Feb 28, 2013
We have a BRAND NEW show for you, starting this Friday.
Bonnie North presents Due North from 10pm until midnight.
So, there’s no need to leave the house now on a Friday.
Make sure you have your supplies
> in, turn on your wireless from 6pm until midnight!
6pm is Al’s Show with Alan Grant
8pm join Ross for Thank Folk It’s Friday
10pm point your wirless Due North with Bonnie North (produced by Robin ap Clericus)
Feb 16, 2013
Celtic Music Radio 1530AM has begun its second Radiothon to lead up to the city’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations in March, culminating in two days of live broadcasts from the Merchant Square, Candleriggs, Glasgow.
Celtic Music Radio held its first Radiothon in the summer 2012, based on the American fundraising model. The support from the community of musicians was beyond expectations and from listeners was very heartening indeed. The focus of the event was to encourage listeners and supporters to make small monthly donations.
The station’s second Radiothon is underway with the focus being to put
the charitable community radio station on a firm footing for their upcoming transfer to the FM dial later this year.
Celtic Music Radio is looking to raise £22,000 by the end of March to allow it to move ahead.
Chairperson, Alex Jenkins says: “Celtic Music Radio is a registered charity and relies on donations from listeners and members of our musical community to survive.
To run the station costs around £20,000 per year with nobody taking a wage. Our advertising income has not covered this, therefore over the years, a historic debt has accrued. We need to address this soon and need your help.
In order to address this and to move forward before our transition to FM later in 2013, we need to raise £22,000 in the next couple of months.
Alex added: “We will then be in the position to move forward with our plans to swap our 1530AM transmissions for a better quality FM signal.”
Celtic Music Radio has undertaken some unusual fundraising events including one by Ross Macfadyen, a presenter and director, learning the accordion and performing on the Danny Kyle Open Stage during Celtic Connections.
Many musicians have donated items for auction on the station’s eBay site and one listener bid £195 for the chance to produce their own show on Celtic Music Radio.
Liz Clark, director said: “We believe Celtic Music Radio to be unique in the service it provides to both practising musicians, who have no other outlet for their music, and to our supporters and listeners, who seem very appreciative of the station. During Celtic Connections we registered our highest online audience ever at 39,000 online listeners. We are hopeful that each listener will make either a one off or monthly donation to Celtic Music Radio.”
To make a donation, please click on the DONATE button on the right of the page.
Jan 3, 2013
The first Celtic Music Radio Album of the Week for 2013 is the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards Album of the Year awarded to Kathleen MacInnes (pictured below) for her new release “Cille Bhride” (Kilbride).
Mixed and mastered by Paul McGeechan, it is the second album from Kathleen MacInnes showcasing her superb and unique vocal style with excellent accompaniments.
A native of South Uist, Kathleen performs primarily in Scottish Gaelic. The title Cille Bhride is a township of South Uist in the Hebrides. It also translates to Kilbride or Church of St Bride.
The CD has an extensive full colour booklet which has Gaelic lyrics with potted history of the songs and English translations.
After hearing her distinctive thoaty voice, Ridley Scott asked Kathleen to feature on the soundtrack of his film Robin Hood in 2010.
Kathleen is a Scots Traditional Music Award Gaelic singer of the Year 2006 and in December 2012, Scots Trad Album of the Year award winner.
It is the Album of the Week commencing Saturday 5 January 2013 and will be featured in most programmes on Celtic Music Radio during the week.
Ross Macfadyen talks to Kathleen about her music and this CD release. It was recorded before the Trad Awards in Fort William on 8 December 2012.
Purchase a copy of ‘Cille Bhride’ here.
Album of the Week, Saturdays 12noon and 12midnight and Monday 7 January 2013 at 6.00pm and Catch Up anytime.
Dec 15, 2012
The Celtic Music Radio Album of the Week commencing Saturday 15 December is from Glasgow band The Public House Orchestra with their festive offering called ‘A Country Folk Christmas’.
Celtic Music Radio’s Ross Macfadyen talks to band leader Paul Hughes about the album, gigs and the Glasgow music scene.
