Albums

At First Light took to the stage at the splendid City Halls in Glasgow, in support of Jaadu, as part of Celtic Connections with a set that delighted the audience from start to finish.

★★★★★ Neil Cowley Trio’s latest offering: ‘The Face of Mount Molehill’ is one of best jazz albums I’ve heard this year.

★★★★★ Never Joy is not a grower – it’s love at first listen. But can this debut album from frighteningly talented 18 year old Ed Tullet be the real thing?

Read our live review of Russian Red & Rachel Sermanni’s performance at Union Chapel and watch video highligts of the evening.

The Shoolge Project at Celtic Connections was part gig, part show, part ceilidh…a good night out is rarely as good as this!

★★★★★ On Woodditton Wives Club Alex Highton uses gentle observation to brutal reveal, but in a way that provides coherency and a sense of narrative conflict.

Our first in a series of reviews of Celtic Connections 2012: MOVE is a dynamic show that blends traditional and modern cultures.

★★★★★ Ben Calvert & The Swifts latest release ‘Festive Road’ has a charm about it that makes it a lot warmer than you expect…

★★★★★ Gretchen Peters latest album ‘Hello Cruel World’ is a collection of eleven self-written songs that offer a wry, and often intimate view of life and what we make of it.

★★★★★ Aoibhinn Crónán (The Deadly Buzz) is Mick O’Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh second album. It delights from the very first bar, a combination of tradition, skill and sheer love of the music.

★★★★★ Ani DiFranco’s ‘Which Side Are You On?’ is a phenomenal album by any standards, but all the more so because it’s a composite of everything that’s excellent about DiFranco’s music.

★★★★★ The best possible way to appreciate Northern Lights debut release ‘Dubh agus Geal’ and the wealth of creativity, imagination and study that’s gone into the creation of this masterpiece is to immerse yourself completely…