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listings

Dates listed below are for one-off and ticketed shows. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Performances will be listed. provided that details reach our offices at least ten da s before publication. Folk 8: Worl listings compiled by Norman Chalmers.

acoustic guitars play sophisticated. highly eclectic and sometimes even silly music. with great style.

livingston

I Latin Dance Workshops Hovvdeii Park Centre. Information and booking. ()l506 43363-1. Beginners 6.30pm. Experienced dancers 7.30pm. Workshops last one hour.

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THURSDAY 4 Edinburgh

Glasgow I Jimmy Crowley Peiiieuik Folk

I Gerry Cairns New Dawn Folk Cltib. Club. Navaar House Hotel. Bog Road. 8.l5pm. £4 (£3). Information ()l‘)68 678153. Legendary Cork traditional singer/picked string player and iiiiitliful troubador has a new ‘Uiicorked' album

Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3 l-l-l.

8.30pm. £3-—£5. Higth talented. mature. warm. witty and unfortunately infrequent performer. vvith a great repertoire of Irish

on Cireentrax. '

Livingston

I Taiko Drum Workshops Howden Park Centre. Information and booking. 01506 43363-1. 7.30—9.30pm. 'I‘i'aditional. loud. Japanese ritual drumming.

song - and a beautiful voice.

I Celtic Harp, Song and Legend Theosophical Centre. Queen's Crescent. 7.30pm. £8 (£5). Information 564 57-15. Tales. songs and harp music from Fiona Davidson.

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ousoow. noVAi coiiciiir HALL MONDAY 15 MARCH '99 - 7.30pm nouns 6.30m BOX OFFICE: 0141 2875511 8t 0870 7300 247

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G'asgow ' WEDNESDAY 10

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox I Glasgow

Street. 248 3 144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. I Weekly Scots Fiddle Workshops Live bands. Kinning Park Complex. Cornwall Street. I Ceilidh Dance The Feri‘v. (‘Iyle Kinning Park. 7.30J).30pm. £4 I .50). Place. 9pm. £5. Tickets at the venue or in Workshops on Scots and Cape Breton advance from the Ticket Centre. fiddle st_vIes. for advanced players. Caiidlei'iggs. 227 551 I. beginners and intermediate levels. Young

. beginners classes commence earlier in Edinburgh

the evening. Information 779 90-17. I Club Latino Bongo Club. New Street. I Moonshiners Scotia Bar. Stockvvell 558 760-1. I0.30piii--3am. £6 (£5). I.ive

Street. 552 868 I. 9pm. Free. rhvtlims from (‘irupo I)o Samba of . Edinburgh's Samba School. Dance Edlnblll‘gh instruction from Alba Higgins and the I Malinky Edinburgh Folk Club. Salsa Angels ai I0.30pm. I’Ieasance Theatre Bar. The I’leasance.

650 23-19. 8pm. £4. (£3). Children free. SATURDAY 6

Debut performance of voting IitIinburin Glasgow

band led by award-winning sitiger/songwriter Karine I’onart. I Clive Gerner Borders Books and Cafe. Buchanan Street. Store open

NEW DATES

ROYAL GLASGOW CONCERT HALL Wednesday 7th April 0141 287 5511

I Folk Session Village Inn. South Forth

Street. 478 78 It). 9pm. Free. Xaiii—I lpiii. .‘vItisic 7pm. Free. Folk/blues

I Dagmars Scotia Bar. Stockvv ell Street.

55: sox I. 3.30pm. Free. Glasgow

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox

Street. 248 3 I44. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. I.ive bands.

I.ive bands.

. I Ceilidh Dance The Fei‘i'v. (1ch Edlflblll‘gh Place. 552 0538. 9pm. £5. Tickets at the I Sangsters Tron Folk Club. The Tron. venue or in advance from the Ticket Hunter Square. 226 093 l. 9pm. £4 (£3). Centre. Candleriggs. 227 55I I. Traditional song and Iiariiionv from the .

' Edinburgh

celebrated. eai'thv Fife trio. I Ceilidh Dance The ISI2. Waterloo

EDINBURGH QUEEN’S HALL Friday 9th April 0131 668 2019

All tickets valid

. Edinburgh I Davy Steele 't‘i-on Folk Club. The Tron. Hunter Square. 226 093 I. 9pm. £4 (£3). Free from Battlefield duties for a short spell. sitiger/guttar/citterii and bodhran pIa_ver I)av_v gives a solo show. I Lizzard Lounge Cafe (il‘afllll.

Mansfield Church. Iiast London Street.

8 I0pm—-2am. Tickets £7 (£6). I).I's. |

Tonight. London-based singer from Glasgow

Venezuela. Carlos Pena and the I California Guitar Trio Borders Books Mucliaclios. Information 550 37I6. Cafe. Buchanan Street. Store open 8am--I lpiii. Music 6.30pm. Free. Three

Glasgow ' i ' j .j I I Royal COncert Hall - 2nd & 3rd April

Box Office: 0141 287 5511

I Lizzard Lounge Cafe Graffiti. Mansfield Church. East London Street. I’Iace. £8.50 (£6). Food. Information and tickets 346 293-1. Music front the Auld 550 37I6. ms and live music from Latino 2000. Iidinbtirgh Grand Opera. I Mutineers Duo Hilton Hotel. Beli‘oi-ti Chevne St. Edinburgh. 7.30pm. £6 (£3.50). Tickets arid information 664 Pearson entertains. CNI) and Trident I’Ioughshares 2000. 3 'Scottish. Breton and Eastern Dance Friends. ; I Karine Polwart Borders Books and Cafe. Buchanan Street. Store open Fife Iidinbtirgh Festival Songwriter Carnegie Hall. Dunfertnline. Information Competition '98. See Iidinburgh. Wed 10. and tickets ()I 383 3 I4 I 27. liar-catching Stockvvell Street. 552 S68I. 3.30pm. coiicei'tina/guitar and bass. Neil (iow's : Free. Clark. Street. 248 3l-1-I. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. . . live bands. LiVingston Hovvdeii l’ai'k Centre. (11506 43363-1. 7.30pm. Workshops |0aiii«noon. I--3piii. Javanese tuned percussion tatiglit and performed b_v ('ilasgovv‘s Naga .\Ias or

I0pm-2ain. Tickets £6 (£5). Information

Reekie Ceilidh Band. Charity bash for I Whirligig Ceilidh Stockbi'idge House.

Road. In the bar. 9pm. Free. Graeme 8-14 I. Bar and raffle. Fund-raiser for Ftision‘ music front Lorraine Jordan aiid Glasgow

. . Rain—I Ipiii. Music 7pm. Free. Winner of

I Simon Thoumire Three/Pete Clark _ I Rhythm Rogues Scotia Bar. folk/tau crossover front 'I'Iiouiiiire’s exquisite traditional fiddle tunes front , I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Cltib. Fox I Gamelan Workshops/Concert £5 (£3). Concert 7.30pm. £4 (£2.50). 'Ciolden I)i‘agoii‘ group

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