Music FOLK
Edinburgh FREE Live Music Now: Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. A selection of Scottish tunes from Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller, purveyors of Orkney fiddle, song and step-dance. FREE Uke Hoot The Cuckoo’s Nest, 69 Home Street, Tollcross, uke.hoot@ gmail.com 7.30pm. See Thu 21.
Friday 6 Glasgow ■ Friday Ceilidh Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, City Centre, 221 8866. 8.30pm. £9 (£6). See Fri 22.
Edinburgh FREE Uke Hoot The Cuckoo’s Nest, 69 Home Street, Tollcross, uke.hoot@ gmail.com 7.30pm. See Thu 21. Friday 13
Glasgow ■ Friday Ceilidh Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, City Centre, 221 8866. 8.30pm. £9 (£6). See Fri 22. Edinburgh ■ Ceilidh Club with Teannaich Pollock Halls, Holyrood Park Road. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Join in a lively ceilidh evening where dances are taught on the night, so all abilities are welcome.
Edinburgh Saturday 7
Edinburgh ■ Dubravko Lapaine The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7.30pm. £10. One of the world’s most respected didgeridoo artists. There will also be an all day didgeridoo workshop from 1pm (£80, concessions still tbc). ■ Scots Music Group Ceilidh St Bride’s Centre, 10 Orwell Terrace, 346 1405. 7.30pm. £8 in advance; £10 on the door (£6 in advance; £8 on the door). Fundraising ceilidh of traditional music and dancing. Featuring Da Hooley. Sunday 8
Edinburgh FREE The Wolf Sessions The Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 629 0275. 3pm. See Sun 24. FREE Sunday Folk Singalong Session The West End Hotel , 35 Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 5–8pm. See Sun 24.
Tuesday 10
Glasgow FREE Celtic/Folk Music Session Dukes Bar, 41 Old Dumbarton Road, 339 7821. 8pm. See Tue 26. ■ The Songs of Nick Drake Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, 332 6535. 8pm. £9. Songwriter and music producer Keith James presents a musical tribute to the sublime Mr Drake. Edinburgh ■ Ceilidh Club The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Ceilidh dancing, furious fiddlers and callers to lead you through the steps. Featuring The Jimi Shandrix Experience.
Wednesday 11 Edinburgh ■ Café Voices Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. 7–9pm. £5. A relaxed session of oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song. A special evening of Scots histories with some of the Young Storytellers of Scotland from this year’s Telling Tales competition. FREE Easy Chair The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 7pm. See Wed 27. FREE Open Folk Session The Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 629 0275. 9.30pm. See Wed 27.
Thursday 12
Saturday 14
Edinburgh Sunday 15
Edinburgh FREE The Wolf Sessions The Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 629 0275. 3pm. See Sun 24. FREE Sunday Folk Singalong Session The West End Hotel , 35 Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 5–8pm. See Sun 24.
Monday 16 Stirling ■ Rudeigin Stirling Folk Club, Stirling County Rugby Football Club, Bridgehaugh Park, Causewayhead Road, 01259 218521. Times tbc. £tbc. A five piece line-up from Lanarkshire performing traditional Scottish, Irish and American music together with some of their own material.
Tuesday 17
Glasgow FREE Celtic/Folk Music Session Dukes Bar, 41 Old Dumbarton Road, 339 7821. 8pm. See Tue 26. Edinburgh ■ Ceilidh Club The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 8.30pm. £6. Ceilidh dancing, furious fiddlers and callers to lead you through the steps. Live act tbc.
Wednesday 18 Edinburgh ■ Café Voices Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. 7–9pm. £5. A relaxed session of oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song. Fiona Herbert tells irreverent tales of rescue. FREE Easy Chair The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 7pm. See Wed 27. FREE Open Folk Session The Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 629 0275. 9.30pm. See Wed 27.
Thursday 19
Glasgow ■ Sharon King & the Reckless Angels St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £9 (£7). Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter with a talent for spinning yarns performs her unique acoustic folk. ■ Taigh Ceilidh Ghlaschu Argyll Hotel, 973 Sauchiehall Street, 337 3313. 7.30pm. £2 (£1; students £1). See Thu 21.
Glasgow ■ Adam McCulloch Trio St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Guitar/mandolin/ fiddle trio from Adam McCulloch with Sean Thomson and Rebecca Brown. ■ Taigh Ceilidh Ghlaschu Argyll Hotel, 973 Sauchiehall Street, 337 3313. 7.30pm. £2 (£1; students £1). See Thu 21.
Edinburgh FREE Uke Hoot The Cuckoo’s Nest, 69 Home Street, Tollcross, uke.hoot@ gmail.com 7.30pm. See Thu 21. Crail ■ The Ailie Robertson Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Westgate. 1pm. £6. One of Scotland’s leading young harpists. Part of the Crail Festival.
