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Firelight Trio, who play inventive and endlessly exciting folk music, release their self-titled album at Celtic Connections this week (January 25.) Ruth Morris, Gavin Marwick and Phil Alexander will join Liz Clark – Auntie Liz – for a chat on the show this evening (January 24.) The trio, with driving fiddle and gorgeous nyckelharpa meeting […]
She has an autobiography and a new album coming out, and here she is, a couple of days shy of her 70th birthday, edging us along a bittersweet, rugged, emotion-laden song route where no-one delivers quite like her. The revered Lucinda Williams has gritty, dust-blown grief and heartache down to perfection in her imperious catalogue […]
When a concert’s support act is as good as Basco – a four-man trad-based band based in Denmark – you know you’re in for a treat. Hal Parfitt Murray (fiddle, mandolin, vocals) is Scots by birth Australian by upbringing, and Ale Carr (cittern) is Swedish. The other half of the band, Andreas Tophoj (violin/viola) and […]
The announcer jokingly referred to this as a night of “Beauty and the Beast” – Ellie Beaton’s voice and presentation amply filled the “Beauty” category and Archie Fisher proved yet again that, at the age of 83, he’s still one of Scottish folk music’s “big beasts.” Ellie is a former BBC Young Trad Singer finalist, […]
There is not a single moment in this flawless gig involving three high-calibre multi-instrumentalists that ever dips below the level of scintillating. Headliners, award-winning married couple, Sierra Hull (on her third visit to the city) and Justin Moses (making his debut here) play with a flow and intensity that quickly convinces us their love of […]
Celtic Connections On Campus is back live for its seventh year, hosted by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) in association with Celtic Music Radio and TRADtv. GCU’s Glasgow campus is hosting five free lunchtime concerts from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th January, starting at 12:30 and they will be broadcast live on on Celtic Music Radio. Here […]
One of Shetland’s finest and most accomplished modern-day fiddlers, Jenna Reid, is set to release, One Day, her sixth album. And it will be launched on January 25 in The Recital Rooms of The City Halls, Glasgow during Celtic Connections 2023. This evening (Tuesday, January 17, 2023) she will be in conversation with Liz Clark […]
Celtic Connections On Campus is back live for its seventh year, hosted by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) in association with Celtic Music Radio and TRADtv. GCU’s Glasgow campus is staging five free lunchtime concerts from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th January, starting at 12:30. These are sparkling showcase events featuring some of the brightest up-and-coming talent […]
Inverness fiddler and composer Graham Mackenzie will launch his second studio album The Dawning this month.And tonight (January 10) he will be discussing it with Liz Clark on Travels With Auntie Liz. This is his second record – it is released on January 27 – and it’s been inspired by the beauty of the Scottish […]
Singer/songwriter Kim Edgar has been involved in an inspiring project, co-writing with a dozen songwriters she admires. And the unique partnerships can now be heard on her album, Consequences, which will be launched at Saint Luke’s in Glasgow on February 3. Tonight (January 3, 2022) Kim will be discussing the Mattie Foulds-produced record, the collaborations […]
