MUSIC LIST
SATURDAY 19 Glasgow
0 Mara Glasgow Arts Centre, Washington Street. 8pm. £2 (£1.50). Songstress leads antipodean rock/jazz/folk band, Danny Thompson on bass. See panel.
0 Naltan and Friends Blackfriars, Bell Street. 552 5924. Afternoons. Fiddle and accordion-based session.
a Kells Scott’s Corner, Derby Street, 334 4891. Evening. Irish electric.
0 Sleep the Feet Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening.
Edinburgh
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Music and sesson downstairs till late.
SUNDAY 20 Glasgow
0 Park Bar Argyle Street. Evening. Scots session with the accent on Gaelic music.
0 Buddies Wintersgills, Great Western Road. Evening. Old time American songs and fiddle.
0 Schiehallion Scott‘s Corner, Derby Street. Evening. Guitar duo. popular folk songs.
Edinburgh
0 Alan Jones Youngs Bar, Leamington Terrace. Evening. Weekly acoustic music allsorts. Blue man sings the whites.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. Evening. Music. mainly guitar/songs every night in basement late bar.
MONDAY 21 Glasgow
0 Irish Session Stage Door Bar, Gorbals Street, 4290922. Top Glasgow Irish players.
Edinburgh
0 Miro The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bartill 1am. Irish and other music.
0 Nobody’s Business Bannerman‘s Bar. Evening. Acoustic music that swings. blues with a clarinet and sax. O Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Regular Scottish session with fiddle and accordion, whistle etc.
0 Gill Hewitt Royal Oak, Infirmary Street. Songs with banjo. Late bar.
TUESDAY 22 Glasgow
0 Mo and Co Tron Theatre Bar. Parnie Street. Evening. A girl and two guys. Enthiastically punting out popular folk songs.
0 Steep the Feet Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening. Scottish songs and tunes.
Edinburgh
0 Bannermans Bar Cowgate, Session in the back room, mostly Irish music. Busy.
0 Kenny Grier Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Songs
with guitar. Late bar.
WEDNESDAY 23 Glasgow
0 Clutha Tron Theatre Bar, Parnie
PATRICK STREET
Glasgow has Robin Williamson in two evenings of music, poems, stories and song (25, 26 Sept) and the first visit of two major bands. Mara (19 Sept) are a new wave folk band, originally from Australia, with the eponymous female vocalist, Jim Denley on flute and sax, and Llew Kiek on guitar. They have evolved a multicultural roots music, sophisticated and rhythmically complex dance tunes and songs from Bulgaria, the Middle East, Spain, Italy and even some ‘trad’ Australian. Mara herself has one oi the most beautiful voices around and the group line-up is completed by the legendary bassist Danny Thompson. The ex-Pentangle bassist has a line solo album just released on Hannibal records. The other major event has Patrick Street paired with Dssian in Glasgow (27
Sept) and with harpist Savourna Stevenson in Edinburgh (28 Sept). A recombination of the musical personalities that fired Planxty, The Bothy Band, and De Dannan, Patrick Street has the Ianguorous yet precise liddle of Kevin Burke, Jackie Daly’s punchy two row button box.
Irish guitarist by appointment to Van Morrison—Arty McGlynn, and the airy, decorated and sadness-tainted singing style of Andy Irvine. Their recent first album on Green Linnet slips down easily, not immediately arresting but more and more rewarding on subsequent hearings. The playing is all neat, clean, delicate and first class, but ittakes a stage performance to feel the full power that the foursome can generate on the instrumental side of the Street. (Norman Chalmers)
Street. Evening. Authentic Scots music and song.
0 Nailan Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. Evening. Session. accordion, fiddles, flute . bodhrans and occasional songs.
