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Celtic Connections 2024: Transatlantic Sessions

Transatlantic Sessions

Photos and Review by Pauline Keightley This was a concert of memories, escapism and also expectations – as well as the fun banter, expert musicianship, high quality vocals and top songs. Session bands don’t come any better than this TS band. Young Irish folk singer-songwriter Joshua Burnside gave a strong performance with his thoughtful songs Louis […]

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2024, Music Reviews, Pat's Home Page Blog, Pauline Keightley

Kinnaris Quintet at Celtic Connections 2034

Aileen Reid

Photography by Pauline Keightley The Kinnaris Quintet consists of Jenn Butterworth on guitar, Aileen Reid on fiddle, Fiona MacAskill on fiddle, Laura-Beth Slater on mandolin, Laura Wilkie on fiddle. The band were joined by Celtic Connections favourite singers Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart. Great concert                   Photos […]

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Monday, February 5, 2024 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2024, Music, Music, Pauline Keightley

Ciaran Ryan at Celtic Connections 2024

ciaran ryan

Ciaran Ryan played at the Old Fruitmarket, as part of Celtic Connections 2024, when he supported Kinnaris. Ryan is a dynamic, high energy player. He is a Scottish tenor banjo player, one of the UKs top players and a founding member of folk band Dallahan. His second solo album, Occupational Hazards, was released 2024.  Photography by Pauline […]

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Kim Carnie at Celtic Connections 2023

Kim Carnie, Celtic Connections 2023. Photo Pauline Keightley

Kim Carnie, Scots singer songwriter review by Pauline Keightley Glasgow Concert Hall Charming with her soft, mesmerising voice Kim Carnie was the support artist to Duncan Chisholm and was backed by the strings and piano and Megan Henderson on vocals and violin. She performed Gaelic heritage songs from her 2022 album And So We Gather […]

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Duncan Chisholm at Celtic Connections 2023

duncan chisholm

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 February, 2023 – Review by Pauline Keightley Transported us with his engaging playing Chisholm has performed at every Celtic Connections since 1993. He also entertained us during the Covid pandemic isolation with beautiful videos of his violin playing, often shot on perfect locations on the Western Isles. His music has […]

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Opening Concert Celtic Connections 2023 review and photography Pauline Keightley

The Big Band

Opening night at Glasgow Concert Hall I see young Gaelic singer Kim Carnie walking past with her newly straightened hair. I remember meeting Dick Gaughan waiting outside here when I asked him what songs he’d be singing for the concert. He’s so honest and down-to-earth. I’m also sad for the loss of the Scots legend […]

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Friday, January 27, 2023 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog, Pauline Keightley

Celtic Connections Anniversary Concert Online

Big Band

Celtic Connections 2023 This event is available to watch from 2pm on Tuesday 24 January until 8am on Saturday 28 January. All times are GMT. Watch a one hour programme of music from the 2023 Celtic Connections 30th Anniversary Concert that took place on Thursday 19 January at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Tickets Minimum price […]

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Thursday, January 26, 2023 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2023, Pat's Home Page Blog, Pauline Keightley, Photography

Conserving Hoyland, The Hunterian

conserving hoyland

Thursday, 24 November, 2022 – 6 until 8 p.m. Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow,  82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Tickets £3 to £5 After hours event about the artist John Hoyland and conservation work on his painting John Hoyland was one of the most inventive and dynamic abstract painters of the post-war period. […]

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Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A World Made on Paper – The Hunterian

lanark hunterian

(Image: Alasdair Gray, Design for jacket cover of Lanark, 1982. The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Courtesy The Alasdair Gray Archive.)  14 June – 2 October, 2022 Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ This Hunterian exhibition is dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) […]

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Celtic Connections 2022: Transatlantic Sessions

Glasgow Scotland, Transatlantic Sessions

Review and Photographs by Pauline Keightley Celtic Connections 6 February, 2022 The Transatlantic Sessions concert celebrates the important musical connections between Scots, Irish and American traditional music. Songs capture those sometimes forgotten stories of emigration across the rough seas in small wooden sailing ships, with many hopes and dreams of a better life as the […]

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022 | Filed under: Pauline Keightley, Photography

Landscapes Without Figures, The American South West by Ian R. Mitchell

‘Landscapes without Figures’ shows a selection of 36 from the thousands of images Ian has taken of the American South West over a period of two decades, on almost yearly visits. It is an area whose natural landscape is a delight to any photographer and where the light, especially in winter when I tend to […]

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Jim’s Photo Gallery – Trip to North Berwick, A wander along Forth & Clyde Canal

A recent trip to North Berwick, a wander along teh Forth & Clyde Canal and a drive to Levengrove Park. There’s the trees and there’s the sun. They work well together.

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Monday, August 31, 2020 | Filed under: Jim's West End Photography Diary, Photography

Celtic Connections 2020: This Is Caledonian Soul review by Pauline Keightley

Glasgow, Scotland. 29th January 2020. Celtic Connections festival 2020. Blue Rose Code, aka Ross Wilson, Scottish singer songwriter, performed a concert Caledonia Soul at the Old Fruitmarket. as part of Celtic Connections 2020. Photo Pauline Keightley/ Alamy News.

