folk & world
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
Edinburgh
I Pauline Cato and Tom McConville Tron Folk Club. Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550. 8.30pm. £3. Northumbrian pipin 7. fiddle and song.
listings
Gigs are listed by date, then by cit . Performances wrll be listed, provi ed that details reach our offices at least ten days before publication. Folk & World Listings compiled by Norman
Chalmers. I Midsummer Cei idh Dance Kestrel Hotel. Balerno. 7.30pm. £6 (£5). Information 539 6776. Balerno Folk Club presents a special night with tnusic from Glasgow Gordon Clark's Dance Band.
I Ceilidh Dance Caledonian Brewery. Slateford Road. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Information 01698 385251. Live bands.
SUNDAY 29
Edinburgh
I The Angel's Share Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550. 7.45pm. £5. Two drams of Glemnorangie single malt. provided by the sponsor. will get you in the mood for this weekly. visitor-orientated show in song. poem and prose. celebrating Scots whisky. Devised and performed by Robin 1.aing. I Open House Canon's Gait. Canongate. 556 4481. 9pm. Free. A mix of folk/acoustic song and instrumental performers on stage.
TUESDAY 1 Edinburgh I Edinburgh Songwriter's Showcase
Tron Ceilidh House Cellar Bar. 8.30pm. £1 (performers free). Enquiries 228 8245.
Edinburgh
I Sandy Brechin Band Edinburgh Folk Club. Pleasance Cabaret Bar. The Pleasance. 332 7067. 8pm. £4 (£3). Great. subversive Scots piano accordion player. highly visible in Seelyhoo and Burach. here with Aaron Jones on electric
I Whistlebinkies Piping Centre. McPhater Street. 553 ()220. 8.30pm. £8 (£5). The Scottish harp. bellows-blown bagpipes. side drum. flute. fiddle and concertina blended sweetly in the nation's traditional music and song. by the veteran quintet.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. Clyde Place. 9pm. £5. Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511.
Edinburgh
I Shelter Ceilidh St Brides Centre. ()rwell Terrace. l)alry Road. 7.30pm. £5 (£4). Music from the Belle Star Band. Inft‘irmation and tickets 313 1550.
I Ceilidh Dance Ballroom. Assembly Rooms. George Street.
8pm--midnight. £6 (£4). Tickets 220 4349. Music frotn the Robert Fish Band. I Guid Crack Club Waverley Upstairs. St Mary‘s Street. 7.30pm. £2. Storytelling club presents Aberdeen's Stanley Robertson relating The Dancing Trees and other tales of midsumtner madness.
SATURDAY 28
Glasgow
I Phil Campbell and Tom McFarland Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. Music frotn Ulster.
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Shelter Ceilidh, Friday lune 27th 1997,
St Brides Centre, Off Dalry Road, Edinburgh. Tickets £5/£4 concessions. 7.30 till Midnight. Available from Shelter 0131 313 1550. Music ,by the Belle Star Band.
Shelter
houfiing for good
52 THE HST 27 Jun—10Jul 1997
Brechin all records: manic but tasty squeeze box player Sandy Brechin brings his own high-powered band to liven up Edinburgh's Folk Club, Wed 2 Jul
bass. guitarist Colin MacFarlane. and Jim Walker on drums and percussion.
THURSDAY 3
Glasgow
I Old Blind Dogs Paisley Town Hall. Paisley. 7.30pm. £7 (£5). Top contemporary folk band. Support from Deaf Shepherd.
I James Malcolm New Dawn Folk Club. Glasgow Press Club. West Regent Street. 332 1674. 8.30pm. £3-~£5. Entertaining. and highly talented songwriter. guitarist and mouth organ player with a strong Scots music dimension.
FRIDAY 4
Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. Clyde Place. 552 0588. 9pm. £5. Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. (‘andleriggs 227 5511.
Edinburgh
I Greenpeace Ceilidh Dance Assembly Rooms. George Street. 220 4349. 8pm. £6 (£4). Music by Last Tram To Auchenshtmgle.
SATURDAY 5
Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. l.ive bands.
I Hair of the Dog Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Mae Shaw Tron Folk Club. Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550. 8.30pm. £3. From Ulster. but long domiciled in lidinburgh. guitarist and singer Shaw mixes the traditional with a large repertoire of socialist/women's songs.
Glenrothes
I Kevin Burke's Open House Rothes
Halls. Rothes Square. Kingdom Centre. 01592 612121. 8pm. Top class quartet from USA led by the Bothy Band's genius fiddler. who cheerfully mix and match a great variety of the world‘s music. write their own hilarious songs and present the astonishing Sandy Silva. a tap and clog hoofer who atlds a new dimension in percussion.
SUNDAY 6 Edinburgh I The Angel's Share Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550. 7.45pm. £5. See Sun 29. I Open House Canon‘s Gait. Canongate. 556 4481. 9pm. Free. A mix of folk/acoustic song and instrumental performers on stage.
TUESDAY 8
Glasgow
I Better Crack Club Clutha Vaults. Stockwell Street. 8pm. Donation. Storytelling club hosted by Fwan McVicar.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Songwriter's Showcase Tron Ceilidh House Cellar Bar. 8.30pm. £1 (performers free). Enquiries 661 5275.
WEDNESDAY 9
Glasgow
I Tomas Lynch Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 9pm. Free. Singer (admired by June Tabor). guitarist and fine uillean piper.
Edinburgh
I Rosemary Woods Edinburgh Folk Club. Pleasance Cabaret Bar. 60 The Pleasance. 8pm. £4 (£3). A solo return visit by the fine County Down singer. formerly in a duo with Siobhan Skates.
THURSDAY 10
Glasgow
I New Dawn Folk Club Glasgow Press Club. West Regent Street. 332 1674. 8pm. £3—£5. Alistair Hulett. songwriter.