News Vale of Leven
Award-winning jazz ensemble, ROSE ROOM are celebrating their 15th anniversary year – and their latest release, It’s Been A Long Long Time, marks their creative time together perfectly. Led by award-winning virtuoso violinist, vocalist and broadcaster, Seonaid Aitken with Scotland’s No.1 guitar maker Jimmy Moon on double bass, Danny Kyle Award-winning Tam Gallagher on […]
LAB RAPS is a bold and inventive album embracing hip-hop, classical, jazz and folk that features a wide range of rappers and instrumentalists. Produced by The Glasgow Barons regeneration orchestra, Lab Raps is an experimental project commissioned by orchestral conductor, Paul MacAlindin. The 12-track album confidently offers tracks of Gaelic mouth music alongside songs […]
Jenn Butterworth’s striking and accomplished debut album HER BY DESIGN delivers songs and stories women at their centre. The topics vary but Jenn is hopeful that “everyone can find some resonance, strength and solace” in them. Award-winner Jenn, well known for her work as one of the world’s finest exponents of traditional folk guitar, […]
Ainsley Hamill’s much anticipated third album FABLE – launched at Celtic Connections this year – is a sublime and memorable collection of songs inspired by Scottish folklore and myth. Ainsley’s musical output is deeply influenced by the cultural heritage of Scotland and a profound love for both Scottish Gaelic and Scots songs. In this […]
Boo and Yvonne Singer/songwriters Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine are releasing an album titled, Things Found in Books, on March 28. And they will be telling Ian Oliphant all about it on the Lunchtime Selection today at midday. In Culzean Castle’s second-hand bookshop hangs a notice board that collects the store’s greatest stories including lost […]
Former Scottish rugby international, BBC Radio Scotland broadcaster and musician, John Beattie, is Moira Kerr’s guest on her Sounds Celtic show this week. The chat – and a terrific selection of music – will take place between 10 am and midday. • Sounds Celtic – with Moira Kerr – 10 am to noon, with […]
When award-winning Dean Owens launched SPIRIT RIDGE at Celtic Connections in Glasgow he won a well-deserved standing ovation at the end of the final song – and no wonder. This is a deeply personal collection that reflects in a gently dramatic manner his links with lush Italian hills, the US desert states as well […]
Donald WG Lindsay The guest on today’s edition of the Lunchtime Selection is Donald WG Lindsay of Lindstruments. Donald, who developed the Lindsay System Chanter for Scottish small pipes, played at the National Piping Centre along with Alasdair Roberts during Celtic Connections earlier this year. He is in the process of recording an album […]
The Heilan’ Coo Boys join Ian Oliphant on this Wednesday’s Lunchtime Selection to chat about their latest album. The duo – Linton Osborne (ex-Nazareth lead singer) and John Ford on lead guitar – have just released Whiskey & Din, their 2nd album. Ian said: “The single from the album ‘Whisky Makes Me Dance’ has […]
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 […]
