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Paisley ■ Dougie MacLean Spiegeltent, County Square, 0300 300 1210. 9.30pm. £18 (£16). Scotland’s foremost folk/roots troubadour. Part of The Spree.
Saturday 11
Edinburgh ■ Balerno Music Festival Various Venues, Balerno, 07710 703372. Times vary. £tbc. See Wed 24. Bathgate ■ Solid Gold Country Legends Regal Community Theatre, 24–34 North Bridge Street, 01506 630085. 7.30pm. £17.50. A must for all straw-chewin’, hoe-downin’ country nuts, with a mix of old and new country hits fro your delectation.
Falkirk ■ Skerryvore Falkirk Town Hall, West Bridge Street, 01324 506850. 8pm. £15. Expect blazing bagpipes, accordion and fiddle mixed with standard rock instruments as the ‘boy band of Scottish traditional music’ play live.
Kelso ■ Kelso Country and Western Festival Springwood Hall, Springwood Park, 01324 871042. Times vary. £21–£26 for a single day ticket; £37–£42 for a two-day ticket; £51–£56 for a three- day ticket (children £8–£15; under 5s free). See Fri 10. Paisley ■ Rura Spiegeltent, County Square, 0300 300 1210. 8.30pm. £10 (£8). Energetic contemporary folk from up and coming Scottish musicians. Part of The Spree.
Sunday 12
Edinburgh ■ Balerno Music Festival Various Venues, Balerno, 07710 703372. Times vary. £tbc. See Wed 24. Kelso ■ Kelso Country and Western Festival Springwood Hall, Springwood Park, 01324 871042. Times vary. £21–£26 for a single day ticket; £37–£42 for a two-day ticket; £51–£56 for a three- day ticket (children £8–£15; under 5s free). See Fri 10.
Paisley ■ Merrymouth Spiegeltent, County Square, 0300 300 1210. 8.15pm. £12. Three-piece folk outfit featuring Ocean Colour Scene’s vocalist Simon Fowler. Part of The Spree.
Tuesday 14
Glasgow ■ Rod Picott Woodend Tennis & Bowling Club, 10 Chamberlain Road, 959 1428. 8pm. £12. One of Nashville’s best singer/songwriters. And no mistakin’. Edinburgh ■ Dallahan Victoria Park Hotel, 221 Ferry Road, 454 2060. 7.30pm. £tbc. Some sweetly fresh arrangements of original music and traditional Celtic song . ■ Ceilidh Club Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 560 1581. 8pm. £6. The Full Scottish play live.
Wednesday 15 Glasgow ■ Ceilidh Dance Classes St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £5.50. See Wed 24.
2458. 8–11pm. £10 (£9; members £7). See Tue 30. Paisley ■ Rab Noakes: Up Close Paisley Arts Centre, New Street, 0300 300 1210. 7.30pm. £12 (£10). The prolific songwriter steps out without his full band to perform solo folk with just voice and guitar. Part of The Spree.
Thursday 16 Paisley ■ Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson Spiegeltent, County Square, 0300 300 1210. 8pm. £8.94. See Thu 9.
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Thursday 18
Glasgow Amici Cello Trio Merchants House of Glasgow, 7 West George Street, 221 1876. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; students & children £4). Sonia Cromarty, Fiona Dippie and Helen McVey play music for three cellos.
Edinburgh FREE Rudsambee Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. 6pm. Choral music from Ieuan Wyn, Tormis, Bartók and Monteverdi. North Berwick Tenebrae Gilmerton House, Athelstaneford, 01620 880342. 7.30pm. £28. Madrigals by Byrd, Gibbons, Morley, Weelkes, Wilbey and others, plus as selection of keyboard music by the likes of Byrd, Purcell, Handel, Blow, Philips and Kinloch. Part of Lammermuir Festival.
Friday 19
East Linton François Leleux Prestonkirk Church, Preston Road, francoisleleux.com 7.30pm. £10–£20 (students £5–£15; schoolchildren £5–£10). The master oboist plays works by Poulenc, Vaughan Williams and Dutilleux as well as Mozart’s Quintet K452. Guests are Ben Johnson (tenor), Maximiliano Martín (clarinet), Peter Whelan (bassoon) and Eric Lesage (piano). Lammermuir Festival. Perth Dunedin Consort: Acis and Galatea St John’s Kirk, St John’s Place, 01738 633192. 7.30pm. £15.00 (£10.00; children £10.00). The award-winning ensemble performs Handel’s oratorio in its original 1718 version. John Butt directs.
Saturday 20
Edinburgh FREE Andrew Caskie Palmerston Place Church, 12 Palmerston Place, 220 1690. 7.30pm. Organ music by Hartmann, Corrette, Carreira, Renzi, Franck, Wammes and Elgar. Dundee Scottish Ensemble: Essential Ensemble Caird Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7.30pm. £12. Works for strings by Antonin Dvorák and Antonio Vivaldi.
