intitnate all-acoustic setting.
I Out of the Bedroom Waverley Bar. St Mary's Street. 556 8855. 9pm. See Thu 25.
Glasgow
I Follow That Camel Borders Books. Buchanan Street. 222 7700. 7.30pm. Free. lintertaining Scots/Irish quintet.
Edinburgh
I Tomas Lynch Royal ()ak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. Hugely talented Irish singer. guitarist and uillean piper.
I The buffers The Tass. High Street. 556 6338. 9pm. Free. See Fri 26.
Monkton
I Colum Sands Manor Park Hotel. Kilmarnock Road. ()I292 479365.
8 l |.l5pm. £6. l-‘amed Irish singer- songwriter Colutn Sands provides the tnusic at the Manor Folk Club.
Uddingston
I Rowantree Folk Club Session Rowantree Folk Club. Rovvantree lnn. ()ld Mill Road. 01698 303407. Free. All welcome.
Edinburgh
I Nuala Kennedy and friends Royal ()ak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. Wonderful Irish flute player and occasional singer frotn Fine Friday. doing her thing.
Edinburgh
I Open Mic Night The Left Batik. (iuthrie Street. 225 9744. 9pm. See Mon 29.
East Kilbride
I Open Mic Night liast Kilbride Arts Centre. ()ld Coach Road. (H355 26l000. 8pm. Free. Monthly session.
Edinburgh
I Foakies Royal ()ak. lnlirmary Street. 557 2976. Monthly night for aspiring singer songwriters and poets. If you are interested in performing contact Tom Fairnie at totltf(“ tniscorped.ac.uk.
I Ceilidh Club The Lot. (irassmarket. 8pm. £6. See Tue 30.
I Folk and Friends Waverley Bar. St Mary's Street. 556 8855. 9pm. See Tue 30.
Wednesday 7
Edinburgh I ALP Session The Tass. High Street. 556 6338. 9pm. Free. See Wed 3 1.
Alexandria
I Lomond Folk Club The Highlander. Smollet Place. ()I 389 75756l.
8.30pm midnight. Free. See Wed 31.
Duntermline
I Steve and Kristi Nebel Dunfermline Folk Club. Thistle 'l’avern. Baldridgeburn. ()l383 729673. 8pm. £5 (£4). l)uo frotn Seattle area with sotue line songs about life and nature.
Thursday 8
Glasgow
I Eileen McGann Star Folk Club. St Andrew's in the Square. off Saltmarket. St Andrew's Street. 548 6020. 8pm. £7 (£5). ()nc of Canada's tnost admired singers in a duo with slide guitar. bass and vocal harmony.
Edinburgh
I Out at the Bedroom Waverley Bar. St Mary's Street. 556 8855. 9pm. See Thu 25.
Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least ten days before publication to morag.bruce@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Morag Bruce, Frances Boyson and Carol Main.
Glasgow
I Fife Youth Concert Band and the Kingdom Fiddlers RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lptn. £5 (£2.50). Angus Cuthbertson conducts a programme to include Bernstein‘s West Side Story and works by John (iourlay and Philip Sparke.
I Shropshire Youth Orchestra RSAMl). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Return visit frotn this talented group. who demonstrate their versatility in music ranging from excerpts from Vivaldi's Four Seasons to \Valton's llllil music for Richard III. Mendelssohn's Reformation symphony is the tnain work.
LiVingston
I R3 Tenors llowden Park Centre. llowden. 01506 433634. 2pm. £5 (£3). Sensational singing from operatic arias to popular show songs from the most exciting trio of tenors in Scotland.
Glasgow
I The Lydian Orchestra Chamber Ensembles RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. Iptn. £5 (£2.50). The programme will include music by Handel for trumpet and strings and a variety of other groups.
I The Lydian Orchestra RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Iithan Merrick conducts a performance of Beethoven's overture from l'it/e/io and Schutttann’s Symphony .Vo)’. along with the Scottiin premiere of the sa.\ophone concerto
Kaleidot‘hitneru by James Long with soloist Michael (it‘ant.
Glasgow
I Cheshire Youth Choir RSAMl). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. Ipm. £5 (£2.50). Forty young singers present a captivating and entertaining programme of choral music from folk songs to classical pops.
I East Dunbartonshire Secondary Schools’ Orchestra RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). (ieot'ge Kelly conducts the orchestra in a programme to include 'l'chaikovsky‘s Svntp/tonv .\'o4.
