I Victoria Bar Briggait. 9pm. Free. Acoustic band.

Wednesdays

I Ben Nevis Argyle Street. 8.30pm. Free. Session.

I Lismore Bar Dumbarton Road. 9pm. Free. Highland music.

I Molly Malones Hope Street, 332 2757. 9pm. Free. Irish theme pub. Live bands. I Park Bar Argyle Street, near Kelvin Park, 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Highland music.

I Scotia Bar Stockwell Street. 8.30pm. Free. Live bands.

Thursdays

I Antiquary Bar St Stephen‘s Street, Stockbridge. 9pm. Free. Open folk session. I Castle Arms Johnston Terrace. 9pm. Free. Scottish traditional music.

I Finnegan's Wake Victoria Street, 226 3816. 9pm—2am. Free. Irish theme pub with live music.

I Sandy Bell's Forrest Road, 225 2751. 9pm. Free. Session.

Fridays

I Alan Hunter and Friends Waterloo Buffet, Waterloo Place, 556 7597. 9pm. Free.

I Castle Arms Johnston Terrace. 9pm. Free. Scottish traditional song and music. I Ensign Ewart Lawnmarket. 9pm. Free. Pipcdown play classy stuff on bagpipes, mandolin and guitar.

I Finnegan's Wake Victoria Street, 226 3816. 9pm—2am. Free. Irish theme pub with live music.

I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Road, 225 2751. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish session.

I The Hebrides Market Street, 220 4213. 9pm. Free. Live music.

I Thistle Hotel Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm—midnight. Free. Live Scottish music.

Saturdays

I Castle Arms Johnston Terrace. 9pm. Free. Scottish traditional music.

I Ensign Ewart Lawnmarket, top of High Street, 225 7440. 9pm. Free. Live music. I Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal session.

I Shore Music The Shore Bar, Shore, Leith, 225 2751. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental music.

I The Hebrides Market Street, 220 4213. 9pm. Free. Live music.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion music in the bar.

Sundays

I Finnegan's Wake Victoria Street. 226 3816. 9pm-2am. Free. Irish theme pub with live music.

I Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 3pm. Free. Informal music upstairs and downstair with Andy Chung front 10pm—late.

I Sandy Bell's Forrest Road, 225 2751. 1pm. Free. Session iii the famous folk pub. I Sandy Brechin and Friends Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket. top of Iligh Street, 225 7440. 9-1 1pm. Free. Accordionist‘s pals.

Mondays

I Finnegan's Wake Victoria Street, 226 3816. 9pm—2am. Free. Irish theme pub with live music.

Tuesdays

I Castle Arms Johnston Terrace. 9pm. Free. Scottish traditional music.

I Finnegan’s Wake Victoria Street. 226 3816. 9pm—2am. Free. Irish theme pub with live music.

I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Road, 225 2751. 9pm. Free. Session.

Wednesdays

I Castle Arms Johnston Terrace. 9pm. Free. Scottish traditional music.

I Sandy Bell's Forrest Road, 225 2751. 9pm. Free. Session. Singer/guitarist George Duff and fiddlerlsinger Adam Jack host an evening.

I The Shore Bar The Shore, Lcith, 553 5080. 9pm. Free. Session.

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Performances will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least eight days before publication. Classical listings compiled by Kelly Apter.

j Glasgow I Johann Strauss Gala Royal Concert

Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £12.50—£22.50. Christopher Warren-Green conducts the orchestra in some of the Austrian composer‘s most popular works, including the Blue Danube Waltz, Thunder And Lightning

Polka and excerpts from Die Fledermaus. Soprano Iouise Walsh and the Johann Strauss Dancers (all clad in full period

garb) lend the evening a little extra ptzzazz.

I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Studio I, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive, 338 8844. 7.30pm.

Free. Rumon Gamba conducts the

orchestra lit the world premiere of Nathan Rose‘s Deepest Blue and two works by Bax: Nympholept and Tintagel: symphonic

poem. Tickets are by postal application:

send an s.a.e. to SSO Concerts Secretary, BBC Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, G12 8DG.

I Two's Company Gallery Of Modern Art, Queen Street, 229 1996. 3—4pm. Free. Violin and clarinet duo who perform works by contemporary composers, many of whom are on hand to talk about their work. Relaxed and informal, audience members are invited to sit and watch, or walk around the gallery during the performance.

Glasgow

I Johann Strauss Gala Royal Concert

Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £12.50—£22.50. See Sat 6.

Edinburgh

I La boheme Festival Theatre, 13—29

Nicolson Street, 5296000. 7.15pm. £10—£27.50 (£7—£24.50). The l20-strong Polish State Opera of Wroclaw present Puccini’s tragic opera about love, heartbreak and death (aren‘t they all?)