Edinburgh ■ Ben Sands Edinburgh Folk Club, Cabaret Bar, 60 The Pleasance, 650 Haddington BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra St Mary’s Parish Church,
The Sidegate, 01620 829354. 7pm. £15–£25 (students £10–£30; children £7.50–£12.50). Christine Brewer sings Strauss’ Four Last Songs, and Martyn Brabbins conducts Wagner and Elgar. Lammermuir Festival. Bartosz Woroch Holy Trinity Church, 01620 823738. 9.45pm. £12 (students £7; schoolchildren £6). Solo works for violin by Bach, Bartók and Ysaÿe, played by candlelight. Lammermuir Festival. North Berwick Steven Osborne plays Messiaen Abbey Church, High Street, stevenosborne.co.uk 2.30pm. £15 (students £10; schoolchildren £7.50). Steven Osborne plays Messiaen’s Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. Lammermuir Festival.
Sunday 21
Edinburgh FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Voiceworks performs choral music by Mozart, Morricone, Sullivan and others. Stenton Hebrides Ensemble Stenton Parish Church, Main Street, hebridesensemble. org.uk 3pm. £15. Oliver Knussen’s Cantata Op 15 and Mozart’s Serenade in B flat K361 ‘Gran partita’, with special guest François Leleux. Lammermuir Festival.
Tuesday 23
Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh Quartet Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 4336. 1.10pm. Quartets by Helen Grime and Shostakovich. Wednesday 24
Glasgow Sonic Bothy City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8pm. £6. New music from ensemble devoted to including musicians with learning disabilities in the process of creating contemporary music. Edinburgh Balerno Music Festival Various Venues, Balerno, 07710 703372. Times vary. Prices vary. This community-run music festival returns for a second year with folk and classical concerts and workshops. FREE Will Pickvance: Piano Speak St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Will Pickvance presents improvisations and repartee.
Thursday 25 Glasgow BBC SSO: Shostakovich 10 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11.50–£24.50. Donald Runnicles conducts Mussorgsky, Scriabin’s Piano Concerto with soloist Barry Douglas, and Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony (see preview, right). Scottish Opera: Verdi’s Macbeth Eastwood Park Theatre, Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4956. 7.30pm. £14 (under 26s £5). Dominic Hill’s production features David Stephenson, Shuna Scott Sendall and Marie Claire Breen. Emmanuel Joel- Hornak conducts.
Friday 26
Glasgow ✽ The Beethoven Project: Early Beethoven City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15. Llyr Williams (piano) and the Elias String Quartet present early sonatas and quartets by Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 2 Nos 1–3 and Quartets Op 18 Nos 2 & 3. Edinburgh FREE Tanino Duo Reid Concert Hall,
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University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 4336. 1.10pm. Fernando Sánchez (guitar) and Santiago Álverez (chromatic harmonica) plays Argentinian music.
Saturday 27
Beethoven’s Circle City Halls, Glasgow ✽ The Beethoven Project: Candleriggs, 353 8000. 4pm. £7.50. Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin/ speaker), Neil Heyde (cello) and Aaron Shorr (piano) play works by Beethoven and his friends Anton Reicha, Andreas & Bernhard Romberg and Ferdinand Ries. ✽ Speculum Orum: Shackled to the Dead Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. 7–8.15pm. £6 for Saturday pass; £14 for weekend pass. A requiem for piano and voice set in the hold of a slave ship, performed and composed by multi-talented countertenor/artist/pianist M Lamar. Part of ARIKA14 Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way.
Middle Beethoven City Halls, ✽ The Beethoven Project: Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £15. Llyr Williams (piano) and the Elias String Quartet play: Sonata No 12 in A flat, Op 26; Sonatas Op 27 No 1 ‘Moonlight’ and No 2 ‘Quasi una fantasia’; and Quartet No 7 in F, Op 59 No 1.
Sunday 28
Glasgow ✽ The Beethoven Project: Late Quartets City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 4.30pm. £10. The Elias String Quartet plays Beethoven’s String Quartet No 12 in E flat Op 127 and No 13 in B flat Op 130. ✽ The Beethoven Project: Sonatas City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10. Llyr Williams (piano) plays Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas. Beethoven’s Last Three
Edinburgh BBC SSO: Shostakovich 10 Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 4pm. £11–£27. See Thu 25. FREE St Giles’ at Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 6pm. Cantica Alba performs music from Britain and the Baltic, by Byrd, MacMillan and Chilcott as well as Mäntyjärvi and Sisask.
Tuesday 30
Glasgow FREE Choral Contemplations Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, 330 5419. 6–7pm. Cristobal de Morales: Missa Mille Regretz. Edinburgh FREE Uli Fenner, Robin Mason, Peter Evans Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 4336. 1.10pm. Schubert’s Piano Trio in E flat D 898. ✽ Alison Balsom Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7pm. £19.50–£32.50. Trumpet virtuoso plays music from Handel to Gershwin, as well as Stravinsky, Piazzolla, Purcell, Cole Porter and Debussy.
Wednesday 1 Glasgow sound lab presents Edit-Point City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £6. New electroacoustic music.
Thursday 2 Glasgow Athenaeum Winds Merchants House of Glasgow, 7 West George Street, 221 1876. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; students & children £4). Wind quintet world première of a piece by Oliver Searle.
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