News Inverclyde
The 2026 Danny Kyle Open Stage (DKOS) Showcase is taking place this evening with a sparkling line-up of talent from last year’s sessions. The curtain goes up at 5 pm in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall’s Exhibition Hall for a two-hour musical extravaganza hosted by DKOS producer and presenter, Liz Clark, who is looking forward […]
The station’s extensive schedule of live broadcasts at the heart of Celtic Connections in Glasgow gets under way at 11 am today. It’s the 20th year running that we have been involved at the world-famous festival. From our base in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall, we will have live sessions, interviews and news updates, and […]
CELTIC MUSIC RADIO will be at the heart of Celtic Connections for the 20th year in a row. The world-famous festival in Glasgow gets under way this week (Thursday, January 16) and the station’s live coverage is extensive and comprehensive. It will offer eight hours of outside broadcasts from the city’s Royal Concert […]
Presenter: Gordon Hotchkiss The most comprehensive study of the songs of Robert Burns ever broadcast ends on Celtic Music Radio this evening, the final day of 2025. The carefully crafted marathon series, Rantin’ Rovin’ Robyn, presented by Gordon Hotchkiss, has run for a period of 34 weeks, starting on May 14. It’s reckoned to be […]
Alex Jenkins, chairman of Celtic Music Radio, has delivered his heartfelt appreciation for all those who support Celtic Music Radio in a special New Year’s message. “As we approach the end of the year, I would like to take this opportunity to offer my sincere thanks to everyone who has supported Celtic Music Radio […]
The 2025 Celtic Music Radio Album of the Year winner is DARIA KULESH and her wonderful release, MotherLand. When our listeners’ poll was launched, Daria wrote on social media: “Winning would be unexpected; it would also be a Christmas miracle and a huge boost to my independent music career.” Congratulations to Daria and to […]
Who has won the most votes in the station’s Album of the Year poll? The answer will be revealed in our four-hour Album of the Year Show that starts at midday today. Hope you can listen in.
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 […]
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 […]
