MUSIC LIST/FOLK
informal songs and music. I Kevin Tait Kitty ()‘Shcas. 50 George IV Bridge. 225 1681. Evening.
SATURDAY 20 Glasgow
I Naifan Blackfriars. BeIIStreet. Merchant City. 552 5924. Afternoon. Instrumental session.
I Red Neck Mother'l‘olbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. I Ceilidh/Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 2483144. 10pm. £2.50. Bar till late.
I Kells Scott's Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening. Permanent Saturday residency for cheerful Irish Scots entertainers.
Edinburgh
I Steve Phillips Old St Pauls IIaIIs.Jeffrey Street. 8pm. £2.50. Brilliant bluesman. See panel.
I Grand Ceilidh Assembly Rooms. George Street. 225 3614. Tickets in advance from Usher Hall Box ()ffice. 228 1 155. Late bar. 7.30pm—lam. £4 (£2). Edinburgh Peace Festival. Zydeco Ceilidh Band.The Sirens. Sileas. Christine Kydd and Andy Thorburn. Danny Kyle. Davy Steele and the Stilletoes.
I Radical Cabaret Assembly Rooms. George Street. 225 3614. Tickets in advance from L'sher Hall Box Office. 228 1155. Late bar. 9pm—lam. £2 (£1 ). Includes Felix Barroeata. Chilean singer'songwriter: Jiveass Bluesand Boogie. See Edinburgh Peace Festival feature.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Eveningtill 1.30am. Late bar. folk basement.
I Kevin Tail Burke And Hare. West Port. Evening. Pub folk artist.
I Denny Swanson Kitty ()‘Sheas. So George IV Bridge. 225 1681. Evening.
SUNDAY 21
Glasgow
I The McCalmans Black Bull Hotel Folk Club. Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. Music starts 8.30pm. Very capable and amusing Scots vocal harmony trio. formed just after the last ice-age. You must have heard of them.
I Session with Pat McNulty Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. From 1pm. Free. All welcome. Pat plays the Iriin pipes.
I Park Bar Argyle Street. nr Kelvin Park. Evening. Session.
I Buddies Wintersgills. Great Western Road. Evening. Old time American songs and fiddle tunes.
I Steam Jenny Scott‘s Corner. Derby Street. Evening. 334 4891.
Edinburgh
I Janet Russell Glench Sessions. Youngs Hotel. Leamington Terrace. ()pm—midnight. Free. Weekly folk/blues and other acoustic music. Ms Russell is back up from London success with sortie new songs.
I Seannachie Green Tree. Cowgale. Evening. Scottish songs and instrumentals from resident band.
I Jim Knight/Colin Ramage/Robin Laing Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. Evening. Three singer guitarists entertain.
I North Sea Gas Rutland IIotel. Rutland Street. 229 3042. 9pm. Singalong.
I Ponobello Ceilidh Band. Maxies Bistro. Nicolson Street. 667 0845. Evening.
MONDAY 22 Glasgow
I Peely Wallys Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening.
I Irish Session Stage Door Bar. Gorbals Street. 429 0922. Evening.
Edinburgh
I Blues Cabaret Assembly Rooms. George Street. 225 3614. Tickets in
FOLK SCENE
Arlo Guthrie was once hugely popular in the times when ‘folk' was acoustic and lyrical. Woody’s son brings his own begotten son Abraham, playing keyboards in the soft pointed country rock backing band, to Edinburgh on the 29th. Nothing so smooth from the Pogues, who belt out their urban Irish stew on the same night. Hurry for the few remaining tickets. June Tabor, see photo, and Dick Gaughan are the two leading solo interpretors of British tolk song. Their performances radiate a confident authority and an unrivalled vocal technique, both bending the melody and phrase to uncanny and frequently mesmerising effect. Edinburgh audiences have a chance to hear Ms Tabor in an intimate setting on the 24th, and Gaughan plays two sets, for two causes, the 25th for the fight to keep Newbattle Abbey College, and on the 19th, the opening concert of the 2nd Edinburgh Peace Festival. The EPF has a good spread of music most nights, but the most dynamic and physically
advance from L'sher Hall Box ()ffice.228 1155. Late bar. 9pm-midnight. £2 (£1 ). Psychoblue. Jiveass. Bulb Cormorant. Poems by Soo Doe. Edinburgh Peace Festival. '
I Nobody‘s Business Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. Evening. Swing blues.
I Miro The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bar till 1am. Instrumental thrash.
I Happy Daze Malt Shovel. Cockburn Street. 2256843. Evening. Pub guitarfolk duo.
I Shore BarThe Shore. Leith. 553 5080. Evening. Live music.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Scottish music session. Bar closes at 11pm. I Gill Hewitt Royal ()ak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Song session with Gill on the banjo.
TUESDAY 23
Glasgow
I Ken Caird Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. Songs from the left.
Edinburgh
I Latin American Pena Assembly Rooms. George Street. 225 3614. Tickets in advance from Usher Hall Box Office. 228 1155. Late bar. Latin American food. Rpm—midnight. £1 (50p). Carlos Arrcdondo. Jose Ceron. Christine Kydd and Andy Thorburn. Edinburgh Peace Festival.
I Northumbrian Pipes Kitty O‘Sheas. 50 George 1V Bridge. 225 1681. Evening. Graham Dixon and friends.
I Colin Damage and Wally Allen Coppers. Cockburn Street. 225 1441. Evening. Singer/guitarists.
