News / Celtic Connections
SHETLAND has a strong presence once again at this month’s Celtic Connections music festival in Glasgow.
Sisters Jenna and Bethany Reid will reprise their 2010 debut of their epic Shetland Bus show, this time collaborating with the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland, on Saturday 19 January at the Mitchell Library.
The following night at the Glasgow Art Club Fair Isle fiddle wizard Chris Stout will join bagpipe maestro Finlay Macdonald supporting multi instrumentalist extraordinaire Tim Edey.
On 23 January Scotland’s top young trad fiddler Maggie Adamson will be at the Mitchell Theatre as a guest of former Runrig front man Donnie Munro for a one off acoustic show.
She will be back on stage at the Mitchell Library along with fellow native Gemma Donald at the Box and Fiddle night on 28 January with some big names in the accordion world, a night which proved to be a sell out last year.
Adamson said: I’m absolutely delighted to have been asked to play with Donnie Munro and Eric Cloughley at Celtic Connections. “It will be a great experience, and really looking forward to the concert.
“The Box and Fiddle concert will also be a good night, and with a Shetland influence as me and Gemma Donald are performing a duet of Willie Hunter tunes.”
Finally Stout returns on 2 February with the hugely popular Fiddlers Bid who are expected to take the Royal Concert Hall by storm, perhaps with some preview performances of tunes from their hotly anticipated new album.
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