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SCOTTISH singers Rachel Walker and Aaron Jones are this weekend’s guests on The Bothy Society. They will be talking about their new, five-track charity EP, A Happy Place, one year on from Rachel being diagnosed with breast cancer. The duo hope that the music will help people talk about cancer and the support that’s available, while raising some valuable […]
Award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter Dean Owens loves the heat, dust, beauty, danger plus border ghosts and legends of the deserts in the American southwest. And this lure clearly shows in the highly-anticipated release of Sinner’s Shrine, recorded with musicians from iconic desert noir Latin rockers, Calexico at WaveLab Studio in Tucson. Over eleven evocative tracks, Dean […]
Celtic Music Radio is beginning a new era with the opening of its studios at the Braehead Centre, one of Scotland’s premier shopping malls. We believe this is the first time in the UK a radio station will be broadcasting from a shopping centre. Alex Jenkins, chair of the board of directors at Celtic Music […]
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 […]
Since 2006, Celtic Music Radio has brought you The Danny Kyle Open Stage to you live from Celtic Connections. Due to Covid, The Danny Kyle Open Stage will take place online this year, accessible via our webstream here, 95FM across Glasgow, mobile apps, Alexa and The Danny Kyle Open Stage website Danny Kyle was a […]
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 […]
The search for Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Year is under way. A strong list of contenders – all graced the Album of the Week slot over the year – has been compiled and now we are looking for listeners’ votes. The top album will be revealed in a special, four-hour programme that starts […]
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 […]