I Mirua Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top ofthe High Street. Evening. Acoustic celtic music.
irresistible sounds of the week will be the pan African music of Taxi Pata Pata on the 26th (Glasgow 25th). There are about nine basic members, augmented occasionally by top llight reed and brass players from the band's London base. The big sound is based on Congolese/Zairean soukous rhythms and those unique guitar riffs and runs that have infiltrated the public conciousness over the last few years; the musicians are from Kenya, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe, with a few Europeans, pulled together by Zairean percussionist singer, songwriter and trombonist Nsimba Foguis. ‘We play mainly soukous, but as we are from different places, we've got knowledge of different types of music. ltry to incorporate many kinds of styles, like jazz and a Caribbean feel’. With their colourful and frequent outbreaks of on-stage dancing, they are one of the most intoxicating, danceable bands you’re likelyto hear. (Norman Chalmers)
I Barrie Band Bannermans Bar. Cowgatc. 556 3254. Evening. The Barrie Band. Tunes from fiddle and flute.
I Blue Blazer Bread Street. Evening. Guitarist singers. Jim Knight. Graham McGirk. Sheila McWhirter and Alan Johnston.
I Kenny Grier Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Guitarist singer. Late bar.
I Kevin Tait Kitty ()‘Sheas. George IV Bridge. Evening.
WEDNESDAY 24
Glasgow
I Bill Craig Babbity Bowster. Blackfriars Street. 552 5055. 8pm. £2.50.
I Honest Sam And The Dealers Riverside Club.th Street. 248 3144. 9pm. £2. Bar till late. Country night.
I Naifan Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Instrumental folk music leans heavin to the Irish.
I Ian Bruce Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 5524149. Evening.
Edinburgh
I June Tabor Edinburgh Folk Club. Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 8pm. £2.30 (£1.50). Superb English singer. See panel. I South African Songs and Dances Assembly Rooms. George Street. 225 3614. Free. l-3pm. Food. cafe and bar. Performed by visiting students. Edinburgh Peace Festival.
I Trilogy Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 556 3254. Evening. Ex Seannachie members in new line up.
I Shore Bar The Shore. Leith. Evening. Acoustic music. fiddle. concertina.guitar. piano. accordion in variouscombinations. I Happy Daze Malt Shovel. Cockburn Street. 225 6843. Evening. Pub guitarfolk duo.
I Muckle Ado Kitty ()‘Sheas. 50 George
IV Bridge. 225 1681. Evening.
THURSDAY 25
Glasgow
I Taxi Pata Pata Henry Wood 1 12111. Claremont Street. 7.30pm. £4.50 (£3.50). With The McCluskey Bros. Frontline Music Tour. Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement brings up top British based African band. See panel.
I Marilyn Middleton Pollock Star Folk Club. Glasgow Society ()f Musicians. Berkeley Street. 8pm. £1. Fine Scotland-based American singer.
Edinburgh
I Dick Gaughan/Hamish lmlach Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm-Midnight. £5 (£2.50). With Alison Kinnaird on clarsach. and ceilidb rock from the Wild Cigarillos. Fighting tosave Newbattle Abbey College. See panel. I Christine Kydd and Andy Thorburn Kitty ()‘Shea's. George 1V Bridge. Evening. Andy on keyboards. Christine sings.
I Jim Knight/Colin Ramage/Robin Laing Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. Evening. Three singer guitarists entertain.
I Graham MCGirk Royal ()ak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening till 1.30am.
FRIDAY 26 Glasgow
I Rysy Polish Song And Dance Troupe Fort Theatre. Kenmure Avenue. Bishopbriggs. 772 7054. 8pm. £2.
I Naifan Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. Evening. Fiddle and accordion.
I Schiehallion Scott's Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening. Residentduo. I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. 10pm. £2.50. Bartill Iate. Very popular. don't go late or you risk it being full.
Edinburgh
I Taxi Pata Pata Assembly Rooms. George Street. 225 3614. Tickets in advance from L’sher Hall Box ()ffice.228 1155. Late bar. With support from Swarnptrash. 8.30pm. £4.50 (£3.50). Frontline Music Tour. Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement brings up top British based African band. Edinburgh Peace Festival. See panel.
I Piece Time Cabaret Assembly Rooms. George Street. 225 3614. Tickets in advance from Usher Hall Box Office. 228 1155. Late bar. 8-Iam. £2(£1). JazUques’folk. Swing 88/Nobody‘s Business: Allan Johnston and Sheila MacWhirter. Edinburgh Peace Festival. I North Sea Gas Platform 1.Rutland Street. Evening. Scottish music for tourists.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Eveningtill 1.30am. Late night basement bar with informal songs and music.
I Kevin Tait Kitty ()‘Sheas. 50 George [V Bridge. 225 1681. Evening.
SATURDAY 27 Glasgow
I Naifan Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Afternoon. Traditional tunes and session with fiddles. accordions etc.
I Ceilidh/Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 2483144. 10pm. £2.50. Bartill late.
I Kells Scott‘s Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening.
Edinburgh
I Caledonian Ceilidh Band Walpole IIaII. Chester Street. Ilaymarket. 8pm-Midnight. £1 .50 before 8pm.£2 after. Please don't smoke.
I Denny Swanson Kitty ()‘Sheas. St) George IV Bridge. 225 1681. Evening. I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 5572976. Eveningtill 1.30am. Late nightsinging and drink.
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