Paul presented a regular late night programme on Celtic Music Radio during 2010-2011 until work commitments put a halt to that activity. We are hopeful Paul will find the time to return to Celtic Music Radio in the future.
The Public House Orchestra is a two piece band playing all types of roots and acoustic music from blues and soul to folk, country and rock and even the odd bit of dance music thrown in.
While they play their own material they also do covers sets to prevent some of their livelier audiences from falling asleep in their Pimms!
The band includes Brian Dillon (on double bass, vox), Paul Hughes (Cajon foot drums, guitar, vox).
The Public House Orchestra’s Christmas Album is out now. It’s a rootsy, acoustic, Hank Williams take on some Christmas classics that reached number three in the Amazon Country Chart.
It is available for download everywhere including at Amazon. Please note this is the rebranded, remastered now on high quality CD version of the “Cathkin Braes Ramblers” issue.
If you’d like a CD copy of the album then email: publichouseorchestra@hotmail.co.uk
The Public House Orchestra Christmas Saturday Nights Out are playing two Saturday night bumper festive gigs.
There will probably be a “guest mic” as well if anyone fancies getting up to sing-a-song as well!
Tonight, Saturday 15 December - MacSorley’s Music Bar, 42 Jamaica Street, Glasgow G1 4QG.
Saturday 22 December - Wintersgills, 226 Great Western Road, St George’s Cross, Glasgow G4 9EJ
Both gigs start at 9.00pm. If you’re out and about drop by and have a ‘Country Folk Christmas’ and party tunes galore.
Album of the Week, Saturday 12noon and 12midnight and Monday 17 December 6.00pm plus Catch Up anytime.
Dec 8, 2012
We have just added some new items to our eBay store.
Click on picture below to view them.
Nov 24, 2012
The Celtic Music Radio Album of the Week commencing Saturday 24 November 2012 is the new CD from Jamie Smith’s Mabon called ‘Windblown’.
Ross Macfadyen talks to Jamie about the band’s new CD, the songs and the background to Welsh band Mabon.
Jamie Smith’s Mabon are Wales’ finest purveyors of original ‘InterCeltic’ music. As comfortable on a world music stage as in a folk setting, theirs is a music that travels beyond borders to explore the forms and styles of the Celtic traditions and work then anew.
Through songs and melodies, from thoughtful lyrics to joyful jigs, graceful mazurkas to ecstatic muñera, here is a band that can take you on an emotional journey. More than just a show, more than inspired composition and skilful arrangement, you can expect to witness the joy of creating music expressed in dynamic, virtuosic performance.
Tunesmith, accordionist and lead singer Jamie is joined at the front of the stage by fiddler Oliver Wilson-Dickson (of Ian Macmillan Orchestra and Zsapora renown) and by Adam Rhodes on bouzouki. Recordings and occasional concerts also feature special guest Calum Stewart, Scotland’s leading exponent of the wooden flute.
The band first formed in 1999 when Jamie Smith, his father Derek, Iolo Whelan and his brother Gareth began exploring the more dynamic side of traditional Welsh and other Celtic dance music in an acoustic quartet of fiddle, accordion, guitar and percussion.
Soon, Jamie started to experiment with composition, and the traditional Celtic tunes of Mabon’s early days gradually made way for his own creations, influenced both by traditional music and by other, more contemporary Celtic artists.
Reviewers of the new CD ‘Windblown’
“Smith is at his best singing in Welsh on the brooding, then epic Caru Pum Merch.” The Guardian.
“so thrilling live…Windblown makes a fair fist of bottling the magic” – Financial Times (4*)
“For exuberance, panache and spontaneous musicianship, all carried out with a refreshingly mature restraint and within the context of necessarily skilful arrangement, it will be pretty hard to beat Jamie Smith’s Mabon for impact.” – FATEA magazine.
“Windblown is the best JSM album to date and points them in an interesting and promising new direction” – spiralearth.co.uk
Buy a copy of the Mabon ‘Windblown’ album through our Amazon link here.
Album of the Week, Saturdays 12noon and 12midnight and Monday 26 November at 6.00pm and Catch Up anytime.
