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Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton are both well established and celebrated Scottish musicians – they are also cousins. This the first piece of music they have made as a duo, despite having played music together both informally and professionally over the years as part of various groups and projects. They have come together to […]
Celtic Music Radio has two tickets to give away for the main concert at the Wee Fife Folk Festival taking place on October 26 in Dunfermline’s Carnegie Hall with a 6.30 pm start. They are courtesy of Andrew Gordon of the hugely popular Scots folk trio, Skelpt, whose current release, Ersten is a red […]
Scottish Singer/Songwriter AMY PAPIRANSKY releases her new album Friday’s Daughter on October 18 – and she’ll be chatting about the songs on this week’s edition of Gerry’s Jukebox with host, Gerry Maguire. Glasgow-based Amy – she’s from Keith, originally – has found time between gigging with top acts such as KT Tunstall, Jill Jackson […]
Esteemed Scottish traditional and Gaelic singer and multi-instrumentalist Ewen Henderson is set to release his thought-provoking new album Lèirsinn – Perception this month (October 18). It features pairs of compositions based on real locations, from two different perspectives: the imagined and the experienced. Half of the album was recorded at his home studio with […]
The Glasgow Americana Festival kicks of next week with four venues staging more than 20 shows. It is in its 18th year and since the first when Mary Gauthier, Robbie Fulks and Oh Susannah were in the line-up, it has grown in stature and popularity. Over the years, Sturgill Simpson, Steve Forbert, Tom Russell, […]
For their tantalising debut album, Auld Springs New, Morag Brown and Lewis Powell-Reid have distilled the music they’ve been brewing for over a decade. The duo play a rich rand rewarding repertoire of acoustic instrumental music from Scottish traditions along with many others and this shared intuition and love of spontaneity allows them to freely move between melody, […]
It’s fair to say that Esther Rose’s recent UK tour was a huge success and on the day of her final show in Glasgow, the New Mexico-based singer-songwriter took time to team up with Mike Ritchie to record an interview and play a couple of tracks live in our studios at Braehead. The results […]
Indie, folk-rock, and psych-pop band TRUE GENTS boldly and imaginatively weave together swirling melodies, driving rhythms and the essence of the Scottish wilderness in their music. It’s an inventive approach that’s won them many admirers since they were formed by school friends Euan Nicol and Toby Jeffery in 2006. There’s a haunting highland atmosphere […]
President of the Inverclyde Music Festival, Isabel Lind is this week’s guest on Gerry’s Jukebox (Wednesday, September 18). Her association with the festival is long-standing. She first took part in 1961 as a competitor with Greenock High School and from 1972 as a sponsor of pupils from four different schools. In 1996, she was […]
Simon Kempston is ‘one of Scotland’s very best songwriters’ (The Sunday Herald), a composer and leading finger style guitarist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His new album, My Dreams Are Theirs is our Album of the Week. My Dreams Are Theirs is an exquisite reflection of one person’s creative talents, of which there seems no boundaries. […]
