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GARY KERR Gary Kerr from Paisley-based LNP Promotions is a special guest on Gerry’s Jukebox today. Gary, chair and treasurer of LNP Promotions, will be talking all about exciting news on the Paisley music scene. This includes a move to bring live music to Re:Hope, one of Paisley’s best kept secrets. Gary reckons it […]
This Wednesday’s edition of the Lunchtime Selection with Ian Oliphant sees musician Raymond Weir popping in for a chat and to play some new music. Raymond performs under the name of The Eisenhowers. Their new four-track EP, ‘The Calm Beyond The Storm’ has just been released and Raymond will feature the new single from […]
Ofcom’s Community Radio Fund Panel has awarded Celtic Music Radio a £30,000 grant – the station’s biggest ever public funding boost. The successful application was hailed by chair of Celtic Music Radio’s board of directors, Alex Jenkins, as ‘terrific news for all volunteers and station listeners.’ Alex said: “This major funding boost […]
This is the fifth duo album from The Quiggs and it’s a vibrant mix of old and new songs, a few traditional, a couple of self-penned ones and songs by other songwriters past and present. It’s a collection – recorded at Kevock Digital Studio with Ian McCalman behind the desk – offering strong melodies […]
THE QUIGGS The Nova Scotia Folk Club is generally well-attended. On this occasion it was packed to the gunwales with the normal contingent of members supplemented by other Quiggs fans including a sprinkling of the area’s folk aristocracy. Stephen Quigg has more than paid his dues on the Scottish folk scene. For more than […]
The journey to MotherLand has been a long one that started for Daria Kulesh with her debut album Eternal Child released 10 years ago this month. MotherLand is her first, full-length, solo album since 2019 and it’s a product of surviving lockdowns as a new mum, a visceral reaction to our increasingly unstable and […]
Dervish came on stage to a rapturous reception that never diminished throughout the evening’s entertainment. I use the word ‘entertainment’ advisedly as Cathy Jordan showed herself a mistress of stagecraft with a stream of witty banter that had the auditorium in stitches. Around the banter, there was an alternation of skilfully performed sets of […]
DEAN OWENS Dean Owens believes in is heart that music is all about connections – and this marvellous Celtic Connections’ gig shows he knows how to make that happen with shades of fun and sadness, big sounds and tender interludes and a top-class, wide-ranging career set list. His music is thoughtfully compassionate and impassioned. […]
The Danny Kyle Open Stage comes to an end this evening with performances from the final six acts chosen to be awarded a ‘Danny.’ Taking to the stage today are: Alma Cuan a Tuath (North Sea) Dàna Darach Liam Docherty Woodlands Show producer and presenter, Liz Clark, said: “All 70 acts who performed […]
There was no messing about, no preamble, just straight in with the version of Black Is the Colour that had won her Best Traditional Song at the BBC Folk Awards in 2002. Then she moved seamlessly on to Coming Home and proceeded, with an enchanting blend of story, poetry, and song, to conjure up […]
