JAZZ MUSIC
The excellent Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra alternate with the Tim Barella Big Band.
I Ah Um Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, Merchant City. 552 5924. 9pm. Free. Electric quintet.
I George _Penman's Janmen Curlers, 256 Byres Road, 334 1284. 8pm. Free. Traditional.
Mondays
I Bobby Deans Quartet Curlers. 256 Byres Road, 334 1284. 8.30pm. Free. Mainstream, plus guests.
I Kit Carey's Jazz Band 147 Club, Cheapside Street, off Broomielaw, 221 0271. 9pm. Free. Traditional.
Tuesdays
I Bobby Wishart Group Halt Bar. 160 Woodlands Road, 332 1210. 9pm. Free. Bop to fusion.
Wednesdays
I Sandy Taylor and John Henry Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 8.30pm. £1. Mainstream.
Thursdays
I Another Hairdo Mitchell’s. North Street, 204 4312. 9pm. Free. Mainstream to modern duo.
FOLK & WORLD
Dates listed below are for one-oil shows: see separate section for residencies. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Pertonnances will be listed, provided that details reach our otilces at least one week belore publication. Folk and World Listings compiled by Norman Chalmers.
FRIDAY 9
FRIDAY 9 Glasgow
I lieuchl Arches Theatre. formerly Glasgow’s Glasgow, off Jamaica Street. 10pm. £4 (£3). Music by Scotch Mist. Tower Promotions presents a summer series of Ceilidhs with Attitude.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4. Live bands.
SATURDAY 10 Glasgow
I European Pipe Band Championship Gourock Park, Gourock. 10am. Prizegiving 5pm. £2 (£1).
I The Moonshiners Cumbernauld Theatre, Kildrum, Cumbernauld, 0236 732887. Theatre Bar. 8pm. £1.50. Bluegrass and country from Ian Mairs and Jimmy Moon. I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street. off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm , music at 9pm. £4. Popular venue.
SUNDAY 11 Glasgow
I Balalalka Music and Dance Ensemble and Glasgow Street Band George Square and Buchanan Street. Midday-2pm. Free. Fifteen-strong ensemble from Glasgow‘s twin city of Rostov-on-Don play all sizes of the three-string instrument. With them are the twenty members of the new Glasgow Street Band formed last year with London‘s anarchic Happy End.
' MONDAY12
Glasgow
I Balalaiite Music and Dance Ensemble George Square and Buchanan Street. Midday-2pm. Free. See Sun 11.
I Concert in the Park Glasgow Green.
1pm. Free. Diodum are musicians and dancers from Brazil, also London‘s radical folk and brass Happy End. the Balalallta Ensemble, Avantl and Street Biz Roadshow.
TUESDAY 13
Glasgow
I Balalailta Music and Dance Ensemble and Glasgow Street Band George Square and Buchanan Street. Midday—2pm. Free. See 1 1th.
WEDNESDAY 14 Glasgow
I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble and Glasgow Street Band George Square and Buchanan Street. Midday—2pm. Free. See 11th.
I The Attic The Studio, Shuttle Street, Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions, £2.50 everyone else. Information from organiser Danny Kyle. 887 9991.
THURSDAY 15 Glasgow
I Balalaiita Music and Dance Ensemble and Glasgow Street Band George Square and Buchanan Street. Midday-2pm. Free. See 1 1th.
I Eric Bogle Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Sold out. Star Folk Club presents the Scots/Australian songwriter. See Festival preview.
FOLK & WORLD
The following details are for regular weekly dates: see main listings ior one-oil shows. Gigs are listed by city, then by day. Residencies will be listed. provided that up-to-date details are supplied to us. Felix and World Residencies Listings compiled by Norman Chalmers.
GLASGOW Fridays
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal Irish/Scottish instrumental session.
I Scotla Folk Scotia Bar, 112 Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. Live groups.
Saturdays
I Victoria BarStockweli Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Irish/Scottish instrumental session.
I Scotla Folk Scotia Bar, 112 Stockwell Street,5528681.13th,3.30pm,The Broads; 20th. 3.30pm, Jim Couza. Free.
Sundays
I Babblty Bowsiers Blackfn'ars Street. Merchant City. 9pm. Free. Informal music in the bar.
I Session Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. 2—4pm. Free. Regular afternoon of songs and music.
I Park Bar Argyll Street. near Kelvin
Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Music in the back bar.
Mondays
I Johnny Scobies London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Live music. I Masterclass with Jean Redpaih BBC —i Scotland, 1040-1 1 . 10pm. Scots singing. 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.
I Irish Session Sharkey‘s Bar. beside Citizens’ Theatre, Gorbals. 429 3944. 8.30pm. Free. The McCues and other top Glasgow Irish musicians.
Tuesdays
I Scotla Folk Club Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 8.30pm. Free. 30th. Height of Nonsense.
I Johnny Scobies London Road. Glasgow Cross, 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Live music. I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. Free. Live soloists. occasional groups. 8pm.
I Glasgow Songwriters Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Singer/songwriters take the floor.
Wednesdays
I Scotla Folk Club Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 8.30pm. Free. 3lst. Melanie Hamid and Ollie Blanchilower. tremendous jazzy vocals. guitar and bass.
I Johnny Scobies London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Live music.
I Halt Bar Woodlands Road. 9pm. Free. Fiddles. flutes. accordions. banjos etc.
Thursdays
I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
CLASSICAL mim-
Concerts are listed by date. then by city. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.
SATURDAY 10 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Ilall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (OAPs £2/children. students. unemployed. disabled free). Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra gets the 4th Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras off to a flying start with The Planets -Jupiter and Mars. Dvorak's Symphony No 8 and the Ode to Freedom by the American composer. Downcy.
SUNDAY 11 Glasgow
I Sunday Promenade Concert Art Gallery and Museum. Kclvingrovc. 357 3929. 2.30pm. Free at door. Informal organ recital.
MONDAY 12 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival at British Youth Orchestras Stevenson llall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (OAPs £2./children. students. unemployed. disabled free). Northern ireland Symphony joins up with Huddersfield Choral Society Youth Choir for a varied programme of instrumental and choral works by Smetana and Mozart along with The Violet Flume by Derek Bell. harpist with The Chieftains. who takes the solo harp part in a guest appearance.
TUESDAY 13
Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson llall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (OAPs £2./children. students. unemployed. disabled free). Another challenging and attractive programme in this successful festival. licreford Young People‘s Orchestra plays Mozart. Gordon Jacob. Finzi. Weber and Beethoven with Poulenc's C(nit‘t’rlufur ()rgan. Timpani and Strings being one of the highlights.
WEDNESDAY 14 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Iiail. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (OAPs £2./children. students. unemployed. disabled free). More Mozart from some of Britain’s best young musicians. Bromley Youth Chamber Orchestra play his Diverrimento K138 along with music by Malcolm Arnold. Suk. Elgar's Serenadefar Strings and Salurnaliu by Malcolm Binncy.
THURSDAY 15 ' Glasgow
I Thursday Evening Promenade Concert Art Gallery and Museum. Kclvingrove. 357 3929. 7pm--8.30pm. Free. Music for classical guitar played by Robert Phillips. I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Iiall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (OAPs £2./children. students. unemployed. disabled — free). Philip White conducts Thames Youth Symphony Orchestra in the (Tel/0 (‘nneerm by Saint-Saens. Beethoven's Symphony .V02 and the overture Ruy Bias by Mendelssohn.
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