Ann Neilson. and Jack Beck
I Guitar Concert Strathclyde Suite. 8pm. £9.50. Guitarist‘s guitarist and long-term June Tabor collaborator Martin Simpson leads a strong line-up of distinctive players: lyrical Breton stylist Soig Siberil. rarely heard Italian acoustic performer Beppe Gambetta. American flat-picking genius Dart Crary. and Scotland‘s own Celtic music accompanist and solo performer Tony MacManus.
I Fin MCChuill Molly Malone's. 9pm. Free. Irish theme pub.
I Festival Club Quality Central Hotel. l0.30pm. £ l .50 \\ ith concert ticket. Limited number of tickets for non- concert goers on sale each day from I0am. £5.
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I Danny Kyle's Open Stage Exhibition Hall. 5pm. Free.
I John Wright Band Piping Centre. 8pm. £5. ()riginal songs mix with weel- kent traditional material in contemporary arrangements by the Border-based band. I Natalie MacMaster and Barachois Stratlrclyde Suite. 8pm. £9.50. Over on Cape Breton island the brilliantly youthful MacMaster continues the old Scots Gaelic/Irish derived tradition of fiddling and solo step-dancing while further along Nova Scotia. many inhabitants of Prince Edward Island. including the cheerful Barachois. hold fast to their Gallic roots. their driving footwork as accompaniment to tunes. and their boisterous French songs.
I Brian Lochrie Molly Malone's. 9pm. Free. Irish theme bar.
I Festival Club Quality Central Hotel. I0.30pm. £ l .50 with concert ticket. Limited number of tickets for non- concert goers on sale each day from l0am. £5.
I BBC Radio Scotland lishibition Hall. 2pm. Free. Live broadcast of the similarly titled Celtic Connections programme. which includes performers from the Festival.
I Danny Kyle's Open Stage Exhibition Hall. 5pm. Free.
I Eleanor Shanley and Bumblebees Slrathclytle Suite. 8pm. £9.50. Another great ex-I)e Dannan vocalist moving into the popular middle ground. it la Mary Black. Dolores Keane. Women's Heart album and all that. The Bees are an all- wornen Irish quartet of accomplished traditional instrtrrnentalists and singers. who love what they're doing and communicate it. A fresh. young. happy approach using harp. fiddles. button accordion. and banjo.
I Rohallion Piping Centre. 8pm. £5. Scotsman Jim Malcolm brings a new hand. using keys and percussion. with occasional fiddle. behind his guitar and
fluent rnoothie. and a new direction for his urbane vocal skills and songwriting talent.
I Ray Moore Molly Malone‘s. 9pm. Free. Irish theme pub.
I Festival Club Quality Central Hotel. 10.30pm. £ l .50 with concert ticket. Limited number of tickets for non- concert goers on sale each day from I0am. £5.
THURSDAY 22
I Celtic Conversations Strathclytle Suite. lpm. £3.50.
I BBC Radio Scotland Exhibition Hall. 2pm. Free. Live broadcast of Mr Anderson‘s Fine Ttrnes with performers from the Festival.
I Danny Kyle's Open Stage Exhibition Hall. 5pm. Free.
I Pre-Concert Performance Clyde Foyer. 7.30pm. Free. The RSNO. James MacMiIlan and two groups of music students give performances of two brief student-composed pieces based on musical ideas from MacMiIlan's ‘The Berserking‘.
I The Berserking Main Auditorium. 7.30pm. £8. £l I. £14. £17.50. £2l. Pianist Peter Donohoe features with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in James MacMiIlan‘s dynamic piece based on the legends of Viking/Celtic warrior cults. The concert also includes Stravinsky‘s Rite of Spring. Debussy‘s Images. and The Ringing Isle. a new work by Jonathan Dove. See preview.
I Kieran 6055 and Green Strathclyde Suite. 8pm. £9.50. A good old-fashioned singer/songwriter concert. ()ne of the most admired sorrgsmiths to have emerged from Ireland. Goss has contributed hits to Mary Black among others. and also has a large following as a performer. Support from an emerging Scots duo who add spicy fiddle to the formula.
I Anne Martin and Co Piping Centre. 8pm. £5. From Skye. with a first album imminent. Martin is one of the younger Gaelic singers reaching a new. wider audience. She'll bring friends from the burgeoning Highland music scene.
I Streams of Whiskey Molly Malone's. 9pm. Free. Irish theme bar.
I Festival Club Quality Central Hotel. l0.30pm. £ l .50 with concert ticket. Limited number of tickets for non- concert goers on sale each day from I0am. £5.
Celtic Connections continues until Sun 1 Feb. The next issue ofThe List out on Thu 22 Jan contains full listings and previews of the rest of Celtic Connections. For full listings of other Folk Music events in Glasgow and Edinburgh this fortnight. see our normal listings on page 62.
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BARACHOIS: Superficially similar to the music of last year's Quebecois hit La Bottine Souriante, the centuries-old French tradition of Barachois comes from a tiny pocket of Acadien settlers who managed to avoid the British imperial and cultural domination of Nova Scotia and their home in Prince Edward Island. Be beguiled by the irresistible fiddle tunes, the traditional driving two-foot tapping, and homely vocal harmony.
Old Fruitmarket, Sun 18 Jan, 9pm, £9.50.
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