108 THE LIST 21 Jun–19 Jul 2012
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Thursday 21
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 1pm. Hear light and popular sounds of the Kelvingrove Organ, which is over 100 years old. Sax Ecosse Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland Street, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £9 on the door, £7 in advance (students £5; under 16s free). All-sax ensemble plays Jonathan Dove’s Tuning In, Pierre Dubois’ Quatuor, Joe Cutler’s Screaming 229a (memorably described by Michael Nyman as ‘f***ing brilliant’), Gabriel Pierne’s Introductions & Variations sur un ronde and Thierry Escaich’s Tango Virtuoso. Part of Cottier Chamber Project. David Hamilton: Widor Organ Symphonies St Bride’s Episcopal Church, 69 Hyndland Road, westendfestival.co.uk 7.30pm. £5. David Hamilton performs Widor’s ninth and tenth Organ Symphonies. Part of the West End Festival. FREE Midsummer Reflections: Fauré’s Requiem Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 9pm. Fauré’s Requiem has been called a ‘lullaby of death’; it’s certainly mighty pretty. Performed along with other pieces by the University Chapel Choir, directed by James Grossmith, with organist Kevin Bowyer. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh FREE Brigitte Harris St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Organ recital featuring music by Clérambault, Muffat and Bach.
Stirling The Big Concert: Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Old School Fields, Drip Road, Raploch, 0131 473 2000. 7.45pm. £12 (under 16s £5) in picnic area; grandstand seating £25. A midsummer night spectacular: Gustavo Dudamel leads the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in a special outdoors evening of music to mark the opening of the London 2012 Festival. Plus a special appearance by Big Noise.
Friday 22 Glasgow Daniel’s Beard Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland Street, 357 4000. 6.30pm. £9 on the door, £7 in advance (students £5; under 16s free). The finale of almost a month of chamber music at Cottiers Theatre is Schubert’s mighty Octet D 803. Part of Cottier Chamber Project. FREE BBC SSO: Listen Here! The New World Symphonies: Music from America and Beyond City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. Free but limited to two per application. Ives’ Three Places in New England, boisterous, inspiring and eerily poignant; Bartok’s Violin Concerto; Dvorák’s beloved Symphony No 9 ‘From the New World’; Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Ives’ characteristically innovative The Unanswered Question. Jennifer Koh (violin) is guest soloist and Matthias Pintscher conducts. Booking essential. FREE Couperin Organ Mass St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, 337 2862. 7.30pm. Geoffrey Woollatt (organ) plays Couperin’s Messe de Paroisse in a Festival Organ Mass. Plainsong from Schola Cantorum Mariensis, and
the celebrant is the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth. Part of the West End Festival. Technophonia Unpacked Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Drake Music Scotland plays its part in the Cultural Olympiad celebrations with Oliver Searle’s new piece using cutting edge music technology. Technophonia – subtitled Microscopice Dances – showcases the talents of three young musicians with disabilities.
Edinburgh FREE Bragernes Kirkes Ungdomskor St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Recital by Norwegian church choir. FREE United Church of Chapel Hill Chancel Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 3.30pm. Concert by North Carolinan choir. Dennis Townhill Memorial Recital Freemasons’ Hall, 96 George Street, grandlodgescotland.com 7.30pm. £5. Organ recital by Peter Backhouse, John Kitchen and Simon Nieminski.
Saturday 23
Glasgow Ancuta Nite Adelaides, 209 Bath Street, 248 4970. 7.30pm. £10 (£7). In a concert in aid of a hospice charity working in deprived areas of Eastern Europe, Nite (piano) plays Debussy’s Estampes – Pagodes, Beethoven’s Sonata in D minor Op 31 No 2, and Chopin’s Sonata in B flat minor Op 35 and selected Preludes Op 28. FREE BBC SSO: Listen Here! New German Mythmakers City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. Free but limited to four per application. Free concert of music by contemporary Germans, with the UK premiere of Reimann’s Nine Pieces for Orchestra and Scottish premieres of Henze’s Symphony No 8 and Pintscher’s Reflections on Narcissus, featuring Joshua Roman (cello). Matthias Pintscher himself conducts. As a post-concert treat, Roman gives a coda recital of Bach’s Cello Suite No 3. Edinburgh FREE Tønsberg City Cathedral Girl’s Choir St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Norwegian choir famous for producing great singers. Berkshire Choral Festival Concert Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £9 (children £5). The London Symphony Chorus, Huddersfield Choral Society and Scottish Festival Orchestra play Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor and Handel’s Chandos Anthem No 4 ‘O sing unto the Lord’. Joseph Cullen conducts. Edinburgh Singers: Vivaldi and Byrd St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, 229 1142. 7.30pm. £tbc. The choir performs Vivaldi’s Gloria and Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices and Mass Propers for the Feasts of Saints Peter & Paul. Tinderbox Orchestra The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). The experimental youth orchestra plays original arrangements and compositions, collaborating here with a choir, two guest bands (Broken Records and North Atlantic Oscillation) and Hidden Door arts collective.
Sunday 24 Glasgow FREE BBC SSO: Listen Here! Around the World in 80 Minutes City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 3pm. Free but limited to four per application. Stephen Bell presents and conducts pieces by Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Johann Strauss, Cole Porter, Copland’s rootin’-tootin’ ‘Hoedown’ from Rodeo, a Slavonic folk dance, a tango by Albéniz and more. FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery