Celtic Connections Program for Friday January 20

01/19/2006 08:29PM

Contributed by: WMC_News_Dept.

Glasgow, Scotland - A top Breton pipe band, Scottish and Irish collaborations, a celebration of the Gaelic language and more new talent will be present Friday, January 20th, at Celtic Connections.

Program:

Friday 20 January

11.00am Schools Concert with the Peatbog Faeries and special guests
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: Main Auditorium
2 Sauchiehall Street, G2
Tickets free on application from the Box Office

01.00pm Iain Anderson in conversation
The Piping Centre
30-34 McPhater Street, G4
£1 - tickets available from the Box Office

Daily talk with BBC Radio Scotland presenter Iain Anderson featuring discussion with interesting local and national figures and musical interludes from festival performers. Today’s talk brings together the Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival Catherine Lockerbie, Cecil Chea from the American Consulate and Glasgow-based auctioneer Anita Manning.

02.30pm Celtic Music Radio Live
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: Exhibition Hall
2 Sauchiehall Street, G2
Free

05.00pm Danny Kyle’s Open Stage with Gibb Todd
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: Exhibition Hall
2 Sauchiehall Street, G2
Free

Hosted by Danny Kyle’s good friends Gibb Todd and Liz Clark, the Open Stage is a chance to see new musical talent as they try to win a coveted support slot at next year’s festival – and all absolutely free!

06.00pm Festival Folk with Catherine Ann McPhee
The Piping Centre, £1
30-34 McPhater Street, G4

Festival personalities talk informally about their life and career in music, followed by the chance to ask any burning questions.

07.30pm Bagad Kemper meet The Scots
With special guests Fred Morrison, Tony McManus, Phil Cunningham, Donald Shaw, and Karen Matheson with support from Tachem
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: Main Auditorium
2 Sauchiehall Street, G2
£14.50, £12.50 - tickets available from the Box Office
on stage: Tachem (07.30-08.20pm) Bagad Kemper (08.40-10.10)

This new concert performance includes Bagad Kemper’s most recent repertoire but with additional sounds and atmospheres. The bagpipes, bombardes and drums are joined by sounds of the accordion, the bass guitar, the trumpet, the saxophone and other brass instruments, giving the whole show a Latin flavor. Having last visited Celtic Connections two years ago, these festival veterans can’t wait to be back. They will be joined onstage by special guests Fred Morrison, Tony McManus, Phil Cunningham, Donald Shaw and Karen Matheson.

Support for tonight’s show will be by Tachem, a quartet made up of Annie Grace, Anna Massie, Mairead Green and Anna Murray.

07.30pm My Latest Novel with support King Creosote
The Garage
490 Sauchiehall Street, G2
£7 - tickets available from the Box Office

07.45pm Songs of Scotland, Dundee
hosted by Doris Rougvie
Universal Folk Club
Sauchiehall Lane, G2
£8.50 - tickets available from the Box Office

A new venue for 2006, the intimate Universal Folk Club brings together the great tradition bearers of Scottish Song, with each evening throughout the Festival dedicated to the unique musical characteristics of a region of Scotland. Representing Dundee for tonight’s session are Barbara Dymock, Maureen Jelks, Euan Sutherland and Sheena Wellington.

08.00pm Back of the Moon, support by Anna Massie Band & Lori Watson 3
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: Strathclyde Suite
2 Sauchiehall Street, G2
£12.50 - tickets available from the Box Office
on stage: Lori Watson 3 (08.00-08.40pm) Anna Massie Band (08.55-09.35pm) Back of the Moon (09.50-10.50pm)

08.00pm Sult
The Piping Centre
30-34 McPhater Street, G2
£10 - tickets available from the Box Office

In partnership with An Lòchran, Colmcille, the organization charged with linking the Gaelic speakers of Ireland and Scotland, is bringing SULT to Celtic Connections. SULT (Gaelic for fun, enjoyment, amusement, pleasure and satisfaction) has proved a hit amongst young Gaels in Dublin who come to enjoy the club atmosphere "as Gaeilge" (through the Gaelic language).