Blue Rose Code: This Is Caledonian Soul at the Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections 2020 A celebration of outstanding Scottish soul music, covering such artists as the Blue Nile, Del Amitri, Gerry Rafferty, Lewis Capaldi, Travis, KT Tunstall and Annie Lennox. The concert was hosted by the inimitable and very talented Ross Wilson (aka Blue Rose […]

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Celtic Connections 2020, Pauline Keightley

Coastal Connections Festival 2020 review and photography by Pauline Keightley

karen matheson

Celtic Connections 2020 18 January, 2020 Celebrating Coastal Connections This new festival within a festival celebrating Scotland’s vast coastlines and many islands was highly successful and a sold-out event. For the price of a ticket, we were given a wristband to access musical performances of the highest calibre . The festival was held over different […]

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Saturday, January 25, 2020 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Celtic Connections 2020, Pauline Keightley

The German Revolution at the Hunterian Art Gallery

german prints hunterian

The German Revolution: Expressionist Prints 1 March – 25 August 2019 Hunterian Art Gallery Admission free A new exhibition opening at the Hunterian Art Gallery this March will offer a rare opportunity to see key works from The Hunterian’s pioneering collection of German Expressionist prints. The major exhibition, The German Revolution: Expressionist Prints, focuses on the revolutionary […]

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Gallery

Transatlantic Sessions Celtic Connections 2019 review and photography by Pauline Keightley

Transatlantic Sessions

The unique blend of Shetland fiddle and West Virginia song, dubro and Irish pipes is always a joy to hear at the Transatlantic Sessions. Warm fires appeared to chase away the winter chill at the Glasgow concert hall and this concert is always a major highlight at Celtic Connections – celebrating folk and roots music from […]

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Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Music Reviews, Pat's Home Page Blog, Pauline Keightley

New Traditions: Talisk, Vishtèn and Xabier Diaz at Celtic Connections 2019

Xabier Diaz and JNoró Adufeiras de Salitre

Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections 2019 These three bands lit up the warm fires of live music! The audience at the wonderful Old Fruitmarket venue was treated to an international line up of award-winning Celtic musicians. They did a fine job interpreting the musical traditions of Galicia, the French Canadian Acadia islands and Scots Celtic. Xabier […]

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Saturday, February 9, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Music Reviews, Pauline Keightley

Celtic Connections Grace and Danger, Tribute to John Martyn photographs and review by Pauline Keightley

Grace and Danger concert for John Martyn

Grace and Danger Review A troubled soul looking for love… What a glorious concert to celebrate one of Scotland’s best loved singer songwriters, John Martyn. He was born in London, and after his parents divorced when he was five, he returned to live in Glasgow with his father and grandmother. . The tribute concert was […]

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The German Revolution at the Hunterian Art Gallery

1 March – 25 August 2019 A new exhibition opening at the Hunterian Art Gallery this March will offer a rare opportunity to see key works from The Hunterian’s pioneering collection of German Expressionist prints. The major exhibition, The German Revolution: Expressionist Prints, focuses on the revolutionary printmaking that emerged in Germany in the years 1906-1926 and […]

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Kathleen Macinnes at Celtic Connections photos and review by Pauline Keightley

Kathleen MacInnes

Kathleen MacInnes with amiina at Celtic Connections 2019 What an impressive concert. Kathleen is one of Scotland’s foremost Gaelic singers with her broad range and husky tones. To begin her concert she sang Gaelic songs, after which she was joined by the Icelandic group amiina; the band were the string section of Icelandic avant rock […]

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Pauline Keightley

Celtic Connections, Sync of the Times review and photographs, Pauline Keightley

celtic connections

Opening Concert Celtic Connections 2019 Syne of the Times  The Celtic Connections opening night Sync of the Times was a rousing concert with over a hundred young musicians on stage in celebration of the passing of traditions between the generations. They enjoyed a memorable experience performing f Gaelic music alongside some of Scotland’s most celebrated […]

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Friday, January 25, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Pauline Keightley, Photography

A Wee Exhibition, Photography, Old Hairdressers

a wee exhibition

Thursday, 10 January, 2019, 6 p.m. Old Hairdressers ‘A wee exhibition’ is here to showcase some of our photography that we’ve been working on over the last year and to welcome us into a new one.’ The exhibition will consist of a collection of images by the Glasgow Kelvin College HND 2 students. Free entry […]

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Transatlantic Sessions Celtic Connections 2018 photographs and review by Pauline Keightley

Transtalntic Sessions

Transatlantic Sessions Celtic Connections 2018 Golden highlights of another memorable festival.  The Transatlantic Session are the jewel in the Celtic Connections crown – led by musical maestros Shetland fiddler Aly Bain and US Dubro master Jerry Douglas. We were treated to wonderful music from Phil Cunningham, Russ Barenberg, John McCusker and Michael McGoldrick, backed up […]

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Dick Gaughan Tribute Concert at Celtic Connections 2018 – photography and review Pauline Keightley

The Wilson Family

Songs of Defiance and social conscience and an evening of contrast, quality, and sincerity The Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections,January,2018 This concert was a celebration of the music that matters to Dick Gaughan. It was hosted by actress Elaine C Smith, who introduced an incomparable line up of Gaughan’s long time friends and collaborators. This included […]

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The Wilson Family

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