MONDAY 8 Edinburgh

I La boheme Festival Theatre, 13—29

Nicolson Street, 5296000. 7.15pm.

£10—£27.50 (£7—£24.50). See Sun 7.

' Glasgow

7 I Musica Electronica Concert Hall,

; University of Glasgow, University Avenue, 3304092. 1.10pm. Free. Final i year students on the BEng Electronics

with Music course explore electroacoustic music from around the world.

Glasgow

I Timothy Gill and Fali Pavri Merchants Ilouse, 7 West George Street, 334 9757. 12.45pm. £4.50 (£1.50—£4). Cellist Gill

and pianist Favri perform works by

Beethoven, Brahms and Sally Beamish.

' Edinburgh

I Johann Strauss Gala Usher Hall,

Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm.

£13.50—£22.50. See Sat 6.

I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm.

£5.50—£19. Conductor Joseph Swensen and the orchestra are joined by guest pianist Imogen Cooper and baritone Wolfgang Holzmair in works by Mozart, Mahler and Schubert. A pre-concen talk about Vienna during the three composers’ era is at 6.45pm.

Dunfermline

I Royal Marine Band Carnegie Hall, East Port, 01383 314127. 7.30pm. £6 (£5). Classic melodies and big band favourites from the Royal Marine Band.

Glasgow

I Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Hall, Candleriggs, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £5.50—£17. See Thu 11. Pre-concert talk is at 6.30pm.

I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 10pm. Free. Emerging young Edinburgh conductor Garry Walker is at the baton for the first of three concerts being

recorded for BBC Radio 3’s

contemporary music programme, ‘Hear And Now’. Tonight’s programme features two Scottish premieres from Andrew Toovey and Paul Newland, plus Gordon McPherson's guitar concerto Born OfFunk And The Fear OfFailing and a world premiere by Stuart MacRae.

Edinburgh

I Katherine Campbell Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Business School, Riccarton, 449 5111. 12.30pm. Free. Heriot-Watt continue their programme of lunchtime concerts, with singer Campbell delivering a programme of Burns songs.

Edinburgh

I The Edinburgh Quartet Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 2.30pm. £9 (£6). The string foursome perform quartets by Haydn, Bartok and Mendelssohn.

Glasgow

I The Rachmaninov Trio RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £9 (£4). The piano trio, featuring Lev Atlas on violin, perform works by Beethoven, Glinka and Shostakovich.

Edinburgh

I George Donald Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Mussclburgh, 665 2240. 7.30pm. £9 (£6). Part of the comedy team, Scotland Tlte ll’ltatf’, Donald will be wearing a variety of different hats for this concert, including pianist, singer and raconteur.

TUESDAY 16

Glasgow

I Musica Electronica Concert Hall, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, 330 4092. 1.10pm. Free. See Tue 9.

Polish State Opera perform La boheme at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Sun 7 8. Mon 8 Jan

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Edinburgh

I The Lindsay String Quartet Queen's Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £9—£l6 (£7.50—£14). The quartet begin their six-concert journey through the entire String Quartets of Beethoven. Concert two is tomorrow evening, and the series continues at the Queen‘s Hall in March. See preview.

WEDNESDAY 17

Edinburgh

I The Lindsay String Quartet

Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £9—£I9 (£7.50—£I4). The second of six concerts covering all of Beethoven’s String Quartets. See Tue 16.

THURSDAY 18

Glasgow

I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £7.50—£12.50. The orchestra launch their ‘Discovery Series’, with Nicholas Kok, principal conductor of East Midlands’ Sinfonia VIVA, at the baton. Vaughan Williams' Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis, David Fennessy’s Dead End, Edward Harper’s Intrada After Monteverdi and Peter Maxwell Davies' ll'orldes Blis make up the bill, and there will be a free pre-concert talk with James MacMillan at 6.30pm.

I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Studio 1, Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive, 338 8844. 1pm. Free. Soprano Lisa Milne joins conductor Martyn Brabbins and the orchestra for Britten’s Les illuminations and Debussy’s La Mer. Tickets available by postal application to SSO Concert Secretary, BBC Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow. For further info call 0141 338 2916.

Edinburgh

I Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.45pm. £5.50—£19. The SCO perform their debut concert in the newly refurbished Usher Hall, with principal conductor Joseph Swensen at the baton. The programme opens with Vaughan Williams’ 'I'allis Fantasia, followed by Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20, for which the orchestra are joined by guest pianist Till Fellner. Sibelius’s .S'ymphony No 3 completes the bill. A free pre-concert talk with Joseph Swensen will take place at 6.45pm.

Motherwell

I Tommy Smith 8 Murray McLachlan Motherwell Theatre, Civic Centre, Windmillhill Street, 01698 267515. 7.30pm. £7 (£5). Saxophonist Tommy Smith isjoined by pianist Murray McLachlan for an evening ofjazz meets classical.

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