MUSIC LIST
MONDAY 9 Glasgow
0 Shades Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross, 552 4149. Evening.
0 Irish Session Stage Door Bar, Gorbals Street, next to Citizens’ Theatre, 429 0922. Evening. Jimmy McCue, legendary fiddler and
friends.
0 Bopcats Wintersgills, Great Western Road. Evening. Three of Busketeers in the big back room.
Edinburgh
0 Reverend Brothers The Green Tree, Cowgate. Evening. Acoustic instrumental music.
0 Nobody’s Business Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. Evening. Blues in a kilt.
O Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Regular Scottish music session. Bar till 11pm.
0 Gill Hewitt Royal Oak. Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Songs with 5-string banjo. Bar till 1.30am.
TUESDAY 10 Glasgow
0 Steep The Feet Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. Glasgow in song.
0 Naiian Victoria Bar. Stockwell Street. Evening. Fiddle and accordion music.
0 Covers Wintersgills Great Western Road. Evening. Mainly Sixties folk songs.
Edinburgh
0 Sileas Penicuik Folk Club. Navaar Hotel. 8.30pm. £1.50. Scottish Harp duo, songs in Scots, English and Gaelic, and music on an electric Harp.
o Bannermans Bar Cowgate. Evening. Assorted traditional music in the backroom.
0 Kenny Grier Royal Oak, Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Guitar and songs, mainly folk.
WEDNESDAY 11 Glasgow
0 Battlefield Band with Peter Nardlni Mitchell Theatre, Granville Street, 221 3198. 8pm. £4 (£3). See panel.
0 Naiian Halt Bar, Woodlands Road. Evening. Fiddle and accordion at the centre of a traditional instrumental session.
0 Limited Edition Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross, 552 4149. Evening. Folk and country blues.
Edinburgh
0 Black-Eyed Biddy Edinburgh Folk Club, Osbourne Hotel, York Place. 8pm. £1.50. Highly energetic and popular folk band. Good value.
0 Reverend Brothers Shore Bar, Shore. Leith. Evening.
0 Bob Hownslow and Friends Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening.
THURSDAY 1.2 Glasgow
0 Star Folk Club Calton Place. 8pm. £1.
0 Red Neck Mothers Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross, 552 4179. Evening. Blues and Country.
0 Bopcats Wintersgills, Great
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Western Road. Evening. Ex Busketeers with a mix of popular music.
Edinburgh
0 The McCalmans with Madeline Taylor Police Folk Club, York Place. 8pm. £2. Scotland’s three-man harmonisers, just back from the other side of the world, as usual; Ms Taylor has a fine country and blues style.
0 Shetland Fiddlers West End Hotel. Palmerston Place. Evening. Regula scrape and bow.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Music in late night basement bar. Informal sessions.
0 Women’s Traditional Music Session Green Tree, Cowgate. 8.30pm.
FRIDAY 13 Glasgow
0 Steam Jenny Scotts Corner, Derby Street, 334 4891. Evening. Easy entertainment.
0 Naiian Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross, 5524149. Evening. Fiddle and Accordion duo, Irish and Scottish tunes.
Edinburgh
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Late bar and sessions.
SATURDAY 14
Glasgow
0 Zydeco Ceilidh Band Glasgow Arts Centre, Washington Street. 8pm. £2.50 (£1). With support artists. Bar till midnight. Session in bar. The band are semi-electric
Scottish/Louisiana band that keep the feet moving. See panel.
0 Kells Kelvin Park Lorne Hotel, Sauchiehall Street. Evening. Regular acoustic/electric.
O Scotiree La Taniere, Fox Street (off Clyde Street). l—3.30pm. Two guitars and a fiddle. buskers in residence.
0 Ceilidh Riverside, Fox Street. 10pm—2am.
o Diggery Venn Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross, 552 4149. Evening. Valentine‘s Night bash.
Edinburgh
0 irish Traditional Music Workshop Wilkie House, Cowgate. 2pm. Instruction on whistle, accordion, fiddle etc. Dance style. Nominal charge.
0 CND Valentine's Night Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street. 7.30pm—midnight. Tickets: Ticket Centre, Waverley Bridge. £4 (£2). Music in the bar and on stage from Deaf Heights Cajun Aces; Swing ’87; Jiveass Blues and Boogie; Christine Kidd and Janet Russell; Nobody’s Business; Tich Frier; The Furious Fiddlers and compered by Liz Lochhead.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Late session bar.
0 This ’n' That Central Hotel. Royal Terrace. Evening. Folk and Country.
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Ardgowan Hotel, Blackhall Road. 8pm. £1.50.
0 Spindle Scott‘s Corner, Derby Street, 334 4891 . Evening.
Edinburgh
0 Folk/Blues/Jazz Youngs Hotel, Leamington Terrace. 9pm. Free.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Late bar and session.
MONDAY 16
Glasgow
0 Shades Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross, 552 4149. Evening.
0 Irish Session Stage Door Bar, Gorbals Street next to Citizens‘ Theatre, 4290922. Jimmy McCue. legendary fiddler and friends.
0 Bopcats Wintersgills, Great Western Road. Evening. Three of Busketeers.
Edinburgh
0 Reverend Brothers The Green Tree, Cowgate. Evening. Acoustic instrumental music. Session till 1am. O Nobody's Business Bannermans Bar, Cowgate. Evening. Swing blues and funk folk.
0 Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket.
- Evening. Regular Scottish music
session. Bar till 11pm.
O Gill Hewitt Royal Oak. Infirmary Street, 5572976. Evening. Songs with 5-string banjo.
TUESDAY 17
Glasgow
0 Steep The Feet Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross, 552 4149. Evening. Glasgow in song.
0 Naiian Victoria Bar, Stockwell Street. Evening. Fiddle and accordion music.
0 Covers Wintersgills Great Western Road. Evening. Music from the sixties.
Edinburgh
0 Bannermans Bar Cowgate. Evening. Assorted traditional music in the backroom.
0 Kenny Grier Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 5572976. Evening. Guitar and songs, mainly folk.
WEDNESDAY 18 Glasgow
0 Nailan Halt Bar, Woodlands Road. Evening. Fiddle and accordion.
0 Limited Edition Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross, 552 4149. Evening. Folk and country blues.
Edinburgh
0 Hamish Moore and Ken Campbell Edinburgh Folk Club, Osbourne Hotel, York Place. 8pm. £1.50. Small pipes, duets, songs with guitar and tunes on whistles, other bagpipes and cittern.
o Reverend Brothers Shore Bar. Shore, Leith. Evening. Irish session. some Scottish tunes, amiany anarchic.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. Evening. Late bar and general session.
0 Bob Hownslow and Friends Green Tree, Cowgate. Evening.
Glasgow
0 Star Folk Club Calton Place. 8pm. £1.
26 The List 6— 19 February