FOLK & WORLD MUSIC

FOLK WORLD

FRIDAY 22 Glasgow

I John Renboume/BIo—na-Gael Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 221 4526. 8pm. Bar. Famedinfluential acoustic guitarist, late of Pentangle. ably supported by Scottish traditional and contemporary musicians. instrumental. vocal and all-female.

I Ceilidh Night The Ferry. Clyde Place. 429 2683. 8pm. Bar. £3. With Fraser McGlynn and friends.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands. busy.

Edinburgh

I Slow Folk Club Royal Hotel . Stow. Phone Stow 247. 8pm. £3 (£1 .50). Fortnightly club half an hour south on the A7. Tonight. high quality Latin-American guitar music and song. from Carlos Arredondo and GaloCeron

SATURDAY 23 Television

I Push Out The Boat BBC Scotland. 9.20—10pm. New series. filmed on board the Renfrew Ferry and hosted by ace fiddler and accordionist Aly Rain and Phil Cunningham with weekly guests including Mary Black. John Martyn. Eddie Reader CIC.

Glasgow

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands. busy.

Edinburgh

I Scot Bop Wilkie House , Cowgatc. 8pm. . Late bar. £3. New series of monthly

' ccilidh dances featuring the ccilidh-funk of the Robert Fish Band.

I Ceilidh Walpole Hall. Chester Street. Music from the International Ceilidh Band. No smoking. BYOB. £2 before 8pm. £2.50 aftcr8pm.

I John Renboume Pleasance Theatre Bar. the Pleasance. 8pm. £4 (£3). Glencairn Music is promoting this concert by one of the seminal acoustic guitarists of British music. famous for his work in Pentangle and his duets with BertJansch.

SUNDAY 24 Glasgow

I Concert for Norman Buchan Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 1 SauchiehallStreet. 7.30pm. £6. From box office and Ticketline outlets. Memorial concert for the MP and folk music proselytiser brings together a host of performers. Actor Bill Paterson comperes and there will be a personal tribute from playwright Bill Dryden. Confirmed at this moment are Stramash. Andrew Hunter. Gordaanna McCullough, Enoch Kant, and singers Hamish Imlach and Cilia Fisher. Many more singers and instrumentalists on the night. I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 956 2291 . £2. 8.30pm. Original member of the Foundry Bar Band. much loved Tayside songwriter singer and guitar player Jim Reid.

Edinburgh

I Glencairn Music Glencairn Hotel, 19 Royal Circus. Stockbridge. 9pm. £1.50. Acoustic folk, blues and jazz venue.

MONDAY 25 Linlithgow

I Linlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch lnn, West Port. 8.30pm. Return visit from club singer lan Bruce.

WEDNESDAY 27 Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Top guitar picking duo John James and Eddie Walker in their bluesy. acoustic rock and roll persona Carolina Shout.

THURSDAY 28

Glasgow

I 8181' Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside MitchellTheatre. 8pm. £2. Dick Gaughan needs little introduction to folk audiences anywhere in the world. Scotland‘s songwriter. committed socialist. passionate interpreter of traditional song and great guitarist.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street.off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands.

I Wollstone Madisons. Playhouse. Greenside Place. 8pm. Tickets from P. Gallacher on 225 4544 or C. Macaulay on 657 3379 or on the door. Benefit for Who Cares? the charity and support organisation run by volunteers for the young homeless of Scotland. Wollstone. who are driving down from Easter Ross for the gig. are Scotland‘s leading folk/rock band. with superb fiddler Duncan Chisholm in a six-man line-up that includes pipes. keyboards and electric guitars. Noted traditional singer Gordeana McCulloch is also on the bill.

FRIDAY 1 Glasgow

I Vesali Muzyky Renfrew Ferry. Clyde Place. 8pm. £5. Tel 429 2683. 8pm. Bar. £5. Highly professional folk ensemble in the Eastern European style. Ukrainian costume, exotic instruments. a dancer and magician.

I Cellldh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands. busy.

Edinburgh

I Peace Cellldh Assembly Rooms. George Street. 8pm—midnight. Bar. £3.50(£2.50). Amnesty international 30th Anniversary appeal. Music on box. fiddle and banjo from Freeland Barbour and the boys in the Occasionals. First event of the Peace Festival.

SATURDAY 2 Television

I Push Out The Boat BBC Scotland. 11-11.20pm. Filmed on board the Renfrew Ferry and hosted by ace fiddler and accordionist My Gain and Phil Cunningham with weekly guests including Mary Black, John Martyn, and Eddie Reader.

Glasgow

I Concertina Workshop Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 2214526. 2—4pm. £2 (£1). Series oftraditional music

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Craig McMurdo in That Swing Thang

March 8 The John Rae Collective and Rachaka

March 15 The Tommy Smith Group featuring Alec Shaw

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