Schedule 22nd Jan
11-12:30 Festival News and Music – Presenter – Gerry Maquire
12:30-14:00 CC on Campus in the GCU Students Association building
Barry Nisbet / Edinburgh College Traditional Music Band/ Figgins-Garden
Anna Garvin
14:00 – Stewart Fenwick – Guest Kathy Mattea
15:00 – Festival New and Music – Presenter Gordon
16:00 – Gordon Hotchkiss – Niamh MacKaveney
17:00-19:00 Danny Kyle Open Stage –
Produced and Presented by Liz Clark for Celtic Connections
Kathy Mattea
”Hailed by The Washington Post as “one of Nashville’s finest song interpreters”, Kathy Mattea has enjoyed two Grammy wins, four CMA Awards, four #1 country singles, five gold albums and a platinum. The dream almost ended however, and following a period that Mattea has described as her ‘dark night of the soul’, she recently released the most poignant album of her career, Pretty Bird, which chronicles her journey, song by song, back to singing”
Appearing at Celtic Connections on 23rd January in The Mitchell Theatre
Niamh MacKaveney Trio
”Formed amid Glasgow’s richly vibrant folk scene, this youthful line-up packs in an impressive array of styles and influences for just three musicians. A former Mod medallist, and recent BMus graduate from Glasgow University, in violin and Gaelic song, Highland-born Niamh MacKaveney is joined by classically-schooled Italian fiddler David Lombardi, who’s also studied traditional music in Ireland and Sweden, and French guitarist Jean Damei – also known through his Event Horizon project with Géza Frank – whose influences include Celtic, jazz and funk. Their mix of expertise, inventiveness and joie de vivre creates a winningly distinctive sound.”
Appearing at Celtic Connections Tues 22nd Jan – Strathclyde Suite