Celtic Connections
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Celtic Connections 2015: Director Donald Shaw picks 10 highlights
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-30799854
BBC Radio Scotland at Celtic Connections
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Janice Forsyth presents a special programme live from the CCA in Glasgow, celebrating the start of Celtic Connections.
Artistic Director Donald Shaw gives a preview of this year's festival, and violinist and composer Greg Lawson speaks about the previous night's opening concert "Nae Regrets" - turning the late Martyn Bennett's studio-based album Grit into an orchestral live event featuring over 80 musicians and singers.
Karine Polwart talks about her festival experiences and performs live with the Karine Polwart Trio.
Fiona Ritchie and Phil Cunningham tell Janice about Wayfaring Strangers, a collaborative concert from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Boston's Berklee College, exploring their musical traditions. The show is inspired by Fiona's book of the same name, tracing the movement of songs from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia.
There's live music from Tennessee-born singer Chastity Brown, who has been called a 21st century Nina Simone; and from Leith's finest, Dean Owens & The Whisky Hearts.
Fiddle player Sam Sweeney tells the extraordinary story he uncovered when he bought his violin - which was made by a soldier who died in Flanders during the First World War.
Irish company Fidget Feet talk about The Second Coming, an acrobatic fusion of music and dance inspired by the work of WB Yeats.
And Blue Rose Code, aka songwriter Ross Wilson, reveals the first fruits of his project to set poems from the Scottish Literary Renaissance to music.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xs6sg
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Mary Ann Kennedy live from Glasgow at one of the world's biggest winter music festivals, with special late-night performances from the CCA, the BBC's hub on Sauchiehall Street.
In tonight's line-up, leading Quebec roots musicians Vent du Nord; Indian classical violin duo Ganesh and Kumaresh; plus Manran, one of Scotland's new generation of folk bands, who infuse Gaelic song with heavyweight Highland and uilleann pipes.
Celtic Connections is held in 20 venues over 18 days with 300 events taking place throughout the whole festival, involving over two thousand musicians from 26 countries. Scots and Irish Celtic music is at the centre of the festival, but it has always embraced the music of the Celtic cultures of the USA, Canada, France and Spain, together with the closely connected cultures of Scandinavia and eastern Europe. In recent years the Festival has also connected with traditions across Africa and Asia. The concerts range from the most traditional to the most experimental, all brought together in the context of one of the world's liveliest folk cultures, with a never-ending stream of young Scottish musicians who are reinventing their own traditions for their own time.
This is the first of two live late-night sessions from Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts, each featuring some of the best acts from the Festival. It is part of BBC Music's extensive coverage of Celtic Connections, also featuring on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC2 TV in Scotland, and BBC Music Online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xrzmn
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Le Vent Du Nord, Tommy Emmanuel, the Angus Nicolson Trio and Shooglenifty join Bruce Macgregor for a very special Travelling Folk from Celtic Connections!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yjttn
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A jazz and blues special live from the CCA in Glasgow presented by Stephen Duffy. Band of Friends with Ted McKenna on drums and Gerry McAvoy on bass, Dutch guitarist and singer Marcel Scherpenzeel - and, on this occasion, Brittany's Dan Ar Braz bring explosive new life to the Celtic blues of the late Rory Gallagher, while the Grammy nominated California Feetwarmers fly the flag for trad jazz. On top of that is guitarist and songwriter Andy Fairweather Low with his bluesy band the Low Riders, plus Scottish jazzers Trio AAB.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yjtwb
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yjv52
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0505bzg
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