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The Celtic Music Radio search for our Album of the Year for 2025 is now under way. Once again, we have a terrific list of quality contenders – so the contest is as wide open as ever. All the releases in the poll featured on our hugely popular Album of the Week Show each […]
This marvellous collection features a quality collaboration involving Màiri Morrison, Alasdair Roberts and Canadian bassist/musical arranger Pete Johnston. They have set their musical sights on traditional songs with Scottish roots collected in Canada’s maritime provinces by folklorist Helen Creighton (1899-1989). Recorded in Nova Scotia these far-travelled Scots ballads and Gaelic lyrical songs are delivered […]
The funeral of former Celtic Music Radio presenter and board director, Ken Macdonald, will take place on Wednesday, 10th December at 2 pm at Woodside Crematorium, 46 Broomlands Road, Paisley PA1 2NP. The service will be followed by a tea in The Boardroom, The Boarding House, Main Street, Howwood PA9 1BQ. Ken’s wife, Rosee […]
In 2021, Robin Adams received the Celtic Music Radio Album of the Year award for his album “One Day”. He’s had a few albums in the meantime. However, the latest, The Beggar, is this week’s Album of The Week. Hailing from a rich Scottish musical heritage, singer-songwriter and guitarist Robin Adams, carries the torch passed on by his […]
She has been rightly described as an inquisitive Finnish songstress, a lover of jazz, improvisation and harmony singing with added storytelling skills – and Outi Karhu‘s debut album confirms this. It plays like lullabies for adults with delicate and thoughtful melodic turns, lyrical piano lines, daring rhythmic experiments and harmonies that cradle you or stir […]
All of us at Celtic Music Radio are saddened by the sudden death of former presenter and board director, Ken Macdonald, who passed away whilst visiting family in England earlier this week. His role with the station in its earliest days cannot be under-estimated. Alex Jenkins, chair of the board of directors, paid tribute, […]
When two of Scotland’s foremost acoustic guitarists get together to make music something special is bound to happen. And it has on this debut album that took the talented duo three years to complete. The eight original compositions of guitar – and occasional banjo – duets showcase perfectly their prowess and dexterity, and their ability […]
A big thank you to Skelpt for a great night last night at Van Winkles. Greg Summers was on top form as MC – full of energy and enthusiasm as always, keeping things moving with his usual good humour. Martin Stephen Jones and Stuart Arnott got the evening off to a brilliant start with some […]
Accordionist Magnus Turpie’s debut album features some of his favourite pieces, accompanied by a bunch of musician friends. Lively dance numbers, tender Gaelic waltzes and a few well known songs vie for attention on a record that offers pleasing depth and wide sonic variety. Edinburgh-based Magnus – with core band members Linda Campbell (accordion) […]
The highly popular Scots folk trio SKELPT stage a fund raiser for Celtic Music Radio in Glasgow on Wednesday, November 12. This is a one-off show, a donation for the station gig – so you are free to pay what you want to on the night. It starts at 7.30 pm at Van Winkle […]
