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Roo Geddes brings together music from five generations of his family on this solo album, which was recorded live on his great-great-grandfather’s violin. Named after the Glaswegian tenement ‘closes’ where he grew up, the album stays close to home, featuring performances alongside his mum, gran, and auntie, as well as three never-before recorded compositions […]
This fourth album from Tide Lines is a deeply personal tribute to the city that has shaped the band’s journey. Its twelve tracks capture Glasgow’s people, places and spirit through evocative storytelling and anthemic indie-folk melodies. Glasgow is very close to the band’s heart. From their first casual meet up in a West End […]
Celtic Music Radio has two tickets for JJ Gilmour’s gig at the Re-Hope Church in Paisley on Friday, June 27th. All listeners have to do to win them is answer one question – what’s the name of JJ Gilmour’s first solo album? Please send your answer to competition@celticmusicradio.net Please include your name, email address […]
The 500th edition of the award-winning Mike Ritchie On Sunday Show is broadcast live today from 4 to 6 pm. It’s a special playlist that’s on offer, packed with sparkling tracks suggested by listeners. Mike’s first Sunday broadcast was back in August 2014 and he has twice in three years topped the influential Americana UK website’s […]
This excellent two-disc collection is the solo song debut of Scottish musician and musical instrument inventor/builder, Donald WG Lindsay. The fourteen live-in-the-studio recordings, made during December last year at Watercolour Music in Ardgour in the Scottish Highlands, vividly demonstrate Donald’s musical skills. He sings, plays guitar and plays on his own “Lindsay System” Scottish […]
Scottish folk singer Campbell Gunn’s On Ashton Lane is his first release since 2012 but it is a clear testament to his strength and undoubted ability as a musician. The former political journalist-turned-government-adviser has delivered fourteen, self-composed tracks that flow with assurance, poise and elegance. Campbell, who is a recipient of a Scottish Press […]
This was the last concert of the 2025 Orkney Folk Festival for me, and, after leaving the packed-out Ferry Inn session with my ears ringing from the sound of some 40+musicians crammed into a small space, I was ready for more a gentler, more relaxed ambiance. I found it at Stromness Parish Church. The […]
This was my second multi-artist concert in Stromness Town Hall, and also a second, and most welcome, encounter with The Maes – of whom, more later. First up was an Orkney/Shetland ensemble, The Skirlies, comprising, on fiddles, sisters Bryony MacGregor and Jennifer Stevenson and Karen Shearer, with Mariann Allan on piano. They evolved out […]
The title of this quite glorious collection really does say it all. And hats off to this legendary band – international ambassadors of Irish music – for being able to select 17 songs to represent their output and enduring appeal over the decades. Dubbed The Kings Of Celtic they have made fans happy all […]
To get to this mid-afternoon gig, I had to say farewell to a great session in the sun-kissed courtyard (yes, one of those strangely Hawaiian days that turn up from time to time in Orkney) of the Ferry Inn. As it turned out, I was right to do so, a) to avoid the well-seared […]
