Top secret: Paul Brady plays Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.

Edinburgh

I Ceilidh Dance St Bride’s Centre, Orwell Terrace, Dalry Road. 8pm. £9 (£5). Tickets in advance from Coda (Mound 622 7246, Waverley Centre 557 4694). £36 for series of six monthly dances. Fund-raiser for Edinburgh’s Shoots and Roots festival. Tonight’s music from Bella McNab’s Ceilidh Band plus guests.

SATURDAY 2

Glasgow

I Paul Brady Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Sauchiehall Street, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £15 (£12.50). New ’best-of’ album Nobody Knows (Rykodisc) is a beauty. This is the only Scottish concert of the unique Irish singer/songwriter and classy guitarist that Dylan called a ‘secret hero’. Tonight he performs solo.

I Catfish Keith Cottier Theatre, I-lyndland Street, 357 3868. 8pm. £8. Tremendous bottleneck guitarist, singer and songwriter from Chicago, the latest in Cottier’s regular series of blues concerts by top US artists.

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.

Edinburgh

I Dance For Your Rights St Bride’s Centre, Orwell Terrace, Dalry Road. 8pm. £10/£6 (£3). Tickets in advance from Word Power, 43 West Nicolson Street. Information 225 6977. Organised by the Civil Rights Movement. Music by the Belle Stars Band.

SUNDAY 3

Edinburgh

I Magpie Royal Oak Downstairs, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 8.30pm. £3. Tickets in advance from the bar. The American duo concentrate on political and social folk song. NB: small venue, only 30 seats! Presented by The Wee Folk Club.

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I Edinburgh Songwriter's Showcase The Tron, Hunter’s Square, High Street. 9pm. £1. Information 657 3702. Weekly event. To book an open-mic spot arrive at 8.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 6

Glasgow

I Weekly Scots Fiddle Workshops Kinning Park Complex, Cornwall Street, Kinning Park. 7.30—9.30pm. Workshops on Scots and Cape Breton fiddle styles, for advanced players, beginners and intermediate levels. Young beginners classes commence earlier in the evening. Information 779 9047.

I Orain Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 9pm. Free.

Edinburgh I Edinburgh Folk Club AGM Royal Oak Bar, Infirmary Street. 8pm.

THURSDAY 7

Glasgow

I Hans Theesinlt New Dawn Folk Club, Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 8.30pm. £3—£5. Phenomenal bluesman.

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