MUSIC FOLK

Edinburgh

I Music from the Andes George Square Theatre, George Square. 7pm. £3.50 (£2.50). The Scottish Peruvian Friendship Society and the Edinburgh University Students Association present Peruvian group Ago.

I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel, York Place, 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50(£1.50). Singer's Night.

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

THURSDAY 21

I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. Stimulating, ethnically diverse music from round the world. The Queen Margaret Drive bosses have deemed that this, the nation's only world music programme, will end its run at the end ofJune. Letters to the above address in Glasgow will help to change their minds.

I Amlatl Ali Khan Pavilion Theatre, Renfield Street, 332 1846. 7.30pm. £10. £7, £5 (£3.50). Asian Arts Association bring the latest in their line up ofvirtuoso musicians, playing the sarod, a close relation of the sitar.

I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Sax, clarinet and pipes, whistle and recorder from Dick Lee and Hamish Moore.

I Folk Highl Griers, Easterhouse. 8pm. Free. With Steep the Feet and guests. Easterhouse Feis.

I Music at Bonhams 194 Bytes Road, 337

.3424. 9pm. Free. Acoustic set from

Michael iteenan.

Edinburgh

II Miro L‘Odeon George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fast and furious fiddle, flute guitar, mandolin and bongos, with songs from Christine Kytid.

I L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—1am. Free. Irish music, some Scots, from Malin Head.

I Blues at iiayrnarttei Ryn‘es Bar, Haymarket. 9pm. Roolsies Duo in famous corner pub.

I Number One Music Cellar No 1, Chambers Street, 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitar from Freddie Triay.

I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Instrumental celtic music in the corner.

- FRIDAY 22

I Highland Folk Festival Dingwall. Ben

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Glasgow

I Concert and Ceilidh Easthall Residents Hall, Ware Road. 7pm. £1 .50(£1). Over 18. Bring your own refreshments. With Clachnacudden. Easterhouse Feis.

I Irish Dancing Central Hotel. 6pm. £1 .50. Children free. Three-day Glasgow Festival of Irish Dancing attracts 600 entrants including many World Champions. Irish Festival

I Singing Kettle Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld. 2pm and 7pm. £2. Cilia and Artie Trezise with Gary Coupland in the jungle full of songs, jokes, riddles and music. Part of Cumbernauld Theatre‘s Just Kidding children‘s series.

I Ballad Highl Clyde Halls, 318Clyde Street. 8pm. Ticket £3 (includes food). lrish Festival

I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn, By Uddingston Cross, Uddingston. 9—11.45pm. £1.50. Information 0698 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 Evening at Latin American Music Filmhouse, Lothian Road. 8pm. Tickets £2.50, on the door. Classical and contemporary music on the guitar from 6an Ceron and songs of struggle, love and exile from Carlos Arredondo.

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

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

SATURDAY 23

I Highland Folk Festival Dingwall. See Fri 22.

Glasgow

I Whistlebinltles in Concert St Andrew‘s Church, off Saltmarket. 8pm. £3 (£1.50). Tickets from Ticket Centre Candleriggs, 227 5511. Monthly concert by the long lived band comprising harp, fiddle and pipes, with flute, concertina and drum, and representing the breadth ofauthentic Scottish music and song in considered arrangements.

I Concert and Ceilidh Bishoploch Tenants Hall, Auchingill Road. 7.30pm. £1.50 (£1). Over 18. Bar. With Clachnacudden. Easterhouse Feis.

I Irish Dancing Central Hotel. 9am. £1 .50. Children free. Three-day Glasgow Festival of Irish Dancing attracts 600 entrants including many World Champions. irish Festival

I Singing Kettle Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld. 2pm and 7pm. £2. Cilia and Artie Trezise with Gary Coupland in the jungle full of songs, jokes, riddles and music. Part of Cumbernauld Theatre‘s Just Kidding children‘s series.

I Play and Ceilidh St Bride‘s Hall, Motherwcll. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). One act play based on a wake, followed bya ceilidh. Irish Festival ,

I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar, 292 Sauchiehail Street. 12.30pm. Free. Guitar duo.

I Hellan Jessie’s 374 Gallowgate. Evening. Free. Live acoustic/electric

band. I West Coast Band Blackfriars, 45 Albion

Street, Merchant City, 552 5924. 12.30pm. Free. Informal, mainly instrumental traditional music in the bar.

I Scolia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 2.30-5.30pm and 8.30pm. Free. Live music.

