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EVERY January and into February, Glasgow’s extraordinary Celtic Connections festival offers audiences a head-spinning panoply of folk roots music from throughout Scotland and the world. This year, with Covid-19 continuing to wreak its terrible havoc, the doors of the concert halls remain closed and the festival is unable to extend its legendary warm welcome. What it is able to do, however, is provide an impressive online programme, with new concerts being released every day until February...

You cant head north, so 2,000 celtic musicians come to you 19-day Celtic Connections festival features 300 events in 30 venues Trish Lee  ); Celtic Connections 2021 goes digital - across 19 days, the festival will present over 30 online performances between Friday, January 15, and Tuesday, February 2. STEPHEN OTTNER has booked his seat for the UK’s premier celebration of celtic music IN ‘normal’ times my wife and I would be preparing for a trip to Glasgow. Why, you may well ask, would a...

Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free...

Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free...

COME January and the post-festive gloom, Glasgow, in any normal year, comes alive with Europe’s biggest winter music festival. Every year Celtic Connections welcomes music lovers in their droves to its showcase of folk and roots music from throughout Scotland and the world. However, 2021, needless to say, is not a “normal” year. With coronavirus cases on the rise, and with mass immunisation a future promise rather than a present reality, the festival’s creative producer Donald Shaw ...

Celtic Connections is going online a week today - for a 19 day festival By Louise Glen  |  Updated: 10:19, 08 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper The Celtic Connections online festival will begin one week today. Across 19 days, the festival will present over 30 online performances between Friday January 15 and Tuesday February 2 2021. St Lukes. Picture: Gaelle Beri World class concerts will be availab...

Celtic Connections festival moves online - here is how you can get your ticket An early bird festival pass has been released that gives unlimited access to the full 19 nights of entertainment for only £30. Celtic Connections is going online this year. (Image: Celtic Connections) Join thousands of others who have signed up to the weekly Scotland Now newsletter for the latest Scottish heritage and culture news.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscrib...

DUNFERMLINES very own Barbara Dickson is to feature in a new documentary airing on New Years Day (today). A new BBC ALBA documentary has exclusive interviews with some of Scotland’s most talented female music stars to discover what it’s like to be a woman in a male dominated music industry. God Save the Quine presenter Fiona MacKenzie discovers just how hard it was for their voices to be heard in what is still a very male dominated world when she interviews some of the country’s m...

HE had the poetic sensibility of Sorley MacLean. And the comic timing of Lenny Bruce. Norman Maclean was many things; comedian, novelist, poet and piper extraordinaire. But he excelled as a composer. Specifically of the pipe tune, My Land. In his self-lacerating memoir, The Leper’s Bell, Norman references my liking for My Land. He writes that I pestered him to put words to what I consider a neglected anthem. I finally infuriated him by declaring: “Scots write great tunes. Let’s leav...

A documentary has exclusive interviews with some of Scotland’s top music stars to discover what it’s like being a woman in a male-dominated industry.