0 Limited Edition Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening. String band country blues.
0 Cumbernauld Folk Club Cumbernauld Theatre Bar. 8.30pm. 75p (50p).
Edinburgh
0 Edinburgh Folk Club AGM and Singaround Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 8pm. All welcome.
0 Bob Hounslow and Friends Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Singer of popular folk songs.
0 Gavin Anderson Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. Evening. Traditional and contemporary songs.
THURSDAY 24 Glasgow
0 Jane Rothfield/Alan Carr Star Folk Club, Glasgow Society of Musicians, Berkeley Street. 8pm. £1. American fiddler and Scots singer husband on welcome return visit.
0 Red Neck Mothers Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening. Country blues on acoustic guitars.
Edinburgh
0 Session Green Tree. Cowgate. Eveningtill 1am. Fiddles, squeeze boxes, flutes. piano etc. Crowded and convivial.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. Evening till 1.30am. Late night folk basement.
FRIDAY 25 , Glasgow
0 Naifan Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. Evening. Instrumental music from Scotland and Ireland. occasional songs.
0 Steam Jenny Scott‘s (.‘orner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening.
0 Scottish Dance Night Louis' Nite Spot. 1073 Argyle Street. l0pm—2am. Top dance bands and Scottish music on record.
0 Robin Williamson Third Eye Centre. Sauchiehall Street. 9pm. £3.50 (£3). Music on harp. pipes. guitar; songs. poetry and tall tales from the Incredible String Band‘s founder member.
Edinburgh
0 Chilean Pena Cornerstone. Lothian Road. Music. song. dance and poetry. Evening. BYOB and perhaps an instrument.
0 North Sea Gas Platform 1. Rutland Street. Evening. Cheerful. singalong folkies.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9.30pm—l .30am. Late night folk music basement bar.
SATURDAY 26 Glasgow 0 Robin Williamson Third Eye Centre. Sauchiehall Street. 9pm.
£3.50 (£3). See Fri 25.
0 Nailan and Friends Blackfriars, Bell Street, 552 5924. Afternoons. Fiddle and accordion-based session.
0 Kells Scott's Corner. Derby Street. 3344891. Evening. Keltic semi-electric.
o Steep the Feet Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. Evening. Music from Glasgow.
Edinburgh
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Music and session downstairs till late.
SUNDAY 27 Glasgow
0 Patrick Street with Dssian City Halls. 7.30pm. £5 (£3.50). Latest re-alignment of the top Irish folk musicians. Andy Irvine. Jackie Daly among them. See panel.
0 Park Bar Argyle Street. Evening. Gaelic watering-hole. Sunday night session. Accordion and fiddle.
0 Buddies Wintersgills. Great Western Road. Evening. Old time American songs and fiddle.
0 Spindle Scott's Corner. Derby Street. Evening.
Edinburgh
0 Seannachie Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Residency for broad based Scots folk band.
0 Robin Laing Youngs Bar. Leamington Terrace. Evening. Weekly acoustic music allsorts. Singer/songwriter/guitarist with a difference.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. Evening. Music. mainly guitar/songs every night in basement late bar.
MONDAY 28 Glasgow
0 Irish Session Stage Door Bar. Gorbals Street. 429 0922. Top Glasgow Irish players.
Edinburgh
0 Patrick Street with Savourna Stevenson George Square Theatre. 8pm. £4 (£3). Leading Irish group and Scots harpist. See panel.
0 Miro Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bar till lam.
o Nobody's Business Bannermans Bar. Evening. Acoustic music that swings. Tartan blues.
0 Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Regular Scottish session with fiddle and accordion. whistle etc. 0 Gill Hewitt Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. Songs with banjo. Late bar.
TUESDAY 29 Glasgow
0 MD and Co Tron Theatre Bar. Parnie Street. Three stand-up cheerful folk singers.
0 Sleep the Feet Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. Evening. Scottish songs and tunes.
Edinburgh
0 Miro Ensign Ewart. High Street. near the Castle. Evening. Mixed Celtic instrumental music.
0 Bannermans Bar Cowgate. Evening. Session in the back room. mostly Irish music. Busy.
0 Kenny Grier Royal Oak. Infirmary
The List 18 Sept— 1 Oct 29