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‘One Day’, the sixth studio album from Glaswegian acoustic performer Robin Adams, most certainly has a 70s aesthetic throughout. One Day’s artwork presents a doll’s house on its cover, a more than fitting image, since the body of work itself seems to pass through chambers of romantic love, dwell in rooms of quiet reflection and […]
The award-winning Mike Ritchie On Sunday Show reaches a special moment this weekend, March 7th. It will be Mike’s 300th show since his first Sunday broadcast back in August 2014. His two-hour playlists, featuring classic and new Americana, Roots and singer/songwriters have won him a loyal following and twice in three years, a readers’ poll […]
The Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band are delighted to announce their third album release, Road to Glenfinnan, which brings jigs, reels, sing-a-long songs and joy direct to your home at a time when we can’t get out to enjoy ceilidhs. The band is made up of stalwarts from the traditional music scene, equally at home touring the […]
Genre-busting quartet Mec Lir exploded onto the Celtic music scene in 2014 with their debut release Not An EP, launched during their first appearance at one of the world’s largest Celtic music festivals, Festival Interceltique de Lorientin Brittany. Since then they went on to release two singles in 2016, have appeared at festivals all around […]
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), is conducting a review of the radio industry. They are very interested in learning more about who tunes in to community radio stations like Celtic Music Radio, and about when and why they listen. We’d like as many of our listeners as possible to be represented […]
Rachel Walker is a singer, songwriter, arranger and educator based in the heart of Lochaber in Scotland’s beautiful West Highlands. At home with both Gaelic and English, she encountered the Gaelic tradition at a young age, after her family moved from Lincolnshire in England to the small village of Kinlochewe in Wester Ross. It was […]
Join Ross Macfadyen this Saturday 6th February at 12 noon as he talks to The Coaltown Daisies. It’s been 5 years since The Coaltown Dasies released their debut album, This Old House. I couldn’t believe that Listen was only their second full length outing. Here we have a not-so-difficult second CD. There is a theme […]
Stewart Fenwick presented his first Country music programme on November 22nd 1980 on Radio Airthrey at Stirling University. The student run radio station, the only one of its kind in Scotland at the time, broadcast from studios in the basement of Airthrey Castle. It’s from there that Stewart presented “Campus Country” every week, during semester, until […]
Celtic Music Radio presenter, Mike Ritchie, has come out top of a leading music website’s poll for the second time in three years. The Mike Ritchie On Sunday Show has been voted the Best Radio Show 2020 in a readers’ poll run by the influential Americana-UK website. Mike’s show goes out every Sunday between 4 […]
Veteran presenters Gordon Hotchkiss and Liz Clark have no plans to change a formula that’s worked magic on the airwaves for the past ten years. That’s why the doughty duo once again will be Bringing in the Bells live on Celtic Music Radio with their three-hour Hogmanay Show, starting at 10 pm on the last […]
