Sep 4, 2010

A combination of one of the best songbooks in Scots acoustic music, and a feast of music, song and dance from Russia.

Don’t miss this chance to see world renowned, thrilling and colourful Russian traditional music, song and dance from the world famous “Don Cossack Balalaika” from Rostov on Don, in concert with the Ideal Band, one of Scotland’s most exciting recent line-ups.

You can catch them in St Andrew’s In The Square, Glasgow or Eastwood Park Theatre, Giffnock.

You can see this event tomorrow night (Sunday 5th Sept) at St Andrew’s In The Square. Concert starts at 8pm. Tickets are available from www.ticketsoup.com

Celtic Music Radio will be along at the Eastwood Park Theatre on Saturday 11th September from 8pm.
Why not come and join us? Tickets are available from the Box office 0141 577 4970.

Aug 10, 2010

Celtic Music Radio will be joining the fun at the Cowal Gathering at Dunoon on Saturday 28 August from 1.00 until 6.00pm.

The Cowal Gathering is the largest most spectacular Highland Games in the world and takes place from Thursday 26 August until Saturday 28 August at Dunoon Stadium.

The day is being produced in association with our friends at Dunoon Community Radio.

Go to the Cowal Gathering website for details of what’s on and tickets. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Jul 25, 2010

Celtic Music Radio offered six lucky listeners the chance to experience one of Glasgow’s most spectacular festivals, Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival which takes place from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 August 2010.

Here are the lucky entrants that correctly stated that Piping Live! is in it’s 7th year:

Ronnie Coates, Reichertsheim, Germany; John Daly, Houston, Renfrewshire; Chris Grace, Comrie, Perthshire; Lucy Macrae, Glasgow; Andrew Huggan, Eileen McGee, Glasgow.

Winners will receive a pair of tickets to one of six evening concerts including the headline concert by Scotland’s premier traditional band Capercaillie on Friday 13 August.

Piping Live! is one of the hottest traditional music tickets in the world, attracting over 30,000 traditional music fans and showcasing hundreds of musicians across almost 200 events.  For more information on Piping Live! and for details of the full programme log onto www.pipinglive.co.uk.

Jul 17, 2010

Hear Cara Dillon recorded LIVE at the Orkney Folk Festival, exclusively for Celtic Music Radio on Sunday from 3pm. Following Cara are Lau, winners of “Best Group” three years running at the BBC Radio Two Folk Awards.

Cara Dillon was born in 1975 in Dungiven in County Derry, Northern Ireland. She grew up in a close musical family in an area steeped in Irish traditional music. She demonstrated a striking vocal ability from an early age winning the All Ireland Singing Trophy when only 14. Whilst she was still a teenager she went on to sing with Oige, De Dannan and from there, joined the highly lauded folk supergroup Equation in 1995.

Cara Dillon (2001) was met with astonishing critical and popular acclaim. The combination of Cara’s expressive vocals and Sam Lakeman’s lyrical piano work squeezed new life into ancient material which was artfully supported by the understated arrangements and seductive production.

Cara’s current album, Hill of Theives, is  a previous Album of the Week.

Mojo magazine said of Cara “What may well be the world’s most beautiful voice…” We at Celtic Music Radio can’t argue with that!

Jul 12, 2010

The All Britain Fleadh came to Glasgow on the weekend of 26th and 27th of July.

The venue was Jordanhill College and Celtic Music Radio was there and broadcast interviews and sets from some of the winners. These performances have now been up loaded to our Listen Again Pages and can be viewed by clicking the following link:

Listen Again to the All Britain Fleadh on Celtic Music Radio

Jul 7, 2010

Welcome along to our brand new website!

Our web boffins have been locked in a dark room for a few weeks now, with food passed through the bottom of the door! We did allow them a coffee machine in the room, though.

We hope you like the results and welcome your feedback, of course. Please email your comments (positive criticism is also welcome!) to studio@celticmusicradio.net

All the latest stuff going on is handily shown in the new display at the top of the “home” page.

The menu right at the top beside our logo will take you though all the pages on the site.

The menu directly below the station log will take you through NEW and exciting blogs. In time, all the presenters will have a blog page – stay tuned and watch this space, etc!

Oh, and just incase you’re worried about the boffins - we have let them out now and supplied them with shades until their eyes adjust back to sunlight!

As we started, welcome along and we hope you enjoy our new website!