Sunday 28
Glasgow
I North Ayrshire Schools’ Senior Choir RSAMI). I00 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lptn. £5 (£2.50). A diverse performance including Rutter’s (i/ot'ia and popular arrangements such as Lloyd ll'ehher in ('ottt‘ert and The Beat/es Rt't'llt'.
I Glasgow Schools String Orchestra RSAMI). I00 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Andrew Morris conducts a fairly eclectic mix of music by (ilazunov. Sibelius. JS Bach. Haydn and Vaughan Williams. With violinist Christina Knox and viola player lain McLarty.
Monday 29
Glasgow
I Junior Guildhall Brass Band RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). The band perform a jolly programme. conducted
: At a time when you could throw a plectrum
~ -~ '- -' '4 and hit an acoustic strumming troubadour on the back of the head this Mexican duo are conscious that to stand out you have to be that bit more ingenious. Covers of Metallica and Dave Brubeck in the same set made ears twitch, but it is their ability to combine the guitar virtuosity pioneered in their homeland with pretty much anything else that takes their fancy — country, folk, rock - that
makes them that bit special.
I Cabaret Voltaire. Edinburgh, Sun 28— Tue 30 Aug.
by Spencer Down. to include works by Copland. Webb. 'l'chaikovsky and Ravel.
Tuesday 30
Glasgow
I East Dunbartonshire Primary Schools’ Orchestra RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lptn. £5 (£2.50). liast Dunbartonshire’s youngest talent perform a programme of classic symphonic repertoire.
I West of Scotland Schools Concert Band RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Nigel Boddice conducts a performance of works by Peter (iraham. Philip Sparke. the ever popular Bernstein. Adatn (iorb and Bill Connor.
Wednesday 31
Glasgow
I West of Scotland Schools Symphony Orchestra RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). James Lowe. the newest darling of the RSNO. conducts the budding Scottish musicians in an all linglish programme. All frotn the 20th century are the Danee Suite by Kenneth Leighton. the Spit/io'e Prelude and Fugue by William Walton and Vaughan Williams' [JUN/(HI Symphony.
Dundee
I Scottish Opera Dundee Rep. Tay Square. ()l 382 223530. 7.30pm. £12 (£5 £8).
Glasgow
I Chamber Musicians of St Mary’s Music School RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lptn. £5 (£2.50). The group perform Beethoven’s .S'eptet. ()p2(). I Karen Mathieson 8: the Scottish Ensemble Citizens' Theatre. I I9 (iorbals Street. 429 0022. 7.30pm. £I2.
. (iaelic songstress Karen Mathieson is
joined by the Scottish linsemble.
I St Mary’s Music School Chamber Orchestra and Singers RSAMl). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). John (irundy conducts the orchestra in two short music theatre pieces in semi-staged productions. Duncan Strachan's A .Wottm‘ht‘ottte Yale and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Glasgow
I Edinburgh Secondary Schools Orchestra RSAMl). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Alasdair Mitchell conducts the ambitious yet exciting selection of (ilinka's overture to Ruslan and Ltulntilla. Liszt‘s Les Preludes and Sibelius‘ Symphony No
Glasgow
I Fife Youth String Orchestra
RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. l2.30pm. £5 (£2.50). Kenneth Clarke conducts a perfortnance of classic string repertoire by Warlock. Ciluck. JS Bach with the surprising. but nonetheless important. addition of music from (it-ease by Jacobs/Casey. The orchestra are joined by the Fife Youth Percussion linsemble as they perform music by Cordero. Confrey and Sanz.
I Fife Youth Orchestra RSAMI). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Penultimate night of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras brings (iraeme Wilson and the highly talented young musicians of Fife in symphonic favourites by Borodin. Malcolm Arnold and the Violin Concerto by Kabalevsky. with gifted soloist Feargus Hetherington. Schumann's .S‘ymphony No 4 makes up the second half.
Glasgow
I Glasgow Schools Symphony Orchestra RSAMl). l()() Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Closing concert of the Festival of British Youth ()rchestras and it's the home team with conductor William Conway in lves‘ The Unanswered Question. lilgar's version of Bach's C minor Fantasia and Fugue. Walton‘s Henry V Suite and the .Symphony No 8 by Dvorak.
Tuesday 6 ,
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 l 155. |.l0pm. City organist John Kitchen presents a Hans Christian Andersen special.
25 Aug—8 Set) 2005 THE LIST 59