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BUTESONG curator, JJ Gilmour On this week’s edition of Roots and Shoots, (Friday, August 28) Janice and Graham will be joined by JJ Gilmour, the curator of Butesong. This annual boutique songwriters’ festival is held in Rothesay on the stunning Isle of Bute with 2026’s event taking place on October 23 and 24. It […]
CELTIC MUSIC RADIO is aiming to boost listening figures through the continued expansion of DAB – Digital Audio Broadcasting – services in Scotland. South Lanarkshire is the volunteer-led station’s latest DAB target area and follows successful launches this year in North Ayrshire and West Renfrewshire. The DAB coverage to communities across much of South Lanarkshire […]
This latest collaboration between DONALD WG LINDSAY and ROO GEDDES demonstrates so effectively two top-class musicians whose approaches to Scottish traditional music are rooted in a deep understanding while being fully open to exploration. Donald WG Lindsay has long been recognised for his innovative work with the Scottish smallpipes, pushing the instrument into new […]
Not one, but two special guests from Australia will join Martin for his show this evening (August 19), starting at 9 pm. KATE B has been a singer for as long as she can remember and first picked up the guitar when she was 14. She has done everything musical short of playing in […]
On Roots and Shoots this Friday (August 21), programme hosts Janice and Graham will be joined by Robert Robertson of leading folk rock group TIDE LINES. He will be reflecting on the band’s 10 years in the business, their 10th anniversary year tour and looking forward to their biggest ever headline gig at […]
This is a wonderful throwback to one of the early incarnations of this band featuring Paul McKenna, David McNee, Sean Gray, Ewan Baird and Mike Vass. It was recorded live during their 2012 tour of Germany by Guntmar Feuerstein. For years nothing was done with it until Guntmar came across it on his computer […]
Our next Album of the Week is this distinctive album celebrating the musical legacy of Maggie MacInness’ mother, Flora MacNeil MBE, and the tradition bearers of Barra whose voices shaped generations of Gaelic song. The songs come directly from recordings made of Flora MacNeil between 1955 and 1961 by Australian-born folklorist, Dr James Kalokerinos. […]
Folk duo FUAIM are guests of Ian Oliphant on the Wednesday edition (August 5) of the Lunchtime Selection this week. Maggie Wallace and David McKay are the musicians behind Fuaim, which is the Irish and Scots Gàidhlig word for “sound.” Based in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, their stirring musical collaboration involves whistles, mandolin, vocals, guitar […]
This is a striking and imaginative work bridging centuries of musical tradition. It is inspired by a medieval manuscript associated with the monastic history of Inchcolm, an island in the Firth of Forth. Fraser Fifield has taken the fragments of Scotland’s oldest known musical manuscript written around 1340 as liturgical services for the feasts […]
On her second album Permutations Clementine Lovell offers the folk tradition treated as a living and breathing thing. The release is a striking re-imagining of traditional folk songs with a collection of old ballads taking on a new life. Working with multi-instrumentalist, Gergely Nagy, she uses electronics to blend piano, strings and accordion to […]
