8th - 15th January, 2011
In song, music and dance
The life of St Kentigern – better known as St Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow, is being celebrated during the city’s second official St Mungo Festival, 8-15 January, 2011.The festival, which honoured the Fife-born monk’s work to establish and expand the city of Glasgow around the sixth century, is being celebrated in song, music and dance.
Following The Ideal Band's Scottish tour with the Don Cossack Balalaika and Russian tour this autumn, Glasgow City Council invited them to organise concerts and perform at this new festival celebrating the city's many indigenous and diverse cultures.
A wealth of Glasgow musicians from the city's Celtic and World musical cultures will participate.
Saturday 8th January, 2011
The Ideal Band
“A simply beautiful sound, each song an absolute gem" - The
Herald Adam McNaughtan - Singer/songwriter/performer and legend, one of Glasgow’s best loved and famous characters.
Maggie MacInnes - Glasgow Gael, and best Gaelic Singer of the Year BBC Scots Trad Music Awards 2004.
Akaya West African Drummers & Neilston Pipe Band, Four Provinces Irish Ceili Band, Glasgow African Highlife Band
St Andrews in the Square G1 5PP
7pm for 7.30pm
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St Mungo's Festival
Friday14th January
Community evening concert/ceilidh + an informal music session hosted by Partick Folk Club
Featuring some of Glasgow’s finest traditional musicians, including “The Ideal Band” and many others. Bring your instruments.
St Peters Hall Chancellor St Partick G11
7.30pm for 8pm
£5 at the door
Saturday, 15th January, 2011
Ireland's top traditional musicians join Glasgow's very best Irish and Scottish musicians to pay tribute the late Jimmy McHugh.
One of the biggest annual concerts held in the city at Woodside Halls
8pm
Tickets £10
Woodside Halls Glenfarg St G20
0141 552 4267 or 07855 2920
www.jimmymchugh.com
Celtic Music Radio will broadcast the entire event worldwide.
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Exhibitions and Events including Saturday 8th January 2011, Vita St Kentigern – The Tree and the Bell, Celebrating the life of St Mungo in Words and Song. The celebration will last for approximately 40 minutes and will be held in the public foyer of the Mitchell library. A display of Jocelyn’s Book, the medieval manuscript written about St Mungo’s life, will show the Story of the Tree and the Bell.
12.00 -1.00pm, Mitchell Library, Granville Street.
Free