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This third album from Scottish singer/songwriter, KIRSTEN ADAMSON is a powerful and emotionally charged collection, delivered in a distinctive and compelling manner. There’s a real intimacy in these marvellous songs and they also readily yield dreamy, forthright and uplifting feelings. On Dreamviewer, Kirsten – she’s the daughter of Scottish rock legend Stuart Adamson (Big Country/Skids) […]
Celtic Music Radio picked Transform Me Then Into A Fish by English folk musician Martin Carthy as its Album of the Week back in July. Our presenter Hugh Taylor visited Martin at his home in North Yorkshire to talk about the album – his first solo release in 21 years – and his long and […]
The Lanarkshire Songwriters powerful new album, 1820 Songs of Rebellion, is a stirring musical tribute to the Radical Rising of 1820, which was Scotland’s last armed insurrection. Marking nearly three decades of songwriting and performance, the group channels the voices of working-class heroes who dared to dream of democracy. Through original compositions steeped in […]
English folk musicians, SCOLD’S BRIDLE celebrate 50 years as a duo with the release of their second album, appropriately titled, Timeless. Sue Bousfield (English concertina) and Liz Walmisley, (guitar and bouzouki) have a repertoire that ranges from ballads and music hall songs to material written specifically for them, which Liz sets to music. The two […]
Glasgow-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Niamh Maclennan is today’s Lunchtime Selection guest. Niamh will be chatting with host, Ian Oliphant about her EP, Burning For You, that is released this week ( September 12). Her music moves between expansive, atmospheric textures and heartfelt vulnerability. To celebrate its release, she playing a full-band launch show at Sneaky Pete’s […]
Award-winning duo Hannah Elizabeth and Griff Jameson have joined forces to create an acoustic folk-roots sound which encompasses both their individual musical backgrounds. Hannah’s influences are firmly planted in traditional folk-roots, whilst in contrast Griff has formed his musical reputation within folk pop/rock genres. On Way Out West, their second release, they arguably offer the best of both backgrounds […]
Celtic Music Radio is pleased to announce that the station is now available on DAB digital radio outside Scotland for the first time. Listeners in Newry in Northern Ireland can now hear the station on DAB in a trial that will run until late December. It is hoped CMR will be available on DAB in […]
The most comprehensive study of the songs of Robert Burns ever broadcast reaches its half-way mark this evening on Celtic Music Radio. The carefully crafted marathon series, Rantin’ Rovin’ Robyn, presented by Gordon Hotchkiss, is due to run for a period of 34 weeks with the final edition going out, appropriately, on December 31. […]
This is this talented duo’s second album and it’s packed full of classy Scottish fiddle and guitar music. It is a festival of creativity, full of the style and character that they are known for. duo has become known for. Eilidh’s fiddle takes the lead on the instrumentals as new compositions such as Swimmy […]
Ian Bruce and Kev Green are musical veterans who have come together from two totally different spheres. Ian is from a mostly sitting, listening folk audience and Kev from the more raucous rock and fun-filled pubs and venues of his local Kent of the eighties. Live, the duo woo their audiences using strong vocal […]
