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Celtic Music Radio has a mission to be a strong cultural voice for contemporary and traditional Scottish music, arts and culture. It aims to pioneer new frontiers in communication and broadcasting by including people that do not have access to mainstream media.
The service is targeted at Glasgow's practising creative artists across a range of genres of music, media and speech.
This week's CD Album of the Week is from The Saw Doctors with their 'Further Adventures'.
The Celtic Music Radio Album of the Week commencing Saturday 14 January 2012 is from The Saw Doctors with their 'Further Adventures'. The Saw Doctors formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland and they have achieved 18 Top 30 singles in Ireland including three number ones. Their first number one, "I Useta Lover" topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990 and still holds the record for the country's all-time biggest-selling single.
Renowned for their live performances, the band has a cult following, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. On 15 February 2008, they received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards.
They describe themselves as a band who were 'Born into a repressed, catholic, conservative, small-town, agrarian, angst-ridden and showband infested society we're trying to preserve the positive elements of our background and marry them to the sounds which have culturally invaded our milieu through TV, radio, 45's, fast food restaurants, 24 hour petrol stations and electric blankets!'
They were recently on tour in Scotland and lead singer Davy Carton dropped in to Celtic Music Radio studio 2 a few hours before going on stage at the Barrowlands in Glasgow for a chat with our own Edmund.
Ciaran Dorris Sunday 15th January
Tom Fairnie is ‘castaway’ on the Ciaran Dorris Sunday Session 5 - 7 p.m. 15th January - Celtic Music Radio 1530 AM
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The Ciaran Dorris Sunday Session this Sunday, the last for the duration of Celtic Connections, will be a special celebration of the long awaited new albums by top Edinburgh songwriter Tom Fairnie who is a long time friend of the show.
Happy New Year from Celtic Music Radio
This past week is when everybody got back to the workplace after the Christmas and New Year holiday season which now seems a little far away! As this is the first Newsletter of 2012, everyone here at Celtic Music Radio would like to say to your "Happy New Year" and hope that 2012 will indeed by a happy, healthy and prosperous year for you in these financially difficult times. The New Year at Celtic Music Radio promises to be exciting with Celtic Connections 2012 just a week away and as always, we will be based in the Exhibition Hall of The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for the 18 days of Europe's biggest winter music festival covering events, interviews and features with performers and the daily Danny Kyle Open Stage every night at 5.00pm. Throughout 2012, Celtic Music Radio will be producing and presenting engaging programme content including many outside broadcasts from events with recordings of concerts and sessions by singers, bands and performers of all kinds from the music festival across Scotland and further afield.
Thanks for your support in 2011 and look forward to the same in the coming 2012.
Live broadcasts from Celtic Connections 2012
Celtic Music Radio will be live at the launch of Celtic Connections 2012 festival on Thursday afternoon 19 January within the Exhibition Hall of The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Celtic Connections 2012 launches in spectacular style on Thursday 19 January at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall with a performance from Bela Fleck and the reunited original Flecktones.
Scotland's premier roots music festival takes centre stage at Glasgow's Concert Halls and other venues in the city until Sunday 5 February 2012 as over 2,100 musicians from around the globe get set to perform in over 300 events at 20 venues across Glasgow and there is 1 radio station - Celtic Music Radio.
Celtic Music Radio will once again be based in the Exhibition Hall of The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and will include live broadcasts of the Danny Kyle
Open Stage every night at 5.00pm.
Celtic Music Radio live broadcasts from Celtic Connections 2012 are in association with Glasgow: Scotland with Style. For great hotel deals, restaurant offers and comprehensive what's on listings visit seeglasgow.com or download your free Glasgow App at iTunes or the Android Marketplace.
Listen for details of other features on Celtic Connections from Celtic Music Radio in the weeks ahead of the opening on Thursday 19 January - we'll be there!
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