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CONCERT HALL: STRATHCLYDE SUITE 29
Nuala Kennedy and Las Migas RCS with Folkestra Breabach and Corquiéu
BREABACH
FOLKESTRA
NUALA KENNEDY
FOLK
FRIDAY 27TH JANUARY, 8PM
£13, SEATED
Premièred to rave reviews as a New Voices commission
at Celtic Connections 2007, Irish flautist and singer Nuala
Kennedy’s Astar is a musical evocation of her extensive
travels over the years, the sounds she’s absorbed and
the diverse kindred spirits she’s encountered. With a
nine-piece line-up including Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, fiddler/
trumpeter Daniel Lapp, bassist Euan Burton and pianist
Brian McAlpine, the show also features visual projections
by Edinburgh filmmaker Ruth Barrie.
The all-female, Barcelona-based Las Migas, comprising
a French and a Spanish guitarist, a German violinist
and a Catalan singer, supplemented here with bass and
percussion, create a ravishing blend of flamenco, jazz,
fado and pop.
NEW TALENT
SATURDAY 28TH JANUARY, 2PM
£11, SEATED
Ever since the Scottish Music BA was established at
Glasgow’s RSAMD – now the Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland – in 1996, it’s been a rich source of life-blood
for Celtic Connections, providing both a steady supply
of excellent new artists, and an inexhaustible one of
session-hungry aspirants. With many of the former having
returned to teach the latter, this now-annual celebration
of the UK’s first-ever folk degree promises another
cornucopia of talent.
Founded and directed by Kathryn Tickell, Folkestra is the
North of England’s leading youth folk band, based at the
Sage in Gateshead, bringing together a diverse, dynamic
array of instrumentation and material.
TRADITIONAL
SATURDAY 28TH JANUARY, 8PM
£13, SEATED
2012 looks like another strength-to-strength year
for young Highland quintet Breabach, with their hotly
anticipated third album out on March 5th. Recent recruits
Megan Henderson (fiddle/vocals/stepdance), and James
Duncan Mackenzie (pipes/flute) have forged a seamlessly
fresh creative dynamic with existing members Calum
MacCrimmon (pipes/whistles), Ewan Robertson (guitar/
vocals) and James Lindsay (double bass), while retaining
Breabach’s signature synergy between traditional and
modern, sweetness and fire.
Corquiéu are one of Asturias’s most popular and
successful contemporary folk acts, combining bagpipes,
fiddle, whistles, flute, guitar, bouzouki, percussion and
powerful lead vocals, most recently on their excellent
2010 album Suaña.
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