Celtic Connections: Seeing Music

Celtic Connections is one of winter’s largest -- and most interesting -- festivals. It is held across nearly three weeks beginning in mid January every year in Glasgow, Scotland. The center of it is music -- there are more than three hundred official cocnerts during the festival, as well as talks, workshops, walks, and other events.

Here is a bit of what Celtic Connections looked like recently. I invite you to stay tuned for more to come...

Rhiannon Giddens, who appeared backed by a bespoke Celtic orchestra in a moving and uplifting performance

Siobhan Miller (with Meghan Henderson on fiddle) who offred a lively and gracious set of tunes new and old, original and traditional -- and it turned out, was celebrating her birthday as well

Appearing with the eclectic Blue Rose Code, Eddi Reader was as always in fine voice and having a fine time. One of the high points of the evening at City Halls happened when she got the whole hosue singing the chorus of her hit song Perfect along with her

The four women of the Gaelic a capella group Sian collabrated with Malian singer and ngoni player Basseyou Kouyate to the audience's -- and their own -- delight

Kathy Mattea and Bill Cooley offered a set at times introspective, and times sharing humor, always filled with good stories spoken, sung, and played

You may also wish to see
Scotland’s music: Emily Smith:Echoes
Ireland's music: Cara Dillon: A Thousand Hearts
Singer, poet, Scotland:Eddi Reader and Robert Burns

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