MUSIC LIST/FOLK

season include Canada‘s famed Spirit at the West and Swarbrick and company in Whlpoersnapper. Tonight the music is vocals. keyboards. pipes. harp. flute. guitar. and cittern from Edinburgh based Ceol Beg who do the honours and release their new album and cassette. whimsically titled after the tune. Not the Bunny Hop. I Famous Other Band Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm.

I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Ilotel. West End. Waits and Strays;

I Milnes Bar Music Hanover Street. 8.30—11pm. Free.

WEDNESDAY 6 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 Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.

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

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). Tim Lyons and Pinion Valleley are a tremendous duo from Ireland. Songs interspersed with instrumentals on flute and accordion. and all superbly played.

I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm- 1 am. Free. Electric blues and cajun from

Zydeco.

THURSDAY 7 Glasgow

I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Tim Lyons and Finton Valleley are worth going to hear. Superb songs and instrumentals on flute and accordion. steeped in the Irish tradition. played with classy intelligence and warmth.

I Music at Bonhams 194 Byres Road. 337 3424. 9pm. Acoustic set from Michael Keenan.

Edinburgh

I James Galway with the Chieftains Playhouse Theatre. Greenside Place. 557 2590. 7.30pm. £12.50. £10.50. £8.50. Long lasting group of Irish traditional musicians teaming up of late with big name successes in other fields. The musically dire but popular Van Morrison was a Chieftain and this time it‘s the Belfast man with the golden flute. Nice tone. pity about the phrasing and fingering of the non-classical tunes. Still. with Mat Molloy in the Chieftains. you get to hear the finest traditional flute playing around.

I Miro L'Odeon George IV Bridge. 9pm. Fast and furious fiddle. flute guitar. mandolin and bongos. with songs from Christine Kydd.

I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm-1am. Free. Irish and Scottish meet in Malin Head.

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

I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 2204298. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitar from Freddie Tnay.

I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. instrumental music round the piano.

FRIDAY 8 Glasgow

I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn. By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston. 9—11.45pm. £1.50. lnformation0698 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 Guitar Fling Assembly Rooms. George Street. 9pm. £4 (£2). Tickets in advance from Usher Hall Box Office. Lothian Road. 228 1155. Eduardo Niebla and Antonio Forcione are two exceptional talents on guitars both acoustic and electrified. Ear opening. Spring Fling. See Music Preview.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. West Highlanders‘ favourite. Accordion and guitar in the bar.

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

SATURDAY 9 Glasgow

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

I Heilan Jessie’s 374 Gallowgate. Evening. Live acoustic/electric band.

I West Coast Band Blackfriars. 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 weekly dance.

Edinburgh

I Dave Robb and the Film-makers/Kith and Kin Assembly Rooms. George Street. 10pm. £3.50 (£2). Tickets in advance from Usher Hall Box Office. Lothian Road. 228 1155. Roots rock from two ofthe leading exponents. Spring Fling

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Highlanders‘ haunt. Accordion/guitar in the bar.

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

SUNDAY 10 Glasgow

I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 2—4pm. Free. Regular Sunday afternoon ofmusic.

I Park Bar Argyll Street. near Kelvin Park. Session in Highlanders' pub.

Edinburgh

I Asian/Scottish Evening St Brides Centre. OrwellTerrace. Dairy Road. Haymarket. 7pm. £2 (£1 ). Refreshments. Music performed separately and ensemble by musicians including singer Christine Kydd. Punjabi folk group Baniara. songs from Eileen Penman. the NKS Women's Centre. Rukhsana Chowdhury. sitar player Bindra Rangoon from Nepal. the Laurieston Ladies Fiddle Band and tireless terpsichorcan tunesmiths. the Robert Fish Ceilidh Band. I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1.50. lnfo447 6187. Live acoustic music. Tonight Irishman Sean Tirrel sings. plays guitar and mandolin and is joined by Breton bagpipe and sax player Michel Bonomie.

I L'Ddeon George IV Bridge. 8.30pm. American/Scottish banjo and fiddle. mandolin and guitar.

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

I Folk at L'Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End.

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

MONDAY 11

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‘s contemporary folk rooted Alchemy.

I Norman Stewart St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Scots songs with guitar and fine mouth organ playing.

I Session Night The Green Tree.

Cowgate. Evening. Bartill 1am.

I Folk At L'Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes

Street. 9pm. North Sea Gas.

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

TUESDAY 12 Edinburgh

I Famous Other Band Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm.

I Penicuilt Folk Club Navaar Hotel. Bog Road. 8pm. American singer Gordon Bok. I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 8.30—1 1pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guests.

I Folk At L'Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Waits and Strays.

WEDNESDAY 13 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 Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live music.

Edinburgh

I Folk Arts Concert Assembly Rooms.

George Street. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Ticketsin advance from Usher Ilall Box Office. Lothian Road. 228 1155. One ofthe world‘s leading pipe bands. the Scotrail Vale Of Atholl. clarsach and electro-harp song and instrumental duo Sileas and the full keyboards/guitar/cittern/bodhran/ pipes and vocal sound of Ceolbeg. Spring Fling.

I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50(£1.50). The three part harmony and entertaining drolleries of the McCalmans.

I Folk At L’Attache L’Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—lam. Free. Electric blues and cajun from Zydeco.

THURSDAY 14 Glasgow

I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society ()I Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. ()ld Star favourite singer/guitarist Ian Bruce.

I Music at Bonhams 194 Byres Road. 337 3424. 9pm. Acoustic set from Michael Keenan.

Edinburgh

I Lothian Schools Strathspey and Reel Society Queens Hall. (.‘lcrk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £2 (£1 ). Bar and snacks from 6.30pm.

I Folk At L’Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Malin Head.

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

I Green Tree (‘owgate Evening. Folk scene session. Late bar.

I Miro L'Odeon George lV Bridge. 9pm. Fast and furious fiddle. flute guitar. mandolin and bongos. with songs from

Christine Kydd.

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