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Thursday 8 ;
Glasgow
I Kent Duchaine St Andrew‘s in the Square. St Andrew’s Square. 559 5902. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Driving blues from the guitar maestro.
I Willie Nelson SECC. Clyde Auditorium. Finnieston Quay. 0870 040 4000. 8pm. SOLD 0111‘. Willie Nelson is the greatest living exponent of the art of country music and his unmistakeable. understated style should not be missed by anyone who cares about music with heart and soul. See preview. page 73.
Edinburgh
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()1 l 1. 645—1015an £51.50 (£30). Scottish entertainment. with a selection of music. song. dance and dining.
Glasgow
I Patrick Street and the Nenrick Jansberg Band The Old Fruitmarket. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 9.30pm. £14. lnsinuating fiddler Kevin Burke. mandolin balladeer Andy Irvine. ex-Battlefield piping guitarist Ged Foley and new man on the fiddle. flute and fretted fifths. John Carty. bring their relaxed but polished Irish songs and music for the umpteenth
Music Forum National Museum of Scotland. Chambers Street. 247 4422. l2.45-3.45pm. Crumhorns and psalteries for starters.
I The Waifs Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7pm. £13. Huge down under. and going up here. this is winsome folksy blues and Americana from Australian sister duo Vicki and Donna Simpson. with guitar. bass and drums.
I Melody Gardot The Voodoo Rooms. West Register Street. 556 7060. 8pm. £10. Mellow blues. electric folk and a touch of jazz from the American songwriter.
I Kent Duchaine The Jazz Bar. Chambers Street. 220 4298. 8.30pm. £8. Guitar star. See Thu 8.
I Tift Merritt The Pleasance Cabaret Bar. Pleasance. £14. Raw country-tinged rock from North Carolina.
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()l l l. 6.45—10. 15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
time. Support from the fiddling Viking and
his raiders.
I Willie Nelson SECC. Finnieston Quay. ()87() 0404000. 8pm. £30—£35. See Thu 8.
Edinburgh Rachel Unthank & the Winterset The Voodoo Rooms. West Register Street. 556 7060. 9pm. £10. Hot Tyneside all-girl quartet with a new slant on old traditions. See preview. page 74. I Balkanarama Studio 24. (‘alton Road. 558 3758. 9pm—3am. £6 before 1 1pm. £8 after. Gypsy. Balkan. and klezmer music. plus film and visuals from Fanfare Vagabontu. the eight-piece gypsy brass band from Romania. Support from Black Cat. See Clubs preview. page 42. I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()1 l I. 6.45—10.15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
I Assembly Rooms Ceilidh Assembly
Rooms. George Street. 339 5374. 8pm. £10 (£8 in advance). Ceilidh dance band Hebrideans and caller Ken Gourlay.
Edinburgh
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()l l l. 6.45—10.l5pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Glasgow
I Cherish the Ladies City Halls. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 7.30pm. £17. Irish-American all-women group fronted by the flute/whistle player Joanie Madden. back in their favourite city.
I TWO Voices Cafe Cossachok. Russian Cultural Centre. Albion Street. 553 0733. 9pm. £6. A night of Russian and gypsy music from Lev Atlas and Artiom Akopyan.
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Edinburgh
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()1 l l. 6.45-10.15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Tuesday .13
Edinburgh
I Gillebride MacMillan Leith Folk Club. The Village. South Fort Street. 478 7810. 7.30pm. £6. Mod Gold Medal Gaelic song winner and South U ist resident joined by Ewan MacPherson (guitar) and Kathleen Graham (clarsach). I Ceilidh Club The Lot. Grassmarket. 225 9922. 8pm. £6. Ceilidh dance.
and callers to lead you through the steps. Music from Roundhouse Ceilidh Band. I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()l l l. 6.45—10. 15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
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Glasgow
I Michael Simons Tchai ()vna. Deanston Drive. 649 7258. 8pm. £2. Glasgow-based guitarist plays folk. blues and beyond in the tiny back-of-the Kelvin
Edinburgh
I Andy White Edinburgh Folk Club. Cabaret Bar. The Pleasance. ()1343
8501 l 1. 8pm. £7 (£6). Politics and wit from the perennially likeable Irish folk rock singer-songwriter.
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()l l l. 6.45— 10.15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Thursday 1,5.
Glasgow
I Fiddle Rendezvous Platform. The Bridge. 1000 Westerhouse Road. Easterhouse. 01854 613 336. 7.30pm. £10 (£7—£5). Bruce Molsky. Mary Ann Kennedy. Gerry ()‘Connor. Gilles le Bigot and Mike & Ali Vass showcase American. Irish & Scottish fiddle music on their Tune Up tour.
I Woody Guthrie Tribute Concert St Andrew‘s in the Square. St Andrew's Square. 559 5902. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). The Lanarkshire Songwriters‘ Group bring their acclaimed tribute to Woody Guthrie to the Star.
Edinburgh
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()1 l l. 6.45- 10.15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Friday 16 .
Glasgow I Lunasa The ()ld Fruitmarket. Candleriggs. 353 8000. 9.30pm. £14. The
finest Irish band of the last decade: Sean Smyth (fiddle). Kevin Crawford (flute). Trevor Hutchinson (bass). Paul Meehan
. (guitar) and Cillian Valler (uilleann
pipes and whistles) has just released The Story So Far. culled from six superlative albums. And they‘re even more exciting live.
