Sep 6, 2010

Mary K Burke’s guest on Sunday 19 September will be Karen Whitelaw Smith when she will speak about The Butterfly Experience.

Listeners are invited to email, phone-in the studio on 0141 548 4041 or text the studio on 07588 15 1530 during the programme with their questions.

Karen Whitelaw Smith  is one of the leading coaches in personal development and has built her reputation by word of mouth as The Positive Thinking Expert, Inspirational Speaker, Therapist, Personal & Spiritual Development Coach and International Author of The Butterfly Experience — Inspiration For Change. She has a unique talent of helping you connect with your soul. Karen has been featured on television and radio and in the press.

Karen lives in the south side of Glasgow and consults from Glasgow and London. Passionate about positive thinking, she has dedicated her life to transforming, improving and healing the lives of people from many different backgrounds and has spent years researching the secrets of success, and now teaches her own techniques.

Karen’s aim is to impart universal laws, knowledge and spiritual wisdom through to enable people to fulfil their ambitions and lead happy, abundant lives. She has worked with the world’s top mind-body-spirit leaders.

 Through The Butterfly Experience coaching and presentations she teaches others to use their intuition; positive thinking; listen to their own body; how to cope with stress; have an attitude of gratitude; understand how the mind works; visualisation and to attract abundance; self-relaxation techniques; affirmations and how to discipline your life.

Join Mary K Burke and Karen Whitelaw Smith from 7.00pm on Sunday 19 September.

Sep 2, 2010

Joining Mary K Burke this Sunday 5 September is Glasgow singer and songwriter Ian Davison.   (Sunday 5.00-7.00pm)

Ian has been described as ‘the song-writers’ songwriter’.  He originally helped organise and perform in Scottish folk clubs, especially in Glasgow and Rutherglen, Lanarkshire.

Ian is known mostly as a top songwriter with almost 300 songs in traditional and modern styles, half of them written in the 1990s.   His songs are being sung in clubs and festivals all over the world and recorded by artists like Peggy Seeger, Archie Fisher, Adam MacNaughton, Ed Miller, Brian McNeill and Toni Wood.

Ian has won every song-writing competition in Scotland including all of them in one year, and retired from competition a number of years ago.

He also teaches song-writing at festivals and university adult classes and judges song-writing competitions and is an active member of the Glasgow Song-Writers Club and Glasgow’s ‘Live at the Star’ folk club.

As a performer, Ian has sung on both radio and television, in folk, poetry and music clubs and festivals in Scotland, Ireland and England. Many years ago his group did the first recording of the popular ‘Jeelie-Piece Song’ and performed frequently as support to famous names like Tom Paxton, Matt McGinn, Billy Connolly, The Corries, Christy Moore and Eric Bogle.

In less than 10 recent years Ian has produced several CDs of newly written songs, and a double CD and a triple CD packs containing ‘Best of…’ from which some tracks are regularly broadcast.

Visit Ian’s MySpace page.

Carissa Bovill (pictured above) from the southside of Glasgow will be joining Ian in the studio as they are working on various projects together.  Carissa was the ‘castaway’ on last week’s Dorris Island on Ciaran’s Sunday Session.  Music has always hugely influenced Carissa’s life. She began taking piano and fiddle lessons both classical and traditional at the age of 8. She now teaches Scottish music and song at the Junior RSAMD every Saturday.

Sep 2, 2010

This Sunday, September 5 on the Stewart Fenwick Country Show there will will a special chat with Liverpool based singer Charlie Landsborough who is currently on tour and will appear in Glasgow on Thursday 21 October at The City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow.

Stewart will be chatting to Charlie on his current tour and his CD release ‘Nothing Lasts Forever.’

Stewart Fenwick Country, Sunday 5 September, 12noon-2.00pm

Aug 25, 2010

Hi listeners, (writes Mary K. Burke) just back on Sunday night from a fabulous holiday in Co. Cavan at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2010 (Festival of Music in Ireland). 

The Fleadh Cheoil saw 250,000 people desend on the town of Cavan and  I do have some footage of the musicians many of whom were young children who played on the streets and in the bars  and everywhere you turned.

This was the biggest Fleadh (festival) I have ever witnessed and at times it wasn’t as enjoyable as it could have been had there been less people and indeed less noisy people who were not really interested in music.  However, I did manage to catch some great sessions and interviewed John A. Blakey artist and author of a new childrens book ‘The Tales of Lundraver The Dragon’ which is set to be turned into a film with the soundtrack being performed by The Chieftains.   The characters in the book are based on people John met over the last 30 years as an artist and is a truly magical story. I’ll be telling you more about this in the coming shows on Celtic Music Radio and I will also post some video clips to my Facebook page.

My new Goldwing I wish!

Interviews and programme guests on the Listen Again section.

I have just uploaded two interviews from my archive of interviews that have not been aired yet. One with Roya MacLean and the other with Lorcan Mathona and  also a live in the studio session featuring Alisdair Ogilvy & Steve Adams.   Visit the Listen Again page.          

I have quite a few shows to edit and upload so watch this space.

And a special thanks to Danny Matheson who covered my show in my absence.   Paul and I will be back on Sunday 29 August 7.00 to 9.00pm on Celtic Music Radio and look forward to your company.

Mary K Burke.

This has been an ordinary week.  We managed to lose things so I thought of Matt McGinn and The Red Yo Yo.  This will lead me to follow on with other children’s songs and songs about children.

Form this start I started thinking about the youth work in church and this led me to play a song by Steven Brown a minister from Fraserburgh where we will be visiting next month.   Of course I’ll be playing songs about the sea and fishing and dreams.  The only way to find out more is to listen at 8.00 on Thursday or to one of the repeats.

Remember if you have any ideas for themes for my programme you can contact me via email at:john.collings@celticmusicradio.net or find me on Facebook.  I’m not guaranteeing to use all the ideas I receive but I’ll try to use some of them.

Aug 24, 2010

Gordon Hotchkiss has broadcast with Celtic Music Radio from its first day at Celtic Connections in 2006.

Gordon now presents Hotchkiss Hotchpotch featuring on Wednesday at 7pm with a wide mixture of mainly Scottish and Irish artists and music.

Join the craic by emailing Gordon in the studio at : studio@celticmusiradio.net or Text 07588 151530

Gordon also hosts the Homeward Bound Show showcasing a wide range of music on Friday from 3pm.

Gordon’s Hotchpotch is repeated at 1am and 1pm on Thursday for all our friends around the world.