Music folk & world listings
‘ , Folk 8. world listings continued
I University of Strathclyde
Concert Exhibition Hall. Free. See
Mon 20.
I Danny Kyle’s Open Stage Exhibition Hall. 5pm. Free.
I Altan and Friends Main Auditorium. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £12.50—£14.50. Dublin-based. but Donegal-rooted band. among the
current top half-dozen Irish vocal and instrumental groups. with a twin-fiddle attack and songs in Gaelic and English. I Mouth Music Strathclyde Suite.
8pm. £12.50. No strangers to Celtic
Connections. Mouth Music played the very first festival ten years ago. with the band's trademark mix of beats and
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I The Tannahill Weavers The Old Fruitmarket. 287 5511. 8pm. £14. One of Scotland's longest running folk bands. the Tannahill Weavers perform their trademark ‘Celtic thunder‘ take on traditional tunes and instrumentals.
I Fred Morrison and Jamie
McMenemy The Piping Centre. 287 551 1. 8pm. £8. Celebrated Uist piper Fred Morrison links tip with Brittany- based Scots singer and bouzouki player
Jamie McMenem
I Fiddle School Concert and
Masterclass The Quality Central
Hotel. 221 9680. 8pm. £5. With Irish
master stylist Martin Hayes.
I BBC Radio Scotland Live Festival Broadcast Exhibition Hall. 10.30pm. Free. See Mon 20.
I Festival Club The Quality
Central Hotel. 221 9680. 10.30pm. £5.
Edinburgh
I Sounds ot Nations Bongo Club. New Street. 558 7604. 10pm—3am. £3. A mix of live music and DJs play music from Africa.
Arabia. Latin America and even Scodand.
; Wednesday 22
Glasgow
I University of Strathclyde Concert Exhibition Hall. 2pm. Free. See Mon 20.
I Danny Kyle’s Open Stage Exhibition Hall. 5pm. Free.
I The Spirit of the Celts Main Auditorium. 7.30pm. £ I 2.50—£ 14.50. Intemationally renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie returns to Celtic Connections. in collaboration with Nonhumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell and her band. pianist Philip Smith and flautist/ composer Dave Heath.
I The Sands Family Strathclyde Suite. 8pm. £12.50. Northem Ireland's political/traditional musical family join together for more music and humour. The first half will be broadcast as part of BBC 2's Mike Harding Show.
I Bob Geldoi The Old Fruitmarket. 287 5511. 8pm. £16. The former Boomtown Rats frontman and Live Aid catalyst plays a selection of old favourites and songs from his new album. Sat. Age and Dr'th.
I Master and Apprentice The Piping Centre. 287 5511. 8pm. £8.
: Continuing the new series in Celtic
Connections where young talents learn from old hands. Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis works with Arthur Cormack and Declan Haggety plays clarsach with Jannet Harbison.
I Fiddle School Concert and Masterclass The Quality Central Hotel. 221 9680. 8pm. £5. Cape Breton master Buddy MacMaster leads this
i concert and masterclass.
I BBC Radio Scotland Live Festival Broadcast Exhibition Hall. 10.30pm. Free. See Mon 20.
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, I Festival Club The Quality Central
Hotel. 221 9680. 10.30pm. £5.
Edinburgh I Honest Water Edinburgh Folk Club.
7 Cabaret Bar. the Pleasance. 650 2349. 8pm.
£6 (£5). Launch of the multi-instrumental
! wind. reeds and frets collaborative project
and CD ‘Honest Water‘ headed by Salsa
Celtica pipe and saxman Fraser Fifteld.
with Graeme Stephen and Kris Drever.
Thursday 23 .
Glasgow
I Schools Concert tor Primary 4-7, Secondary 1-2 Main Auditorium. 1 lam. Free tickets.
I University of Strathclyde
Concert Exhibition Hall. 2pm. Free. See
Mon 20. I Danny Kyle’s Open Stage Exhibition Hall. 5pm. Free.
I The Waterboys Main Auditorium.
7.30pm. £18.50. Returning to Celtic Connections after last year's sell out show. the Waterboys play acoustic and electric pop/folk. featuring leader Mike Scott. with Steve Wickham. Richard Naiff. Geoff Duemore and Brad Waissman.
I osmic Rough Riders, Mystery Juice, and Sunhoney King Tut‘s Wah
Wah Hut. 221 5279. 8pm. £8. Jangly retro-
rock from Glasgow‘s Cosmic Rough Riders with support from Edinburgh swamp blues hip hop masters Mystery Juice.
I Concert by Candlelight Glasgow Cathedral. 552 8198. 8pm. £12.50. Shine. featuring Alyth McCormack. Mary MacMaster and Corrina Hewat. blend three voices and two electroharps to create a unique close harmony.
I Croft No 5 The Arches. 0901 022
0300. 8pm. £12.50. Launched in 2001 this
young band take Scottish instrumental
roots. add funky percussion. and make like a younger Shooglenifty.
I Norman MacLean Strathclyde Street. 8pm. £12.50. Comedian. piper. and colourful character Norman Macl.ean sings from the Gaelic and Scots tradition. He is joined by singer Julie Fowlis. accordionist Angus MacPhail. fiddler Allan Henderson and guitar star Stretch MacFarlane.
