Album of The Week

‘One Day’, the sixth studio album from Glaswegian acoustic performer Robin Adams, most certainly has a 70s aesthetic throughout. One Day’s artwork presents a doll’s house on its cover, a more than fitting image, since the body of work itself seems to pass through chambers of romantic love, dwell in rooms of quiet reflection and […]

The Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band are delighted to announce their third album release, Road to Glenfinnan, which brings jigs, reels, sing-a-long songs and joy direct to your home at a time when we can’t get out to enjoy ceilidhs. The band is made up of stalwarts from the traditional music scene, equally at home touring the […]

Genre-busting quartet Mec Lir exploded onto the Celtic music scene in 2014 with their debut release Not An EP, launched during their first appearance at one of the world’s largest Celtic music festivals, Festival Interceltique de Lorientin Brittany. Since then they went on to release two singles in 2016, have appeared at festivals all around […]

Rachel Walker is a singer, songwriter, arranger and educator based in the heart of Lochaber in Scotland’s beautiful West Highlands. At home with both Gaelic and English, she encountered the Gaelic tradition at a young age, after her family moved from Lincolnshire in England to the small village of Kinlochewe in Wester Ross. It was […]

Join Ross Macfadyen this Saturday 6th February at 12 noon as he talks to The Coaltown Daisies. It’s been 5 years since The Coaltown Dasies released their debut album, This Old House. I couldn’t believe that Listen was only their second full length outing. Here we have a not-so-difficult second CD. There is a theme […]

The first winner of the Celtic Music Radio Album of the Year listeners’ poll is Elaine Lennon with her sublime, self-titled debut album. The album “Elaine Lennon” came out in January and was Celtic Music Radio’s first Album of the Week of 2020, a feature sponsored by Cardwell Garden Centre. The critics have loved the […]

Join Auntie Liz who will be in conversation with Jez Lowe about his new album ‘Crazy Pagan’ on Album of The Week and on Catch Up. A new album from Jez Lowe, all on his lockdown lonesome, playing all the instruments, singing all the songs… Including a homage to a sporting hero (Shaking Monty), a […]

Glasgow’s Becci Wallace is at the heart of Scotland’s songwriting community. Her first album Fragmentality (2015) gained plaudits across the country and secured multiple national and local radio plays. Her latest project Present Tense released in November, signalling a return to the fray following the birth of her two children. Becci fully admits that in […]

Listen in at 12pm on Sat 5th Dec 2020 when Auntie Liz will be in conversation with Fraser Bruce about his new album – ‘’Every Song A Story’’ Celtic Music Radio’s album of the week this week Brought up in Rutherglen Fraser Bruce was a familiar site on the Folk Scene from the late 60’s […]

URRANTA is the long-anticipated release from Gaelic singer Deirdre Graham. Comprising a series of traditional songs that have long inspired Deirdre, the album is rooted in the sounds of her native home on the Isle of Skye and its surrounding areas. Introducing Deirdre’s raw and evocative vocals, highlighted by a rich orchestrated soundscape, URRANTA is […]