The event will be presented in both Scottish and Irish Gaelic. Artists include the SULT house band, performance poet Gearóid Mac Lochlainn and Cape Breton singer Mary Jane Lamond and RSAMD players. From Conamara come sean-nós singer Máiréad Ní Fhlátharta. Performing with Gearóid Mac Lochlainnwill be Jarlath Henderson from Tyrone, winner of BBC Radio 2 young musician of the year award in 2004. This is part of Glaschu nan Gàidheal (Glasgow of the Gael) which includes language classes on Saturday 21st and a singing workshop with Mary Jane Lamond on Sunday 22nd, in the City Halls, Albion Street. This concert will be preceded by a set from the John McSherry Band.

08.00pm James Ross
Tron Theatre
63 Trongate, G1
£12.50 - tickets available from the Box Office
on stage: 08.00-09.00pm / 09.20-10.00pm

A consummate pianist and composer, James Ross premiered his New Voices piece An Cuan at last year’s festival and was described by the Herald as “bright, bustling and brilliantly articulate…an original mind at work”. A graduate of the RSAMD and Irish World Music Centre of the University of Limerick where he studied under the great Mícheal Ó Súilleabháin, James now teaches at these institutions of musical excellence. His concert tonight will again feature the New Voices piece played by Chris Stout, Anna-Wendy Stevenson, Jenna Reid, Wendy Weatherby, May Halyburton, Sue McKenzie, James McKintosh and Martin O’Neill while the first half will be the launch of his new solo CD entitled James Ross.

08.00pm The Island Tapes
The Arches
253 Argyle Street, G2
£12.50 - tickets available from the Box Office
on stage: 08.00-09.30pm

Given that David Allison’s richly layered music, created by a unique live looping technique, has been likened by the Scotsman to “painting with sound”, it’s only appropriate that the Glasgow guitarists’ latest project should involve a strong visual element. Specially created for Celtic Connections, The Island Tapes features screenings of four silent documentaries from the Scottish Screen Archive, recording life on St Kilda, Skye, Orkney and Shetland in the 1920s and 30s. These form the backdrop to the premiere of a potently atmospheric live score, composed and performed by Allison in collaboration with leading classical guitarist Allan Neave, Berlin-based fingerstyle maestro Ian Melrose and the superb Gaelic singer Alyth McCormack.

With the films depicting traditional activities from peat-cutting to the famously no-holds-barred Orcadian Yuletide ritual of the Ba’ hand-ball game, the music will reflect both the timeless and the changing rhythms of island lives and landscapes. And with three top guitarists meeting from such contrasting backgrounds, the show certainly looks set to fulfil Allison’s promise of “acoustic guitar taken to the limit – in all directions.”

09.30pm Donnie Munro with special guest Gráda
Old Fruitmarket
Candleriggs, G1
£14 - tickets available from the Box Office
on stage: Gráda (09.30-10.20pm) Donnie Munro (10.40-12.00am)

10.00pm Celtic Connections Ceilidh
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: Exhibition Hall
2 Sauchiehall St, G2
£6 - tickets available from the Box Office

Get your dancing shoes on for the infamous festival ceilidh with the Scott Harvey Ceilidh Band. Scott Harvey's Ceilidh Band is a traditional Scottish Ceilidh Band based in Glasgow, Scotland. With a line up of two accordions, banjo and drums, the Scott Harvey Ceilidh band has a unique and lively sound.

10.00pm Late Night Session
Universal Folk Club
Sauchiehall Lane, G2
Free

10.30pm Festival Club with Gibb Todd
The Holiday Inn - City West
Bothwell St, G2
£7.50 - tickets available from the Box Office

The best late-night club in the city, this is the place to keep the party going after all the gigs are over.