FOLK & WORLD MUSIC
Edinburgh
I Charity Folk Concert Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8pm. £5. With Olck Gaughan, Ceolbeg. and Dave Whyte. See preview.
I New eathgate Folk Club Fergies, Hopctoun Street, Bathgate, 0506 54151. Opening night of new Folk Club has Geberlunzie.
WEDNESDAY 11 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwcll Street, 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Free.
I The Attic The Studio, Shuttle Street, Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions, £2.50 everyone else. information from organiser Danny Kyle, 887 9991.
Edinburgh
I Dab Hand Cafe Royal Upstairs. West Register Street, 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Edinburgh Folk Club. Songs, tunes and fine fiddling from north-east England. Last EFC concert ofthe year.
THURSDAY 12 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Davey Steele. singer from Ceolbeg.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwcll Street. 8.30pm. Free.
FRIDAY 13 Glasgow
I Apu Royal Scottish Academy ofMusic and Drama, 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057 8pm. £6 (£4). Peruvian group. See Edinburgh, Fri 6.
I Scotia Bar Stockwcll Street. 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4.
SATURDAY 14 Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4. Callum Ian McCorguodale. Glasgow Tryst
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwcll Street, 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Caledonian Ceilidh Band Walpole Hall, Chester Street. £2 before 8pm, £3 after 8pm. Performers free. Ceilidh Dance, bring your own drink, and please don’t smoke.
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I Christmas with the Clarsach Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 3pm. £3 (£2). Presented by the Edinburgh Clarsach Society. Favourite carols. George Watson’s Primary School Choir, and a Heavenly Host of Harps (sic).
M 0 N DAY 1 5 Ltnltthgow I ealemo Road Show Black Bitch Inn, West Port, Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Members £2, non-members £2.50, concessions £1.50. Linlithgow Folk Club
Glasgow
I Fiddle Workshop Glasgow Arts Centre, Washington Street, 221 4526. 7.30—9.3opm.
WEDNESDAY 18
Glasgow I The Attic The Studio, Shuttle Street,
Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions, £2.50 everyone else. information from organiser Danny Kyle, 887 9991.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royal Upstairs, West Register Street, 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Closed for Christmas. Reooens 8 Jan with the Poozies.
THURSDAY 19
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Christmas Party with Black Eyed Biddy.
FOLK & WORLD
The following details are for regularweekly dates: see main listings for one-oil shows. Glgs are listed by city, then by day. Residencies will be listed, provided that up-to-date details are supplied to us. Folk and World Residencies Listings compiled by Norman Chalmers.
GLASGOW Fridays
I Victoria DarStockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal lrish/Scottish instrumental session.
Saturdays
I Victoria Bar Stockwcll Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. lrish/Scottish instrumental session.
Sundays
I Scotland's Music BBC Radio Scotland. 2.02-3.30pm. Thirty-part series on the history of Scottish music.
I liabbity Bowsters Blackfriars 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 ear Argyll Street, near Kelvin Park, 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders‘ pub.
Mondays
I lrish Session Sharkcy‘s Bar, beside Citizens’ Theatre, Gorbals, 429 3944. 8.30pm. Free. The McCues and other top Glasgow lrish musicians.
Tuesdays
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre, New Street, 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Live soloists, occasional groups.
I Glasgow Songwriters Blackfriars, Bell Street, 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Singer/songwriters take the floor.
Wednesdays
I Nait Bar Woodlands Road. 9pm. Free. Fiddles, flutes, accordions, banjos etc.
EDI N B U RG H Fridays I Falrrnlle Inn Biggar Road Fairmilehead. 9pm. Free. Live bands. I Open Session Thistle Hotel, Manor Place, 225 6144. 8.30pm—midnight. Free.
Singers and instrumentalists welcome.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion and guitar in the bar.
I North Sea Gas Platform One. Caledonian Hotel, Rutland Street. Free. Popular Scots entertainers.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket, top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Free. Downstairs, songs with guitar etc, upstairs bar with piano.
Saturdays
I Gaudi Shore Bar. The Shore, Leith. 9pm. Free. Celtic music on guitar, mandolin and fiddle.
