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Celtic Connections 2022 is in continuing to attract great talent and this year’s hybrid programme spans around 60 lively in-person concerts, a number of intimate filming sessions, an exciting digital offering and a number of talks and exhibitions with more than 500 artists involved across the festival. Among them is Irish alt-folk act MOXIE who appear with […]
Wishing you a healthy and happy New Year from all of us at Celtic Music Radio.
Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Year is ONE DAY by Glasgow acoustic performer, ROBIN ADAMS. His sixth studio album – recorded in the singer/songwriter’s Southside tenement home – yields quiet observational songs of life and love with a 70s aesthetic throughout. The station’s Album of the Week on March 5, it is delicately low […]
Four hours of outstanding music is lined up for our Album of the Year Show that starts at midday (Monday, December 27.) Presenters Ross Macfadyen, Nikki Lyle, John Joe MacNeil, Colm Keegan and Kate Reid will host this special treat, playing tracks from the albums in the running for the top title. The range of […]
Piobaireachd / Pipe Music is the excellent new recording by piper and multi-instrumentalist, Fraser Fifield. It’s an absorbing collection of 11 tracks that was recorded following a deep lockdown re-examination of what he calls “that ancient, slightly mysterious music associated with the Scottish bagpipe.” Piobaireachd / Pipe Music, supported by Creative Scotland’s Sustaining Creative Development […]
‘Nollaig’ is the new Christmas EP recently released by award-winning performers and composers, Marit and Rona – and they will join John Joe MacNeil for a chat about it on Tuesday Tunes today (December 14). It is an intriguing mix of traditional and newly-composed Gaelic traditional Music from Marit Fält (Nordic Mandola), Rona Wilkie (Fiddle/ […]
Scottish songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm MacWatt is rightly rated as a unique voice in the vibrant field of British Americana. Latest release, Settler, reflects his lifelong love of American music and culture, while his gracious, song writing and appealing vocals carry echoes of his Highland upbringing when Scottish folk tales and traditional music were a […]
Glasgow-based singer/songwriter Becci Wallace will make a special appearance on this weekend’s (Dec 12) Mix Tape with Kate Reid. She will be chatting about her new (anti) Christmas single, Ghost and the striking, accompanying video. “I’m so pleased Becci is on the show as she is a trail blazer and someone I really admire,” said […]
Janice Burns and Jon Doran will be talking about their shared love of traditional music on Travels With My Auntie Liz this week – Tuesday, December 7 between 8 and 10 pm. The Anglo-Scottish duo, who were among the award winners at The Danny Kyle Open Stage at Celtic Connections 2021, will chat about what […]
John Murry is intense with a dogged edginess that makes his gigs so memorable. On his latest visit to Glasgow he kept his Nice’n’Sleazy audience on their toes with hushed or full-cry vocals and searing guitar powered along with heft by bass player, Ellen O’Reilly and drummer, Johnny Boyle, a sparkling rhythm section that added […]
