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John Joe MacNeil launches his new programme – John Joe MacNeil Live – today, featuring the finest folk, traditional and Gaelic music, as well as a host of special guests. On his first show on a Monday, John Joe will welcome singer/songwriter, Abigail Pryde in the opening hour of the programme with the first play […]

Ian Oliphant will be welcoming East Kilbride-based singer-songwriter, Chris Rogers as his guest on the Afternoon Selection on Monday, March 14.Originally from Wrexham in North Wales, Chris emigrated to Scotland in 1982 and has been active in the Scottish folk scene since the 1990s.He is a former member of Kagan and three-time winner of the […]

FLO is a brand new instrumental album written, performed and produced by Dougie MacLean and Jamie MacLean In Butterstone Studios during the autumn and winter 2021. Dougie MacLean combines forces with son Jamie MacLean who is an accomplished composer, musician and recording artist in his own right. His first solo release was the album Footsteps From Home which provided the […]

We are pleased to be at the heart of the Glasgow St Patrick’s Festival Family Fun Day once again this weekend (March 12). Our team of presenters will be broadcasting from Merchant Square in Candleriggs between midday and 5 pm as part of the celebrations. There’s going to be a range of live music and […]

This sparkling James Duncan Mackenzie album was two years in the making and has emerged as a collection that captures the atmosphere of his Isle of Lewis home. An acclaimed piper, wooden flute and whistle player, James wrote and mostly recorded Fìbhig – named after a small village on the west side of the Isle […]

Self-proclaimed modern trad fusion band, DLÙ are getting well-deserved attention and praise for their debut album, Moch that means ‘the start of things, a dawning’ in English.  The gifted five-piece have created a vibrant, uplifting and exceptionally eclectic collection showcasing a quality that became evident when they were nominated for the MG Alba Scots Trad […]

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 […]