I West End llotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Highlanders' haunt. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket,
top of High Street. 9pm. Free. I Royal Oak lnfirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal music.
Sundays
I Scotland's Music BBC Radio Scotland. 2.02—3.30pm. Thirty-part series on the history of Scottish music.
I Sandy Bells Forrest Hill Bar, Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.
I Muckle Ado L’Attache, basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. Singalong Scottish folkics.
I Full Shilling Band Ryrie’s Bar, Haymarket. junction of Dairy Road. 9pm. Free. Alternate weeks, songs and tunes.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket, top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Bannerman's Music Bannerman‘s Bar, Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Live music.
I Nancy Nicholson Royal Oak, lnfirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.
Mondays
I Famous Other Band Southside Snooker and Social Centre. 72 Causewayside, 668 3344. 9pm. Free. Scots/lrish.
I L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live bands.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening, 229 2665. Free. Traditional Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddles.
Tuesdays
I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor Place, 225 6144. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists.
I Scratch Band Shore Bar, The Shore, Leith. 9pm. Free. Celticinstrumentai music.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live bands.
I Famous Other Band Bannerman‘s Bar, Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
Wednesdays
I Mistils St James Oyster Bar, Calton Road, 557 2925. 9.30pm. Free. Acoustic guitars and harmony, top female duo from Glasgow.
I Miro Leith Oyster Bar, The Shore, Leith. 9.30pm. Free. lrish and Celtic music.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live bands.
I Flamenco and Tapas Counting House, West Nicholson Street. 8pm. £2.50 includes tapas. Two guitarists.
Thursdays
I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
I Famous Other Band Christies, West Port. 9pm. Free.
I Number One Music Cellar No 1, Chambers Street, 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitarist Freddie Triay with friends and dancers.
CLASSICAL m
Concerts are listed by date. then bycity. Classlcsi Listings compiled by Cami Main.
FRIDAY 6 Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Guitarist Paul Gregory with Stephen Funk Pearson, Bach, Napoleon Coste and popular Latin American pieces.
I Staltis Masterclass Guinness Room, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 2.30pm. Free at door.
I BBC SSO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall,2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £3—£15(conc available). World premiere of Sinfonietta Helvetica by Robin Orr, followed by Dvorak‘s Cello Concerto (soloist Karine Georgian) and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
I Scottish Early Music Consort Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 8pm. £9 (£5). Schutz‘s colourful version of The Christmas Story with eleven solo singers and fourteen players on a variety ofperiod instruments.
Edinburgh
I 880 Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 7, Glasgow. £4—£17.50(£3.50). Viktoria Muiiova is soloist in Brahms‘s Violin Concerto in a concert which opens with the Wand of Youth suite by Elgar followed by Beethoven‘s Symphony No 8.
I Scottish Brewers Silver eand St George’s West Church, Shandwick Place, 225 7001. 8pm. £3 (£2).
SATURDAY 7
Glasgow
I RSO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4—£17.50 (standby £3.50). See Fri 6, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Messiah tor the Sick Kids Usher Hail, Lothian Road, 228 1155. Tickets: 6682019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £5—£25. SCO and SCOC with soloists Patricia MacMahon, Jean Rigby, Jamie MacDougall and David Wilson-Johnson under the baton of Roderick Brydon in a concert to help the Sick Kids Appeal.
I Meadows Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £4 (£2.50). The SCO‘s Lewis Morrison is soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto which falls between Weber’s overture to Der Freischutz and the Symphony No 4 by Schumann.
I Edinburgh University Musical Society Orchestra McEwan Hail, Bristo Square. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. Overture to Die Meistersinger by Wagner, Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony and the Cello Concerto by Dvorak.
I Georgian Concert Society St Cecilia‘s Hall, Cowgate. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen's Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. £7 (£5/£4/£2). A Viennese Salon from Musikfreunde, an evening to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death, includes works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber and Spohr — not to mention Mozart, of course.
8 U N DAY 8 Glasgow I Special Charity Concert Glasgow Royal
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