MUSIC LIST/CLASSICAL

Tickets from Ticket Centre. Candleriggs 227 551 1 . Tickets from Box Office at Tramway 1 hour before each performance. Saaba are a host ofyoung dancers. mime artists. singers and musicians from Burkina Faso. See Music Preview.

I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. lain Sharp and Phil Waites.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9pm-—1am. £3. Regular three nights a week.

.Edinburgh

I Dalemo Folk Club Kestrel Iiotel. l Iarlaw Road. 8pm. Monthly club. contact 449 5041 . has quiet humour and songs from club favourite lain Mackintosh.

I Blues at Haymarkel Ryries Bar. Haymarket. 9pm. Rootsies Duo in famous corner pub.

I L‘Attache Basement of Rutland l Iotcl. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm— 1 am. Free. Acoustic entertainment from North Sea Gas.

I Number One Music Cellar .\'o 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitar front Freddie Triay.

I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Irish and Scottish instrumental players in the corner by the piano.

FRIDAY 27 Glasgow

I Paris-Africa Club Tramway. 25 Albert Drive.. 8pm. £6 (£3). Any three concerts ticket £12 (£8). Season ticket £21 (£15). Tickets from Ticket Centre. Candleriggs 227 551 1. Tickets from Box Office at Tramway 1 hour before each performance. Sartorialy splendid soukous from Papa Wemba and his band. See Music Preview and Wednesday 25.

I Saaba Kirkintilloch Town Hall. 8pm. £3.50 (£2). A host of young dancers. mime artists. singers and musicians from Burkina Faso in West Africa. See Music Preview and Wednesday 25.

I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn. Bv Uddingston Cross. L'ddingston. ' 9L11.45pm. £1.50. Information0698 429744. All welcome. bring an instrument and a voice.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street.off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Every week. Live bands. Very popular.

Edinburgh

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. West Highlander's favourite. Accordion and guitarin the bar.

I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Alan Hunter.

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SATURDAY 28 Glasgow

I Paris—Africa Club Tramway. 25 Albert I)rive.. 8pm. £6 (£3). Any three concerts ticket £12 (£8). Season ticket £21 (£15). Tickets from Ticket Centre. Candleriggs 227 551 1.Tickcls from Box Office at Tramway 1 hour before each performance. The roots of the blues. from Mali. electric guitarist and singer Ali Farka Toure. See Music Preview and Wednesday 25.

I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchiehall Street. 12.30pm. Live folk music.

I Heilan Jessie's 374 (iallowgatc. Evening. Live acoustic electric band.

I West Coast Band B1ackfriars.45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 12.30pm. Informal. mainly instrumental traditional music in the bar.

I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 2.30—5.30pm and 8.30pm. Live music.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Regular dance.

Edinburgh

I Saaba Assembly Rooms. George Street. 8pm. £4.50 (£2). Ticketsin advance from ()ne World Shop, Cornerstone. basement of St John's Church. West End of Princes Street. A host of young dancers. mime artists. singers and musicians from Burkina Faso in West Africa. See Music Preview and Wednesday 25.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Highlanders' home from home. Accordion'guitar in the bar.

I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Alan Hunter.

SUNDAY 29 Glasgow

I Paris—Africa Club Tramway. 25 Albert Drive. 8pm. £6 (£3). Any three concerts ticket £12 (£8). Season ticket £21 (£15). Tickets from Ticket Centre. Candleriggs 227 551 1. Tickets from Box Office at Tramway 1 hour before each performance. Kabe Mane from Guinea Bissau. See Music Preview and Wednesday 25.

I Black Bull Folk Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 8pm. £2 (Members£l.25). Membership £3.51). Leon Rosselson. superbly acid and funny songwriter. wears his politics on his sleeve.

I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street.off Clyde Street. 2483144. 2—4pm. Free. Regular Sunday afternoon ofmusic.

I Park Bar Argle Street. near Kelvin Park. Session in Highlander's pub.

Edinburgh

I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1 .50. Info 447 6187. Liveacoustic music. Singer John MacCormack.

I L'Ddeon George 1\" Bridge. 8.30pm. American Scottish banjo and fiddle. mandolin and guitar.

I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Traditional songs and contemporay social comment from melodeon player Nancy Nicholson.

I Folk at L‘Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West Iind.

Muckle Ado.

I Absent Friends Fairmilc Inn. Fairmilehead. 8.30pm. Two singers in this electric folk band.

MONDAY 30

I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings.

Edinburgh

I Linlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch. West

Port. Linlithgow. 8pm. Edinburgh based band Seannachie have award winning concertina player Simon Thoumirc among the talents.

