Jan 28, 2012

Not only is Gordon Hotchkiss a top flight radio presenter, but he also takes a good photo!

You can view a selection of Gordon’s “snaps” via our flickr pages. Just Click here!

Jan 3, 2012

Celtic Connections 2012 is now underway.

Celtic Music Radio is broadcasting live from the Exhibition Hall of The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall weekends from 4.00-7.00pm and weekdays from 11.00am until 7.00pm with live music, guests and festival news.

Join us on 1530AM around Glasgow and on DAB digital radio on the ‘Pop Up’ channel and online plus 97.4 FM via Dunoon CR.

Celtic Connections 2012 launched in spectacular style on Thursday 19 January at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall with a performance from Béla Fleck and the reunited original Flecktones.

Scotland’s premier roots music festival takes centre stage at Glasgow’s Concert Halls and other venues in the city until Sunday 5 February 2012 as over 2,100 musicians from around the globe get set to perform in over 300 events.

Celtic Music Radio will once again be based in the Exhibition Hall of The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and will include live broadcasts of the Danny Kyle Open Stage every night at 5.00pm.

Celtic Music Radio live broadcasts from Celtic Connections 2012 are in association with Glasgow: Scotland with style. For great hotel deals, restaurant offers and comprehensive what’s on listings visit seeglasgow.com or download your free Glasgow App at iTunes or the Android Marketplace.

Listen for details of other features on Celtic Connections from Celtic Music Radio - we’ll be there!

Jan 2, 2012

Stramash played at the CLIC Sargent Strictly Come Scottish, the charity ball held on Saturday 29 October 2011 which was a great success raising over £15,000 for children and young people with cancer.

The Oran Mor venue at the top of Byres Road in the heart of Glasgow’s West End played host to bands, comedians, an excellent auction and many happy guests. The event was hosted by Scottish comedian and actress Karen Dunbar who did a sterling job of entertaining guests throughout the night.

Celtic Music Radio was there to record the event and you can get some of the atmosphere of the night at 7.00pm on New Year Holiday Monday.

More information on CLIC Sargent on their website here.

Dec 30, 2011

It’s Hogmanay so it must be A Night in Scotland with the one and only The Alexander Brothers!

Danny Matheson introduces a special night recorded at Paisley Town Hall on 11 November 2011 which also includes Heedrum Hodrum and The Graham Laurie Paisley Accordion Orchestra.

Tom and Jack – The Alexander Brothers - are firmly established as Scotland’s leading international entertainers. They have always been in demand for theatre productions and television programmes and still regularly tour around the world with more than 50 years of entertaining the public.

A Night in Scotland with The Alexander Brothers, Hogmanay, Saturday 31 December 2011 at 8.00-10.00pm.

Dec 23, 2011

Celtic Music Radio will be presenting many recordings from outside broadcasts and special concert recordings over the Christmas Holiday Season.

On Christmas Day we present County Fermanagh singer Cathal McConnell who is a world-renowned musician and singer with “The Boys of the Lough” a group of which he is a founder member over 45 years ago.  Produced and presented by Ross Macfadyen.

Christmas Day Concert featuring Cathal McConnell, 7.00-10.00pm.

Dec 18, 2011

Recorded earlier this year for Celtic Music Radio by John Weatherby of Sound Sense PA the stunning and welcome return of an ex pat adopted Scot Marilyn Middleton Pollock accompanied by Kate Kramer on fiddle.

Marilyn Middleton was born in Chicago, where she began singing professionally at the age of 15.  Her first work was in folk music but she soon broadened her range to include Rock & Roll and then jazz & Blues. Over the next 20 years her music took her right across the USA and then to Europe.

Her first UK album Nobody Knows You in 1988 won the Music Retailers Association Award for Excellence. Eleven albums later, Marilyn’s path has criss-crossed Europe with appearances in concert halls, theatres, festivals and clubs in Germany, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Switzerland, France, Eire as well as the U.K.

Marilyn’s starring role in the record breaking theatre show A New Orleans Mardi Gras and her successful one woman shows  Those Women of The Vaudeville Blues and Jazz Me Blues have won massive plaudits from the press, audiences and music promoters alike.

In 1994, BBC Radio 2 asked her to record a series of programmes Vaudeville, Red Hot and Blue with her jazz band, The Chicago Hoods.  The series was acclaimed by critics (”Breathtaking” – The Observer’).

And the response of radio listeners was so enthusiastic that a second series and then a third, were  commissioned for broadcast in 1996 and  1997.

Following on from the success of the radio series, Marilyn  toured the UK with ”The Chicago Hoods” in two original theatre shows – The All-American Music Show and Red Hot and Blue.

Marilyn’s folk music repertoire is as varied as the rest of her career with a natural emphasis on songs of North American origin in addition to material written  specially for her by notable British and European composers.  She combines a magnetic stage presence and a powerful but sensitive voice with a warmth and feeling seldom equalled

Festival Fling Extra with Liz Clark, Sunday 18 December 2.00-3.00pm.