I Duncan Chisholm and Ivan
Drever The Piping Centre. 287 5511.
8pm. £8. Fiddler Duncan Chisholm and singer/guitarist Ivan Drever. both ex- Wolfstone.
I Finlay MacDonald Tron Theatre. 552 4267. 8pm. £8. Piper MacDonald performs his own composition for pipes and other instruments as part of Celtic Connections New Voices Revisited series. I Fiddle School Concert and Masterclass The Quality Central Hotel. 221 9680. 8pm. £5. Califomian Scot Alasdair Fraser leads this concert and masterclass.
- I Baltic Tae Byzantium - Back 0’ , the North Wind 11 The Old
Fruitmarket. 287 5511. 9pm. £14.A new evolution of fiddler Brian McNeill's Back
A 0' the North Wind. staged at the inaugural
Celtic Connections a decade ago. North Wind 11 takes McNeill's vision of the Scots — this time not in the New World but in Europe — and combines audio-visual technology with his own songs and music.
I I Myliarit Cafe Cossachok. Russian Cultural Centre. King Street. 553 0733.
9pm. £5 (£3). See Sun 19. I Festival Club The Quality Central
Hotel. 221 9680. 10.30pm. £5. Par! ()f Celtic Crmlwctions.
Edinburgh I Cut ot the Bedroom Waverley Bar. St Mary‘s Street. 557 1050. 9pm—midnight.
Free.
‘ I Biionga Prive Counsil. Hanover
Street. 225 8808. 10pm—3am. £3.
Glasgow I Schools Concert tor Primary 4-7, Secondary 1-2 Main
Auditorium. 11am. Free. See Thu 23.
I University oi Strathclyde Concert Exhibition Hall. 2pm. Free. See Mon 20.
I Danny Kyle's Open Stage Exhibition Hall. 5pm. Free.16.
I The Young Tradition: Pipes and Whistles The Piping Centre. 287 5511. 8pm. £6. Continuing the series celebrating key Scottish instruments. various youthful pipers and whistlers demonstrate the instruments.
I Cliar and Diamh Strathclyde Suite. f 8pm. £14. The latest line-up of the top
Gaelic/Highland song and music group joins forces with the Lochaber-based Diamh (pronounced ‘dive'l whose all- instrumental line-up ranges from Scotland and Ireland to Cape Breton and California.
I New Voices Revisited: Mary
MacMaster Tron Theatre. 552 4267.
1 8pm. £8. A commission performed by
Sileas and Shine singer/harp player
: MacMaster pays tribute to inventor of the
electro-harp. the late Joel Gamier. Fellow harpists and drummer Donald Hay join her for an interweaving of sound and rhythm. I Riverside Ceilidh Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. 8pm. £6. The Modest Scott ceilidh band.
I Alasdair Fraser School of Fiddle and Dance Final Concert The Quality Central Hotel. 221 9680. 8pm. £5. Grand finale.
I Concert by Candlelight - Ricky
Ross Glasgow Cathedral. 552 8198. 8pm.
£14. Atmospheric concert from popster Ricky Ross as part of Celtic Connections. I Cajun: Steve Riley and the
' Mamou Playboys The Arches. 0901
022 0300. 8pm. £12.50. The two-steps. waltzes and songs of the Louisiana French Cajun tradition.
I Shooglenifty with Mairead Nesbitt Band The Old Fruitmarket. 287 5511. 10pm. £14.Celtic acid-croft dance sounds from the long-established kings of
. fusion. Support from Riverdance‘s Irish fiddler. Mairead and her band.
I Festival Club The Quality Central Hotel. 221 9680. 10.30pm. £5.
Edinburgh
I Burns’ Supper Harry Miller Hall. Kirk 0‘ Field Church. 3322578. 7.30—10pm. £5. Annual Bums‘ supper. with songs and music.
- Glasgow
I Scottish Highland Dance Competition City Hall. Candleriggs. 353 8000. £3.50. All-day Scottish dance competition.
I The Young Tradition: Female i Vocals The Piping Centre. 287 5511.
1pm. £6. Continuing the series
celebrating key Scottish music-making tools. some of the best female vocalists
of the moment demonstrate the voice's powerful potential in Scottish music.
I The Afternoon Piping Concert Main Auditorium. 1pm. £8.A long-established part of Celtic Connections. today's piping concert is frotn Northern Ireland's world-class
Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band.
plus su port. I La nera Caiaveras Strathclyde
Suite. 1pm. £7.50. Nine-piece band ' specialising in Cuban son. Harpist
Phamie Gow‘s band in support. I Danny Kyle’s Open Stage
Exhibition Hall. 5pm. Free. I Liam O’Flynn meets Michael McOoldrick Main Auditorium.
7.30pm. £12.50—£ 14.50. Doyen of Irish pipers. Liam O'Flynn. whose credits include performing with Seamus Heaney. co-forming Planxty and taking the lead in Shaun Davey‘s orchestral Brendan Voyage — joins his Uillean pipes with Capercaillie's Michael McGoldrick on
pipes. flute and whistle player
I Burns at the Gallery Art Gallery & Museum. Kelvingrove. Argyle Street. 287 2699. 7.30pm. £10 (£5 children). In aid of the Kelvingrove Refurbishment