CLASSICAL
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Closed for holidays.
Edinburgh
I Singing Kettle Portobello Town Hall. High Street. Portobello. 2.30pm Children‘s show from Cilia and Artie. See let.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm-1am. Free. Folk entertainment from North Sea Gas trio.
I Blues at liayrnarket Ryries Bar. Haymarket. 337 7582. 9pm. Rootsies Duo. I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitar from Freddie Triay with friends and dancers.
I Bannermans Music Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Little Green Monkeys.
FRIDAY 28 ~ Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144.,8pm. £3. Live bands. busy.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. 112 Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Free. Check for details.
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree inn. By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston.
91 1.45pm. £1.50. info: 0698429744. All welcome. bring an instrument and a voice.
Edinburgh
I Singing Kettle Portobello Town Hall. High Street. Portobello. 11am and 2.30pm Children‘s show from Cilia and Artie. See 21st.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion and guitarin the bar.
I Royal Oak lnfirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Upstairs bar with piano. Informal music. Free.
I Ensign Ewart Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free. Songs from Mhairi 0' Reilly.
SATURDAY 29
I Scotia Folk Seotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Free. Danny Deans. Session.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 8pm. £3.
I West Coast Band Blackfriars. 45 Albion
Street. Merchant City. 5525924. 12.30pm. Free. informal. mainly instrumental traditional music in the bar.
I lieilan Jessie's 374 Gallowgate. Evening. Free. Live acoustic/electric band.
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchiehall Street. 332 4374. 12.30pm. Free. Guitar duo.
Edinburgh
I Avalon Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 9pm. Scotland's leading electric folk-rock band.
I Singing Kettle Portobello Town Hall . High Street. Portobello. 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Children‘s show from Cilia and Artie. See Fri 21.
I Gaudi Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Celtic music on guitar and mandolin.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Highlanders‘ haunt. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Royal Oak lnfirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. informal music in the upstairs bar.
SUNDAY 30
Glasgow
I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 8pm. Fortnightly club. info: 776 3289. Closed for holidays.
I Park Bar Argyle Street. near Kelvin
Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders' pub.
Edinburgh
I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1.50. info: 447 6187. Closed for holidays. ’
I Royal Oak lnfirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Old and new songs from melodeon player Nancy Nicholson.
I Folk at L'Attache L‘Attaché. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. 9pm. Free. MuckleAdo.
I Bannerrnan's Music Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Fiddler in the vaults.
HOGMANAY
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8.30—9.25pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings from the folk scene.
Glasgow
I Hogmanay Party George Square. Tickets Free by post from Evening Times. Daily Record or Radio Clyde. and in person from Ticket Centre Candleriggs. Glasgow Tourist Board and outlying City Libraries. Four stages at each side of the square and music from 10.30pm—1.30am. Bands include The Liberties. liumpff Family. Deaf Heights Cajun Aces. Battlefield Band. Ceolbeg. Wallochmor Ceilidh Band and the St Rochs Ceilidh Band. And real fireworks at the bells.
I The Pilgrim Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3123. 9pm. £8.50 (£9.50). Tickets also from any Ticketlink outlet. City ofGlasgow Philharmonic Orchestra. the RTE Chamber Orchestra. the New Glasgow Singers. City of Glasgow Pipes and Drums. plus singers and musicians from lreland. Brittany and Scotland including Liam O‘ Flynn. uillean pipes: George Mcllwham. Highland bagpipes: Helen Davies. harp: and singer Rita Connolly perform a newly revised version ofShaun Davey‘s Celtic suite The Pilgrim as the City of Culture title is handed over to Dublin. See feature.
Edinburgh
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. 229 2665. Free. Scottish music session.
I WEDNESDAY 2
Glasgow
I Halt Folk Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 3321210.9pm. Free. Regularaceordion. fiddle. whistle and bodhrans.
Edinburgh
I Singing Kettle Portobello Town Hall. High Street. Portobello. 2.30pm Children‘s show from Cilia and Artie. See 21$t December.
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 5574792. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). Closed for Christmas. open on the Wed 9 Jan.
THURSDAY 3
I Earthbeat: BBC Radio Scotland 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Closed for holidays.
Edinburgh
I Singing Kettle Portobello Town Hall. High Street. Portobello. 11am and 2.30pm Children's show from Cilia and Artie. See 215t December.
FRIDAY 4 Glasgow I Cellidh Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde
Street, 248 3144. 8pm. £3. Music from the Kelvin Ceilidh Band. Glasgow Tryst
I Scotia Session Seotia Bar. 1 12 Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free.
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree inn. By Uddingston Cross, Uddingston. 9—11.45pm. £1.50. Singaround.
