Celtic Music Radio Album Of The Year Show.
Celtic Music Radio will be announcing our first ever Album of the Year on Boxing Day at noon.
Votes from our listeners are being counted and we can’t wait to reveal a station Album Of The Year for the very first time.
Throughout the year we pick an Album of the Week, sponsored by Cardwell Garden Centre, but this year we decided to launch our search for the year’s top release.
And it has been no easy task with so many brilliant releases to consider – as a result the competition has proved tough as listeners votes came in.
Presenters Kate Reid, John Joe MacNeil, Ross Macfadyen and Liz Clark, will be your hosts for this extra special, four-hour, festive season musical treat.
They have a 46-strong list of contenders and will be playing a track from each album. Other CMR presenters will be pitching in as well, talking about their own favourites from well-known and lesser-known acts.
All in all, music lovers are going to be delighted – so we hope you can tune in and savour some great sounds.
We think you are going to love it.
Reviewed By Kate Reid 12- 1pm –
Click on link to find out more about the artist
Elaine Lennon – Elaine Lennon – 4th Jan 2020
Ewan Henderson – Steall – 8th Feb
Ewan McLennan – Borrowed Songs – 15th Feb
Irish Rovers – Saints And Sinners – 22nd Feb
Peat and Diesel – Light My Byre – 27th Feb
Robert Severin – Postcard from Budapest – 7th March
Taylor & Leigh – Nashville Sessions – 14th March
Linda Jaxon – Sirens – 21st March
Hamish Napier – The Woods – 28th March
Brian McNeill – No Silence – 4th April
Sian – Sian – 11th April
Ross Miller – The Roke – 18th April
David Foley & Jack Smedley – Time To Fly – 25th April
Reviewed By John Joe McNeill 1-2pm
Tide Lines – Eye of the Storm – 2nd May
John Doyle – The Path of Stones – 9th May
Avocet – Lend Your Garden – 23rd May
Tom Fairnie – Lightning In The Dark – 30th May
Luc Daniel McNally – Night Off – 6th June
Colum Sands – Song Bridge – 13th June
John Mulhearn – The Pipe Factory – 20th June
Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain – No Rush – 27th June
Kevin Henderson and Neil Pearlman – Burden Lake – 4th July
Marie Fielding – The Spectrum Project – 11th July
Caroline Keane – Shine – 18th July
Skerryvore – Live Across Scotland – 25th July
Reviewed by Ross Macfadyen 2-3 pm
Fiona Ross & Shane O’Mara – Sunwise Turn – 1st Aug
Paul Dickson – Belle – 8th Aug
The Wilderness Yet – The Wilderness Yet – 15th Aug
Dave Milligan – Momento – 22nd Aug
Lauren MacColl – Landskein – 29th Aug
The Haar – The Haar – 5th Sept
Malcolm MacFarlane & Ross Milligan – Two Rivers Meet – 12th Sept
RURA – Live at The Old Fruitmarket – 19th Sept
Blue Rose Code – With Healings of the Deepest Kind – 26th Sept
Stevie Palmer -We Become The Sunshine – 3rd Oct
Kris Drever – Where The World Is Thin – 10th Oct
Steve Hamilton – Between The Lines – 17th Oct
Ross Ainsley – Vana – 24th Oct
Simply Whistle – Pat Walsh – 31st Oct
Reviewed by Liz Clark 3-4 pm
Barbara Dickson – Time is Going Faster – 7th Nov
Jacob Dinesen – Now Let The Hard Times Come – 14th Nov
Kim Edgar – Held – 21st Nov
Deirdre Graham – Urranta – 28th Nov
Fraser Bruce – Every Song A Story – 5th Dec
Becci Wallace – Present Tense – 12th Dec
Jez Lowe – Crazy Pagan – 19th Dec
Thank you to all the artists who have submitted music to us over the year – looking forward to hearing you live once again in 2021.
If you have any music that you would want us to play on the station – send it to new.music@celticmusicradio.net
We would like to thank our Album of The Week Sponsors Cardwell Garden Centre for supporting the station throughout a very challenging year even while closed during lock down periods
