Tag: Celtic Connections

Celtic Connections: Come and Try the Bagpipe Session

Celtic Connections: Come and Try the Bagpipe Session

  Visit The National Piping Centre and be welcomed by tunes by a first class bagpiper followed by a guided tour of the Museum of Piping and the chance to try out the pipes for yourself. Sessions Saturday 20th January 12pm Friday 26th January 12pm  Friday 26th January 2pm Saturday […]

Celtic Connections: Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening and Falasgair

Celtic Connections: Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening and Falasgair

•Falasgair Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “In this exciting performance at the Drygate Brewery, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people over a period of almost 2,000 years. Named […]

Celtic Connections: Cassani / Campbell with Fraser Fifield Trio

Celtic Connections: Cassani / Campbell with Fraser Fifield Trio

•Fraser Fifield at Piping Live! 2021. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “Cassani / Campbell are Italian double bassist and songwriter, Roberto Cassani, and New York-based saxophonist and composer Fraser Campbell. Their debut album arose from outdoor lockdown […]

Celtic Connections: Skipinnish – 25 Year Voyage

Celtic Connections: Skipinnish – 25 Year Voyage

Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert:”Created by Angus MacPhail and Andrew Stevenson in 1999, Skipinnish is at the very top of Scotland’s vibrant Celtic music scene, and the band is riding an ever-growing wave of popularity.  As a traditional […]

Celtic Connections: Brìghde Chaimbeul, Maxwell Quartet & Linda Buckley

Celtic Connections: Brìghde Chaimbeul, Maxwell Quartet & Linda Buckley

•Brìghde Chaimbeul playing at Piping Live! 2019. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert:  “Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of experimental Celtic music and of the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-powered set of bagpipes with a […]

Celtic Connections: Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band & National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland

Celtic Connections: Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band & National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland

•Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band celebrate their Grade 1 Worlds win in 2023. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia are the reigning RSPBA World Pipe Band […]

Celtic Connections: BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Final 2024

Celtic Connections: BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Final 2024

The final of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year competition brings 6 of the country’s rising stars to the stage as they battle for this career-defining accolade. This year’s finalists are: John Dew – Bagpipes (Perthshire) Calum McIlroy – Guitar, Mandolin & Voice (Aberdeenshire) Ruairidh Iain […]

Celtic Connections: John Mulhearn ‘The Pipe Factory’ with Mike Vass & Mairearad Green

Celtic Connections: John Mulhearn ‘The Pipe Factory’ with Mike Vass & Mairearad Green

Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “John Mulhearn is one of Highland piping’s most singular voices, equally at home in the most traditional or experimental of contexts. His 2020 album, The Pipe Factory, released at the height […]

Celtic Connections: Carlos Núñez & special guests – Celtic Sea and Hannah Rarity

Celtic Connections: Carlos Núñez & special guests – Celtic Sea and Hannah Rarity

•Carlos Núñez playing at Celtic Connections 2013. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “Carlos Nuñez is the poster boy of Galician music, but it’s a title he has earned by both talent and hard work. With […]

Celtic Connections: Leonard Barry & Guests and Tarran

Celtic Connections: Leonard Barry & Guests and Tarran

•Leonard Barry playing at Piping Live! 2022. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “Uilleann piper Leonard Barry launches Littoral, his beautiful third solo album, ten years after the acclaimed New Road. The title reflects both Leonard’s youth in the […]