Edinburgh
I Singing Kettle Portobello Town Hall. High Street. Portobello. 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Children‘s show from Cilia and Artie. See Fri 21.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Highlanders' bar. Accordion and guitar.
I Sandy Bells Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Session at the back of the pub.
I Ensign Ewart Lawnmarkct . top of l iigh Street. 9pm. Free. Songs from Mhairi O'Reilly.
SATURDAY 5 Glasgow
I West Coast Band Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Free. Session in the bar with fiddle. accordion. mandolin. penny whistle etc. Afternoon. I Scotla Folk Seotia Bar. 112 Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 3.30pm. Free. The Shebearz
I Ceilidh Riverside. Fox Street. offClyde Street. 2483144. 8pm. £3.
I Heilan Jessie’s 374 Gallowgate. Evening. Free. Live group.
Edinburgh
I Singing Kettle Portobello Town Hall. High Street. Portobello. l lam. 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Children‘s show from Cilia and Artie. See Fri 21.
I Gaudi Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Celtic music on guitarand mandolin.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Aceordion/fiddle/guitar in the bar.
SUNDAY 6 Glasgow
I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull l lotel. Milngavie. 8pm. Fortnightly club. info: 776 3289. Closed for holidays.
I Park Bar Argyle Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715.9pm. Free. Back room session.
Edinburgh.
I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1.50. info: 4476187.
I Music at L'Attache Basement of Rutland iiotci. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. Muckle Ado.
I Ryrie's Bar 1 iaymarket. junction of Dairy Road. 9pm. Free. Songs andtunes from the Full Shillling Band.
I Bannennan's Music Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Fiddler in the vaults.
MONDAY 7
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8.30—9.25pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings from the folk scene.
Glasgow
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchiehall Street. 332 4374. 8pm—midnight. Free. Live music.
I Irish Session Sharkey‘s Bar. 429 3944. beside Citizens' Theatre. Gorbals. 9pm. Free. Top Glasgow lrish musicians from Comhallas.
Edinburgh
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. 229 2665. 9:11pm. Free. Scottish tunes on accordion. whistle and fiddle.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. 9pm. Free. Rhythmic lrish—based traditional music with Miro.
TUESDAY 8 Edinburgh
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. 9pm. Free. Blues from Justthe Very Donkeys.
" WEDNESDAY 9
Glasgow
I 20th Century Music Club City Lights. Clyde Street. 204 3329. Singer/songwriter club. All welcome. Pass-the-lflt admission. Free drinks to performers. Must be own material.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). New Year kicksoff with a rare set from Scotland's innovative rhythm-and-swing outfit. Easy Club.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street.9.3(lpm-1am. Free. Live band.
I Boys irom Brazil Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Duo on guitarand squeeze box.
I Leith Oyster Bar The Shore. Leith. 554 6294. 9pm. Free. lrish and Celtic traditional music from Miro.
THURSDAY 10
I Earthbeat: BBC Radio Scotland 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club, Glasgow Society 01 Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2.
Edinburgh
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland iiotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—iam. Free. Folk entertainment from North Sea Gastrio.
I Blues at Haymarket Ryries Bar. iiaymarket. 337 7582. 9pm. Rootsies Duo. I Bannermans Music Bannermans Bar. (‘owgate. 9pm. Free. Little Green Monkeys. I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitar from Freddie Triay with friends and dancers.
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 21 Glasgow
I 88C 880 Glasgow Royal Concert 1 iail . 2 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3123. 7.30pm. £3—£13.50. The beginning of a deluge of Christmas concerts. this one goes unashamedly for the popular warhorses. Most substantial work is Rachmanintw‘s lush Piano ( 'mtt‘t’rm No 2. topped and tailed by half a dozen shorter offerings from liumperdinck. Prokofiev, Vaughan Williams. Tchaikovsky and liandel. including the inevitable ‘l ialleiujah Chorus‘. Jerzy Maksymiuk conducts.
I Cappella Nova Henry Wood Hall. (‘laremont Street. 227 5511. 7.3(lpm.£6 (£3.50)-’£5 (£3). The choir’s Christmas concert promises ‘great music for singers and brass. candles. balloons. mulled wine and mince pies. audience participation and a unique atmosphere.‘ Oh. and some carols as well.
Edinburgh
I Panda-monium: A Concert iorthe Rainlorests Queen's 1 iail. (‘lerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £3.50 (£2). Classical brass quintet Brass Incorporated join forces
; with swing trio I.e Jau Hot in a fundraiser
for the World Wide Fund for Nature's Rainforests Appeal. (iood music 111 a good cause. Sec preview.
I Solstice Carol Service The Salisbury Centre. 2 Salisbury Road. 667 5438. 8pm.
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