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8pm. See Mon 28. Tuesday 12
Glasgow FREE Tom Laurie Hughenden Sports Club, 32 Hughenden Road, 357 6437. 7.30pm. See Tue 5. FREE Yaman Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. Indian classical sitar and flute music from the tea house’s resident sitarist. Edinburgh ■ Ceilidh Club The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 8.30pm. £6. Ceilidh dancing, furious fiddlers and callers to lead you through the steps. Featuring Whisky Kiss.
Wednesday 13
Glasgow ■ Karen Matheson Òran Mór, 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £18. Providing the haunting vocals of Celtic supergroup Capercaillie, Matheson has been called the finest Gaelic singer alive today. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh ■ Café Voices Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High St, 556 9579. 7–9pm. £5. A relaxed session of oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song. Storyteller Lilian Ross hosts an evening of stories of the nice and the nasty, entitled ‘Thorns and Roses’. FREE James Murray The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register St, 556 7060. 7pm. Murray has been described as ‘Edinburgh’s Johnny Cash’. Part of the Leith Festival. ■ Stevenson College Showcase Stevenson College, Bankhead Avenue, stevenson.ac.uk 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Students from Stevenson College perform folk and classical music in various configurations, as a showcase for their work. ■ Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies Edinburgh Folk Club, Cabaret Bar, 60 The Pleasance, 559 5902. 8pm. £10 (£8; members £6). Renowned four-piece from the north-east of England, featuring vocals, guitar, fiddle, keyboards and double bass. ■ Spanglish Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8-16 Morrison St, 228 9393. 11pm–3am. £4. See Wed 30.
Thursday 14 Glasgow ■ Clova, Steven Clark and Jim King Hughenden Sports Club, 32 Hughenden Road, 357 6437. 7.30pm. £6–£7. A mix of traditional music, story, song and humour. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Taigh Ceilidh Ghlaschu Argyll Hotel, 973 Sauchiehall St, 337 3313. 7.30pm. £2 (£1; students £1). See Thu 24. ■ Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902. 8pm. £10 (£8). See Wed 13. FREE John Hinshelwood Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. Star of the Scottish roots, country and folk music scene plays originals and covers.
Edinburgh ■ The Night of Rumi with Kayhan Kalhor Ensemble The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £23 (£20). Iranian and Persian music from four-time Grammy nominee Kayhan Kalhor an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the Kamancheh. ■ Dennis Alexander Meridian, 138 Leith Walk, 554 4238. 8.30pm. £8 (£6). Comedy folk night entitled ‘Songs, Stories and Downright Lies’. Part of the Leith Festival. Friday 15
Glasgow ■ Saints Fiddlers Ceilidh Hughenden Sports Club, 32 Hughenden Road, 357
FOLK/CLASSICAL Music
6437. 7.30pm. £6–£7. Lively traditional ceilidh led by Mike Smith from St Andrews in the Square. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Moishe’s Bagel Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland St, 357 4000. 10.30pm. £9 on the door, £7 if booked in advance (students £5; under 16s free). Take-no-prisoners avant-klezmer. Part of Cottier Chamber Project. Edinburgh ■ Mark Dunlop and Linda MacLeod The Canon’s Gait, 232 Canongate, 556 4481. 8pm. £5. Traditional folk from the Malinky man.
Saturday 16
Glasgow ■ Da Capo Alba St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, 337 2862. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Scotland’s award-winning guitar and mandolin orchestra mixes classical, modern, folk and pop music in impressive style. Tickets available online only, please do not call the Cathedral. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Aye Toons St Silas Episcopal Church, 69 Park Road Woodlands, 337 2276. 8pm. £10. An exciting new folk collaboration from vocalist/pianist/guitarists Yvonne Lyon and Euan Drydale and fiddler Alastair Savage. Part of the West End Festival. ■ The Chieftains SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. 8pm. £35–£37.50. The Chieftains celebrate a staggering 50 years as Ireland’s greatest, classiest and most adventurous traditional music group, having played with everyone from Van Morrison and the Stones via Frank Zappa to John Cage. ■ Communion Records The Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £tbc. Live music club and record label founded by Mumford & Son’s Ben Lovett with a line-up of The Sunshine Social and Pale Seas. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh ■ Scottish Fiddle Orchestra Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £9–£22. Songs, reels, jigs and other fiddle-powered merriment from the orchestra, conducted by Blair Parham. Featuring special guests Craigmount High School Pipe Band and compered by Jim McColl. ■ Sing in the City Choir and Band South Leith Parish Church, 6 Henderson St, Leith, leithfestival.com 7.30pm. £8 (£6). The community choir sings Scottish ballads, pop hits and singalongs in a concert organised by the Rotary Club of Leith, in aid of the Friends of Goboti Appeal, which provides aid to the Eastern cape of Africa. Part of the Leith Festival.
Sunday 17
Glasgow FREE Becci Wallace, Adriaan Blom, Roman Road, Unoma Okudo and dBass Collective The Goat & Grill, 1287 Argyle St, 357 7337. 3pm. Turnkey Music presents this afternoon of folk, soul and jazz. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh ■ The Chieftains Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 8pm. £35–£37.50 + booking fee. See Sat 16.
Monday 18 Glasgow FREE Michael Simons Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. See Mon 28.
