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CONCERT HALL: MAIN AUDITORIUM 9
Le Vent du Nord 10th Anniversary
with Väsen, Breabach & Dervish
Bring It All Home – Gerry Rafferty Remembered
GERRY RAFFERTY
LE VENT DU NORD
EXCLUSIVE
SATURDAY 21ST JANUARY, 7.30PM
£18-£23, SEATED
The irrepressible, irresistible Québécois quartet Le Vent du Nord kick off their 10th
anniversary year with a mutually open-armed welcome back to Glasgow. There isn’t
a stage in the world big enough to hold all the friends that singers and multiinstrumentalists
Nicolas Boulerice, Simon Beaudry, Olivier Demers and Réjean Brunet
have made at Celtic Connections over the years: the Concert Hall’s will be crowded
enough as it is with those they’ve invited to co-host the party.
World-renowned Swedish trio Väsen, brilliant young Scottish five-piece Breabach and
traditional Irish powerhouse Dervish will join them in turn, performing a mix of both
bands’ material, with a massive all-hands finale surely on the cards. Le Vent du Nord’s
own line-up of hurdy-gurdy, fiddle, accordion, guitar and foot percussion will also be
complemented by a string section for some of the lush orchestral arrangements featured
on their latest album Symphonique.
SPONSORED BY
EXCLUSIVE
SUNDAY 22ND JANUARY, 7.30PM
£25-£28, SEATED
SPONSORED BY SCOTTISHPOWER
One year on from Gerry Rafferty’s much-mourned passing, his daughter Martha and
his long-term friend Rab Noakes curate a lavish commemorative gathering of the
Paisley-born singer-songwriter’s friends, family, bandmates, collaborators and admirers,
performing their pick of classics and lesser-known jewels from his 40-year career;
from the Humblebums through Stealers Wheel, City to City and Baker Street to his later
solo releases. Artists include The Proclaimers (Rafferty having co-produced their 1987
breakthrough hit Letter from America); flying in specially from Toronto, Ron Sexsmith;
Barbara Dickson (who sang backing vocals on City to City and Night Owl, later duetting
with Rafferty on her Dylan album); fellow 70s hitmaker Maria Muldaur; ex-Cream singer
and bassist – and fellow Scottish small-town-boy-made-big – Jack Bruce; Burns Unit/ex-
Delgados songstress Emma Pollock and soulful Irish balladeer James Vincent McMorrow.
Three of Rafferty’s regular sidemen, guitarist Hugh Burns, saxophonist Mel Collins
and multi-instrumentalist Graham Preskett, will feature with the evening’s house band,
Glasgow’s own Roddy Hart and the Lonesome Fire.
TICKETS: 0141 353 8000