I Davy Graham ()ran Mor. Great Western Road. 357 6200. 7pm. ()nce. back in the 1960s. one of the most
influential acoustic guitarists (he wrote
‘Anji' ). and the defining originator of the British folk/blues fmgerpieking boom. he also was among the first to shape an
2 emerging ‘world music.‘
1 Edinburgh I Teannaich Pollock Halls. Holyrood
Park Road. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Dance to
a Ceilidh band with a caller.
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street.
. 5560111. 6.45—10.15pm. £51.50(£30). See Thu 8.
I Fiddle Rendezvous Queen‘s Hall. 87—89 Clerk Street. ()1854 613 336. 8pm. £15 (£12). See Thu 15.
Fife
I FifeSingZOOB: The Fife Traditional Singing Weekend Fife Animal Park. Birnie. Collessie. A whole weekend of authentic Scots and English traditional singing. Elizabeth Stewart
from Mintlaw Brian Watson from
Prudhoe in Northumberland. Shona Donaldson from Huntly. Ellen Mitchell from Glasgow. Jimmy Hutchison from Newburgh. bothy ballad singer Ron Bissett from Falkland. Alex Clarke from Dundee. and the great North-East singer Jock Duncan. Full programme details online at: http://www.springthyme .co.uk/tifesing
Saturday 11 ’ . . ;
Edinburgh
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 5560111. 6.45-10.15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Fife
I FifeSing2008: The Fife Traditional Singing Weekend Fife Animal Park. Birnie. Collessie. See Fri 16.
' Ayrshire
I Burns An’ A’ That Various venues. 01292 612477. Times vary. Prices vary. Varied music. song and poetry taking place in and around Ayr.
Sunday 18
Glasgow
I Tinariwen The Arches. Argyle Street. 565 1000. 7pm. £17. Hard rocking blues from the band formed in a refugee camp in Libya in the early 1980s. made up of nomadic Touaregs
from the Malian Sahara desert.
I Frances Black The ()ld
Fruitmarket. Candleriggs. 353 8000.
8pm. £14. An evening of contemporary and folk music from the popular Irish songstress. She’s been voted Ireland's Best Female Artist at the Irish Record Industry Awards.
I The Land of Songs Cafe
Cossachok. Russian Cultural Centre. Albion Street. 553 ()733. 9pm. £6. Ukrainian songs and operatic arias performed by Glasgow-based Ukrainian soprano ()ksana Mavrodi with Anna Mavromatidi on piano.
Edinburgh
I Orkestra del Sol and The Den
Collective Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £10. Energetic world
music. incorporating samba. gypsy.
polka. carnival anthems and calypso at their Moi'mhlc Feast album launch party.
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. 107 Leith
Folk Music
Street. 556011 1. 645-10. 15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Fife
I FifeSingzooa: The Fife Traditional Singing Weekend Fife Animal Park. Birnie. Collessie. Fri 16.
Ayrshire I Burns An’ A’ That Various venues. 01292 612477. Times vary. Prices vary. See Sat 17.
Monday 19
Edinburgh
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()l l l. 6.45~l().15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Ayrshire I Burns An’ A’ That Various venues. ()1292 612477. Times vary. Prices vary. See Sat 17.
Tuesday 20
Edinburgh I Eric Andersen Leith Folk Club. The
Village. South Fort Street. 478 7810.
7.30pm. £10. Singer and guitarist whose tracks have been recorded by Fairpon. Linda Ronstadt and The Grateful Dead.
I Ceilidh Club The Lot. Grassmarket. 225 9922. 8pm. £6. Dance to Norman Mackay's Ceilidh Experience. See Tue 13. I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()l 1 1. 6.45—10.15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Ayrshire I Burns An’ A’ That Various venues. ()1292 612477. Times vary. Prices vary. See Sat 17.
Wednesday 21
Glasgow
I Michael Simons Tchai ()vna.
Deanston Drive. 649 7258. 8pm. £2. See 'ed 14.
Edinburgh
FREE Jo Foster, Emily Scott and Katie Stewart The Southern. South Clerk Street. 667 2289. 8pm. Acoustic night headed by the country/folk of Jo Foster. Part of Univ/2's! Edinburgh.
I Tanglefoot Edinburgh Folk Club. Cabaret Bar. The Pleasance. 650 2458. 8pm. £7 (£6). Contagious tunes and songs (winners of Best Vocal Group at last year‘s Canadian awards) from this assertive. ungentle five-piece.
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening
Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556
()l l 1. 6.45—10. 15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Ayrshire I Burns An’ A’ That Various venues. ()1292 612477. Times vary. Prices vary. See Sat 17.
Thursday 22
Glasgow
I Angus MacColl and Gordon Walker The National Piping Centre. McPhater
Street. Cowcaddens. 287 551 1. 7.30pm. , £8 (£6). The last in the Highland Piping
recital series presents with two great Gold
Medal winners. ' I Tanglefoot St Andrew‘s in the Square.
St Andrew‘s Square. 559 5902. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). See Wed 2|.
Edinburgh
I Jamie’s Scottish Evening Edinburgh Thistle Hotel. Leith Street. 556 ()l l l. 6.45—10.15pm. £51.50 (£30). See Thu 8.
Ayrshire I Burns An’ A’ That Various venues. ()1292 612477. Times vary. Prices vary. See Sat 17.
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