Tuesday 19 Glasgow FREE Tom Laurie Hughenden Sports
Club, 32 Hughenden Road, 357 6437. 7.30pm. See Tue 5. ■ One Night Stand with Kate from The Midden Lansdowne Bar & Kitchen, 7a Lansdowne Cresent, 334 4653. 8pm. £3. Acoustic folk night hosted by Kate from Scottish band The Midden. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh ■ This Is The Kit The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register St, 556 7060. 7.15pm. £8. Banjo, guitar and voice from Kate Stables and her band who are signed to The National’s Brassland Records. ■ Ceilidh Club The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 8.30pm. £6. Ceilidh dancing, furious fiddlers and callers to lead you through the steps. Featuring The Scott Leslie Ceilidh Band.
Wednesday 20
Glasgow ■ Don’t Forget Us and One Spirit Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 7.30pm. £8 (£5). A two-part show for Refugee Week. In Don’t Forget Us, Annet Henneman performs songs from Baghdad, Kurdistan, Palestine, Iran and Argentina, with stories of the people and places to whom they belong. In One Spirit, a group of young refugees from Glasgow perform music, parkour and story. Part of Refugee Week. Edinburgh ■ Vin Garbutt Edinburgh Folk Club, Cabaret Bar, 60 The Pleasance, 0870 013 4060. 8pm. £10 (£8; members £6). Witty and honest songwriting.
Thursday 21
Glasgow ■ Kieran Goss Òran Mór, 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £15. Irish singer/songwriter Kieran Goss plays material from his 20 year career. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Taigh Ceilidh Ghlaschu Argyll Hotel, 973 Sauchiehall St, 337 3313. 7.30pm. £2 (£1; students £1). See Thu 24. ■ Vin Garbutt St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 0870 013 4060. 8pm. £10. See Wed 20.
Musique Institut Français Edinburgh ✽✽ FREE La Fete De La d'Ecosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, 225 5366. 4pm. Annual musical celebration of our links with France, involving professional and amateur musicians. the 4pm--8pm slot features various Edinburgh musicians while the second part of the event (from 8.30pm) features talent gathered by singer-songwriter Louis Phillippe. FREE Chris Beckett & Southern Tenant Folk Union Pulp Fiction, 43 Bread St, 229 4444. 7pm. Award- winning sci-fi author Chris Beckett celebrates the recent release of his novel Dark Eden with a reading from the book, a Q&A session and an acoustic set from Edinburgh-based folk/bluegrass band Southern Tenant Folk Union (who released a song last year inspired by his novel The Holy Machine). ■ David Paton, Safehouse, Kenny Herbert & Rab Howat and Soulussion & The Soul Power Horns The Jam House, 5 Queen St, 226 4380. 7pm. £15–£20. Craig Hill hosts this night of jazz, funk, indie and folk with a raffle and auction in aid of Alzheimer Scotland. ■ Whisky Kiss The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register St, 556 7060. 7.30pm. £7. A cool take on traditional Scottish dancing with the ‘ceilidh in a club’ featuring Highland Hotties, breakdancers, trad folk and DJ Grum Stone playing club classics and contemporary house (with the band giving the house hits a ‘tartan twist’).
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Thursday 24
Glasgow BBC SSO: Glass at 75 – Symphony No 6 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £12 plus booking fee. Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and the UK premiere of Glass’s Symphony No 6 featuring soprano Lauren Flanigan. Nicholas Collon conducts. Part of minimal. RCS: The Threepenny Opera Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10.50 (£7.50). Weill and Brecht’s gangster opera. Edinburgh FREE Final Year BMus Recitals Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Bristo Square, 651 3212. 11am-4pm. Student recitals. FREE Live Music Now: Sweet Harmony Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. 6pm. Pieces by Debussy, Purcell, Ivor Novello and Delibes. Edinburgh Grand Opera: Carmen Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay St, 248 4848. 7.15pm. £10–£28. Bizet’s tragedy of bulls, smoking and unrequited love.
Friday 25
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Glasgow Scottish Ensemble: New and Classic Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 1pm. £10.50 (£7.50). Schubert’s Trout Quintet featuring Alasdair Beatson (piano) plus the premiere of Alasdair Spratt’s Bite. Jonathan Morton leads. FREE Colin Walsh Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, 330 4092. 7.30pm. Organ recital. ✽✽ Glass/Kronos: Dracula Sauchiehall St, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £20–£25 (£18–£23). Philip Glass (keyboard) and Kronos play the composer’s score to Browning’s classic movie. Part of minimal. RCS Symphony Orchestra: Invitation to the Danzmayr Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £13.50 (£11). David Danzmayr conducts the student orchestra. RCS: The Threepenny Opera Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £10.50 (£7.50). See Thu 24.
Edinburgh Edinburgh Grand Opera: Carmen Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay St, 248 4848. 7.15pm. £10–£28. See Thu 24. ✽✽ Scottish Opera: Tosca Nicolson St, 529 6000. 7.15pm. £10–£67.50. Starring Susannah Glanville. Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29
Saturday 26 Glasgow RCS: The Threepenny Opera Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 2.30pm & 7.30pm. £10.50 (£7.50). See Thu 24. Junior Conservatoire Wind Orchestra Concert Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew St, 332 5057. 3.30pm. £7 (£5). Student recital. City of Glasgow Chorus Wellington Church, University Avenue, tickets at door. 7pm. £10. Mendelssohn’s Elijah conducted by Graham Taylor and with John Langdon on organ.
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