Listen to our Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine, Emma Gatrill, Ian George (ft. Anna Moss), Swimming Bell, Wes Swing, Steve Gunn and David Moore, Touki, Cheri Knight, Milkweed, Great Aunt Ida, Big Search, The Hackles and Wild Roots Rising.
Featuring music from Henry Lowther Band, Jim White, Sage Alyte, numün, an epica raga-like live offering from Elkhorn & Mike Gangloff, Lake Mary, Glenn Kimpton and Micah Frank and Chet Doxas’ Larum.
For Damien O’Kane and Ron Block’s Celtic Connections set, the dividing line between band and guests was appropriately blurred at this highly anticipated banjo-fest gig at the magnificent Barony Hall.
Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación! is Bongo Joe Records’ first compilation of music from the Caribbean, specifically the Dominican Republic and it is filled with authenticity, energy and verve.
Hafdís Huld’s ‘Darkest Night’ astonishes with its ability to take on extraordinary real-life personal and family stories with such a tender sense of grace.
Hannah Rarity delivered a composed and confident excellent set before Galician musician Carlos Nuñez delivered what can only be described as an unforgettable top-class performance and jubilant extravaganza.
Demi Spriggs’ music is hard to pin down; on ‘a boy called ear’, she manages to sound traditional and modern, otherworldly and haunting, mysterious and melancholic, intriguing and exciting.
Throughout Come Swim, Emma Gatrill creates a unique musical alchemy. By turning the writing process on its head, she gains the freedom to reinvent her music and, by doing so, has established herself as one of the most inventive women in music today.
Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine’s Outliers revels in the beauty of the remote. While conceived and recorded entirely online, it feels astonishingly close. The attention to detail and clarity of sound are incredible, and their contributions are clearly defined yet entirely in accord.
LA songwriter Katie Schottland, aka Swimming Bell, is our latest Off the Shelf guest in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or elsewhere from their home and talk about them. She shares some lovely moments…her new album ‘Charlie’ is out now.
Angélique Kidjo proved to be a force of nature at Celtic Connections with a powerful stage presence throughout, gripping, insistent vocals and almost always a beat that had to be danced to.
Willi Carlisle’s Critterland, an album steeped in and driven by contradictions, its fingers grubby with the dirt of real life in all its joy and despair, confirms him as a strikingly individual voice.
