FOLK & WORLD MUSIC

FOLK & WORLD

Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Performances will be listed, provided that details reach our ottlces at least one week before publication. Folk and World listings cornplled by llorrnan chainiers.

FRIDAY 26

Glasgow

I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. Clyde Place. 9pm. £6 (£4). Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 55! I.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. ofI' Clyde Street. 248 3 I44. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.

Edinburgh

I Guid Crack Club Waverley Bar Upstairs. St Mary‘s Street. 7.30pm. £2. Storytelling club with a variety of performers. and a special guest each month.

SATURDAY 27

Glasgow

I Mike Whellans Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 868i. 3.30pm. Free. Bluesman and moothie maestro. guitarist and singer. back from Danish exile.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3 I44. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.

Edinburgh

I Tron Folk Club Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 I550. 8.30pm. £3.Ex- Battlefield multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Brian Maclleill.

WEDNESDAY 31

Glasgow

I keiran llalpin Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 868I. 8.30pm. Free.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Folk Club Pleasance Cabaret Bar. 60 The Pleasance. 8pm. £4 (£3). Closed for holidays.

ouniermline

I ounlennline Folk Club The Roadhouse. Pilmuir Street.8pm .Free. Singaround/session.

THURSDAY 1

I New Dawn Folk Club Glasgow Press Club. West Regent Street. 332 I674. 8pm. £3-£5. A night of invigorating West Coast music with the box. fiddle. cittern. guitar and songs of the Jura Ceilidh Band.

I Eden Wilkie House. Cowgate. IO.30ptn—3am. £5 (£4). Information (day) 650 42I8. Monthly club features live music with supporting DJ. On stage tonight the contemporary celtic club dance grooves of fiddling piper Martyn Bennett.

I Bert .lansch Cafe Royal. West Register Street. 556 I884. 8pm. £6. Ex-Pentangle singer and acoustic guitar legend.

FRIDAY 2 Glasgow

I Bert Jansch/Spida Glasgow Press Club. West Regent Street. 332 I674. 8pm. £7. Acoustic tingerpicked guitar and vocals from one of the great British talents.

I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. Clyde Place. 9pm. £6 (£4). Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 55I l.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. I-‘ox Street. ofI‘Clyde Street. 248 3 I44. £5. Doors open 8pm.

SATURDAY 3

Glasgow

I Jean liedpath Adelaide‘s. Bath Street. 248 4970. 8pm. £7 (£5). A concert as part of the Living Tradition Series brings one of the best known performers of Scottish Song. From early days as an Edinburgh student. she moved to the States. shared at Greenwich Village apartment with a young folk singer called Bob Dylan and has since recorded dozens of albums. Informative and amusing about the song's background. she sings either to simple guitar accompaniment. or without. in an artful. clear style. more drawing-room than authentically traditional.

I llootchie Cootchie Band Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 t{681. 3pm.

Free. Blues.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. ol‘I‘CIyde Street. 248 3 I44. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.

Edinburgh

I Tron Folk Club Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 I550. 8.30pm. £3. A songwriter and guitarist held in the highest regard by other singers. llod Paterson is one of Scotland‘s greatest interpreters of traditional song.

Peebles

I Traquair Fair Traquair House. Innerleithen. Two-day event has acoustic folk music. including Janet Russell and Christine Kydd. Northumbrian pipes and other sounds over two days.

Peebles

I Iraquair Fair Traquair House. Innerleithen. Two-day event. See Sat 3.

WEDNESDAY 7

Glasgow

I kingston Bridge Trio Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 868 l. 8.3()pm.Free.

Edinburgh

I Edinburgh Folk Club Pleasance Cabaret Bar. 60 The Pleasance. 8pm. £4 (£3). Closed for holidays.

I American Square Dancing St Anne's Centre. Cowgate. 7-9pm. Dance to Okefenokee with caller Colin Mclennan.

ounfermline

I lain Mackintosh Dunfermline Folk Club. The Roadhouse. Pilmuir Street. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Scotland's favourite folk club singer.

THURSDAY 8

Glasgow

I llew oawn Folk Club Glasgow Press Club. West Regent Street. 332 I674. 8pm. £3-£5. Irish music from singer. guitarist and uillean piper Tornes lynch.

tgsEdinburgb ~ Celtic

Gathering

9th - 3lst August The Waverleg Big Top Edinburgh Waverleg Station Car-park

Rhgthms of the Cells

The Celtic Dance Spectacular of ’96

50 Dancers, Singers 8: Musicians from Ireland, Scotland 8: Wales celebrating: Braveheart - Rob Rog - Riverdance at the Fringe

9th - 18th August at 8pm

0 Celtic Jam Sessions & Open Mine 0 0 Traditional Dance Clinics I-4pm e 0 Midnight Ceilidhs ll.30pm - 2.30am o

Celtic Bands, Performers _ Natalie McMaster, Bert Jansch, Niamh Cavanagh (’93 Eurovision Winner), The Ironhorse, Martyn Bennet, Mary Coughlan, Torn Paxton, Lindisfarne ....... ..and many more ..... ..

19th - 31st August at 8pm

Tickets Ticketline 3.0. 0131 220 4349 Fringe 3.0. 0131 226 5138

Supported by RAILTRACK & r. SCOTRAI L

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