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Stonehaven Folk Club’s Sense of the Place celebrates in style the culture, heritage and songs of the North-East. With award-winning folk musicians involved each of the ten tracks has a grounding in the coastal communities’ strip from Findon to St Cyrus and deftly explores what it is like to live on the fringes, the margins, […]
Scottish musician Scott Murray celebrated his 75th birthday in some style – by recording this marvellous album a few days later. With a background in folk, he has opted to extend his scope here in fine style to embrace R&B and jazz, genres he was interested prior to his folk days. Dave Milligan (with Karen […]
Station presenter, John Joe MacNeil has struck gold at this year’s Royal National Mod in Inverness. Awarded the prestigious An Comunn Gàidhealach Gold Medal, John Joe said: “I’m really delighted, I’ve been working on my songs for a long time so it’s lovely to be able to be back singing on a stage. “It was […]
HEISK is the self-titled, debut release from the all-female Scottish trad group where traditional influences blend with funk and pop. The six-piece regard their music as a celebration of female empowerment as it was created, produced and released by women after they noticed a lack of female representation in trad music. The energetic band comprises six […]
Celtic Music Radio will be unable to broadcast on DAB in the Glasgow area for the next couple of months. The station is facing ongoing, external technical issues and, hopefully, it can resume the service at some stage. But our festival of music can still be enjoyed on 95FM in the Glasgow area. And there […]
Tennessee based singer/songwriter, Nathan Bell is currently touring the UK promoting his absorbing new release, Red White and American Blues (it couldn’t happen here.) The 13 tracks on the album feature roots and rock, blues, jazz and folk, all delivered in a sleeves-rolled-up, honest and uplifting way. While it’s not a protest album it does […]
Station presenter Kate Reid releases her latest single this week (Friday October 1) – an enchanting version of The Beatles’ 1965 song, Yes It Is. And she will be chatting about it all on the Friday Mix with Andy Hood on Friday at 9.40 am (live) and will follow this up later in the day […]
Our board of directors’ chair, Alex Jenkins, really deserves to be sitting with his feet up after walking more than 20 miles to raise hundreds of pounds for the station on Sunday (September 26). Starting Scotland’s Kiltwalk 2021 event just after 10 am he took his final steps more than seven hours later at 5.15 […]
While we have no idea if he’s got legs for the kilt or not, the chair of our board of directors, Alex Jenkins, is all set to stride out at Scotland’s Kiltwalk 2021 event on Sunday, September 26 to raise funds for Celtic Music Radio. The station is set to relocate to new studios so extra […]
We are pleased to be broadcasting a special show on Friday, August 20 in memory of our fellow volunteer and dear friend, Allan Broom, who died earlier this month. An early edition of The Broom Cupboard that we’ve found in our files will air between 11 and 1 pm, highlighting Allan’s warm style and knowledge […]
