TONIGHT!!!!! 19th January - at Celtic Cnnections

The Moonshiners and Cahoots with others are playing at
Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4HU.
0141 248 5210
8.00 pm tickets £10

Should be a great nite of Bluegrass, Country Blues and Folk Music in a fantastic venue.

Host is the wonderful Mick West
Review - The Moonshiners at The Maid of The Loch

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Tom Jones

Tom Jones will perform his latest album 'Praise & Blame' at Celtic Connections, 17th January.
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Celtic Connections Programme Announced - 19th October

13th - 30th January, 2011

Artistic Director Donald Shaw today (19th October, 2011) announced a stellar programme for Celtic Connections 2011, which will bring some of the biggest names in folk, roots, world, traditional, indie, Americana, bluegrass and jazz to Glasgow next January. The 2011 festival will run from 13th - 30th January.

Europe's premiere winter music festival, Celtic Connections celebrates its 18th birthday in 2011, with over 1,500 artists performing in approximately 300 events taking place over 18 days across 14 venues in Glasgow. Celtic Connections is programmed and promoted by Glasgow Life.

Featuring Zakir Hussain, Mavis Staples, Lau, Fiddlers' Bid, The Waterboys, Blind Boys of Alabama, Paul Brady, Grant Lee Buffalo, Richard Thompson and more

Celtic Connections 2011

13th - 30th January

300 events, 18 days, 14 venues

Programme Highlights

Celtic Connections will launch in spectacular fashion with The Pulse of the World featuring Zakir Hussain - an international collaboration which will see the legendary Indian tabla virtuoso perform with a select group of the finest traditional musicians from Scotland and Ireland.

Adaptation and transition

Amajor programming theme, as artists embrace their influences - The Waterboys celebrate the work of W. B. Yeats, whilst Justin Townes Earle, Thea Gilmore, Justin Currie and more pay tribute to Bob Dylan in the year of his 70th birthday,

Scottish Folk

The festival celebrates the vibrancy of the Scottish folk scene with performances by Lau, Treacherous Orchestra, The Unusual Suspects, Fiddlers' Bid and more...

International Acts

Internationally renowned acts from the worlds of folk, roots, indie and Americana include Paul Brady, Richard Thompson, Seth Lakeman, Raul Malo, Teddy Thompson, Jah Wobble, Ani DiFranco, Justin Currie, Crooked Still, The Walkmen, Marty Stewart, Sharon Shannon Big Band with Imelda May, Shane MacGowan and Mundy and a special BMX Bandits 25th anniversary gig.

Power of Gospel

The festival explores the power of gospel and song with performances by Mavis Staples, Blind Boys of Alabama, Bettye LaVette, Creole Choir of Cuba, and Anais Mitchell's Hadestown: A Folk Opera.

Celtic Traditions and Cultures across the globe

The festival features a strong world music strand, celebrating the connections between Celtic traditions and cultures across the globe - Yasmin Levy, Mama Rosin, Cheikh Lo, OqueStrada, Leo Blanco, Keltic Tales and Taraf de Haidouks will all appear in Glasgow in January, 2011.

High Profile and Roots Acts

Every January, Celtic Connections attracts some of the biggest names in folk, roots and traditional music to Glasgow.

Richard Thompson, Ani DiFranco, Teddy Thompson and Seth Lakeman are all on the bill for 2011, and in a Celtic Connections exclusive the iconic Glasgow group Love and Money will re-form for a one night only live reprise of their classic albums Strange Kind of Love and Dogs in the Traffic. The band split in the mid-1990s, and front-man James Grant will be joined by fellow co-founder Paul McGeechan and ex-members Gordon Wilson and Douglas MacIntyre, plus bassist Ewen Vernal, Monica Queen and Fraser Spiers.

The much-loved Californian alt.rock band Grant Lee Buffalo will re-form for three special shows in 2011 - Glasgow, London and New York. A major coup for Celtic Connections, their gig in the Old Fruitmarket will be their first UK appearance together after a nearly 12 year hiatus.

Opening for Seth Lakeman will be Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends - the biggest folk music story of 2010, they scored a £1 million record deal after 15 years of entertaining summer visitors with their shanty-based repertoire each Friday by the harbour in their Cornish home town.

Americana, Rockabilly, Country and Bluegrass

New Faces of Folk

Fostering new talent and facilitating musical creativity is a core tenet of Celtic Connections. The Danny Kyle Open Stage, sponsored by the Evening Times, and BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year Final will continue to introduce and celebrate fresh talent in 2011.

This year's New Voices commissioning strand, sponsored by the Sunday Herald, will see new works from the hotly tipped Rachel Sermanni (who also won a Danny Kyle Open Stage Award at Celtic Connections 2010), accordionist Angus Lyon and fiddler Innes Watson.

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