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

Edinburgh

I Gaudl Shore Bar, The Shore, Leith. 9pm. Free. Organic music on fiddle and mandolin from a subset of Miro.

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

I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Alan ilunter.

SUNDAY 24

I Highland Folk Festival Dingwall. See Fri 22.

Glasgow

I Ali-Britain Fleadh Cardinal Newman School, Bellshill. All day from 9am. Winners go forward to the AlI~Ireland later in the year. A feast of Irish music, with competitions for fiddle, flute , whistle, pipes, bodhran, harp, accordion, concertina etc, and of course singing. Irish Festival.

I lrlsh Dancing Central Hotel. 9am. £1 .50. Children free. Three day Glasgow Festival of Irish Dancing attracts 600 entrants including many World Champions. irish Festival

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

I Park ear Argyll Street, near Kelvin Park. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders‘ pub.

Edinburgh

I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1.50. Info 447 6187. Blues fromthe Kingdom. The return of Fife's mature electric blues band The Elevators.

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

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

I Folk al L'Attache L‘Attache, basement of Rutland Hotel, West End. 9pm. Free. Live group.

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

MONDAY 25

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

Glasgow

I Music Session Sharkey‘s Bar, Gorbals. 9pm. Free. Irish Festival

I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar, 292 ' Sauchiehail Street. 8pm—midnight. Free. Music/ceilidh with Ciach-na Cudden.

Edinburgh

I Linlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch, West Port, Linlithgow. 8pm. CauiherFalr.

I Rod Paterson St James Oyster Bar, Calton Road. 9pm. Free. Traditional and modern songs with guitar from Easy Club vocalist.

I Session Highl The Green Tree, COWgate. Evening. Free. Bar tiII 1am.

I Folk Al L'Attache L‘Attache, basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Absent Friends. semi—electric folk band.

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

TUESDAY 26 Glasgow

I Folk Concert Bennigcns Bar, Easterhouse. 8pm. £1 .50. Songs and tunes. traditional and contemporary, from Nottingham band Kelly‘s Heroes, Glasgow‘s Sleep the Feel and singer Alex Fracltleton. Easterhouse Feis.

I PaisleyArts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street, 887 1010. 8pm. Ray and Jerry.

Edinburgh

I Club Mhor Merlin, 168 Morningside Road, 447 4329. 8pm. £1 .50 (£1 members). Tickets on the door. Acoustic music venue has weekly concert with support performers. This week‘s main band is talented Edinburgh~based Irish music group Malin Head, with Brendan and Kevin Hyde on flute and fiddle, and Lorraine Jordan on vocals, augmented on this occasion by two fine Dublin musicians.

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

I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar, Hanover Street. 8.30—11pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars, visiting musicians and special guests.

I L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, West End. 9pm. Free. New wave ceilidh band Eat the Seats.

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Glasgow

I Kelly's Heroes The Casbah, Easterhouse. 8pm. Free. Nottingham Irish song and instrumental band. Easterhouse Feis.

I irish Concert Couper Institute, 86 Clarkston Road. 8pm. £2 (£1). Traditional music with the Irish Minstrels branch of Comhaltas. Irish Festival

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. Free. Live music.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel, York Place, 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50(£1.50). Spectacular Irish harp fused with acoustic blues and ragtime guitar and mandolin, played by Maire Ni Chathasaigh and Chris Newman.

I Folk Al L’Attache L‘Attache, basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—1am. Free. Electric blues and cajun from Zydeco.

THURSDAY 28

I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme under threat. See Thurs 21.

Glasgow

I Oyster Bend King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 9pm. Consistently topping the popularity polls in the English scene, full blooded roots/rockers make the journey north. See Music Preview.

I lrish Concert Pavilion Theatre. 8pm. £6.50 (£5.50). With Irish star Paddy Reilly and Glasgow-Irish Clachnacudden. Irish Festival.

I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Irish singer and uiIlean piper, heard at the recent Edinburgh Folk Festival. Tomas Lynch.

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

Edinburgh

I Folk Al L‘Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Great bunch ofsingers and players from Newcastle area Dab Hand.

I Blues at Haymarket Ryrics Bar. IIaymarket. 9pm. Roolsies Duo in famous corner pub.

I Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Free. Folk scene session. Late bar.

I Miro L'Odeon. George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fast and furious fiddle. flute guitar. mandolin and bongos. w ith songs from

Christine Kydd.

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