I The Refugees Negociants. Bristo Square. 9pm. Polished acoustic rock from original female songwriter in guitar duo. I Session Night The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bartill lam.

I Folk At L'Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Absent Friends have two fine singers in semi—electric folk band.

I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddle.

TUESDAY 1

Glasgow

I Paris-Africa Club 'I'ramway. 25 Albert

I)rive.. 8pm. £6 (£3). Any three concerts ticket £12 (£8). Season ticket £21 (£15). Tickets from Ticket Centre. Candleriggs 227 551 1 . Tickets from Box Office at Tramway 1 hour before each performance. Return visit ofSaaba. 18 young dancers. mime artists. singers and musicians from Burkina Faso in West Africa. See Music Preview and Wednesday 25.

I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Live performers.

Edinburgh

I Penicuik Folk Club Navaar Hotel. Bog Road. 8pm.

I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 830—] 1pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guests.

I FolkAt L‘Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Highly energetic Miro have fiddle. flute. hand drums. guitar and mandolin with songs from Christine Kydd.

WEDNESDAY 2 Glasgow

I 20th Century Music Club City Lights. Clyde Street. 204 3329. Singer songwriter club. All welcome. Pass-the-hat admission. Free drinks to performers. Must be own material.

I Dow‘s Music Club Dow’s Bar. Dundas Street. beside Queen Street Station. 8.30pm. Live music.

I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live music.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne I Iotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50(£1.50). Politics and social comment mix with dessicated humour in Leon Rosselson‘s songs.

I Folk At L‘Attache I..'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Iidinburgh based songwriter Alan Johnston's band.

THURSDAY 3 Glasgow

I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell'I’heatre. 8pm. £2. Wit and withering commentary on contemporary issues from Leon Rosselson.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9pm—lam. £3. Now three nights a week.

Edinburgh

I Blues at Haymarket Ryries Bar. Haymarket. 9pm. Rootsies Duo in famous corner pub.

I FolkAt L'Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. North Sea Gas.

I Green Tree Cowgate. Iivening. Folk scene session. Late bar.

CLASSICAL

FRIDAY 20 Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Academy of Ancient Music give A Plume aml Iiasie Introduction to Practical! .llusickc.

I Stakis Masterclass Guinness Room. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. Admission at door. Free. A demonstration workshop on Baroque woodwind instruments by members ofthe Academy of Ancient Music.

I Milngavie Music Club Milngavie Town Hall. Further info: 956 1572. 7. 15pm. Annual General Meeting and concert.

I BBC 380 Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. I00 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £6/£7 (£3—£4.50). Bruno Weil conducts Mozart‘s Serenade K204 and Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto with Janina Fialkowska as soloist.

Edinburgh

I Scottish Masking Company St Cecilia's Hall. Cowgate. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. Extra date: Saturday 21 . Telemann's l’impittont’ under the direction of Alasdair Nicolson and Michael Burden.

SATURDAY 21

Glasgow

I Opera Study Day Modern Languages Building. University Gardens. Glasgow. Further info: 339 8855 ext 4394 (Enrolment Secretary). 10.30am—5pm. £8 (£6) - includes lunch with wine. Take a close look at Strauss and Salome. Scottish Opera’s latest addition to its repertoire. opening on Wednesday 25.

I Mainly Mozart Festival St Luke‘s Church. Kirk Street. Milngavie. Tickets: 9430312 (Bearsden and Milngavie Arts Guild). 7.30pm. £2 (£1 ). A youth concert by Bearsden and Milngavie Youth Orchestra and Milngavie Young Singers. including the first performance of a special commission.

I Bearsden Burgh Choir St Aloysius Church. Further info. 956 2399. 7.30pm. Vivaldi's Gloria and works by Gabrieli and Victoria.

Edinburgh

I Kevock Choir Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 2281155.7.30pm.

I SCO Oueen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.20—£9.90(£2.20"£3.50). A symmetrical programme working outwards front Bartok through Takemitsu to Beethoven. Barry Douglas plays and directs the Iatter's Piano Sonata No 2 and Piano Concerto No 2. while Oliver Knussen takes care of the rest ofthe evening.

I Scottish Masking Company St Cecilia's IIalI. Cowgate. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen's I Iall Box Office). 7.45pm. See Friday 20 for full description.

SUNDAY 22 Edinburgh

I Friends of Scottish Opera Queen‘s l Iall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 3pm. £2. A talkon Strauss and Salome. to coincide with the first night in Glasgow on Wednesday.

TUESDAY 24 Glasgow

I Merchants Music Merchants' Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 2275511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£1 .50). The Addison Trio with music foroboes and cor anglais by Faulkner. Dubois. Beethoven. Roxburgh and Bach. I Lunchtime Concert llutehesons‘ Hall.

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