February 22, 2012 – 8:22 pm
Goodtime popular jazz. This double CD contains all the recordings from 1956 to 1961, including one previously unreleased track. The band formed in 1952 and made their first recording in 1956. They were hugely popular, recording on Decca’s Scottish Beltona label, then Pye with Lonnie Donegan producing. They had a hit with “Salty Dog” in [...]
February 20, 2012 – 8:58 pm
Ronnie Ross has been working in Scottish entertainment since the 1960s and is an excellent all round entertainer. He sings, plays keyboards, accordion and guitar, while his backing musicians provide guitar, banjo, mandolin, bagpipes, drums and backing vocals. He works the hotel and club circuit in the Highlands of Scotland. Well known and much loved [...]
February 19, 2012 – 5:35 pm
An album of new compositions for mandolin, charting the emotions of a man emigrating, leaving for a new life in a new land. The pieces were written in Viladrau, Catalonia through the course of 2011 and are recorded “naked” – just John, his mandolin and a microphone. John is intending to develop this work with [...]
February 15, 2012 – 7:32 pm
Charismatic front man of the Scottish band Runrig, Canadian born Bruce’s music is based on Celtic rock inspired by the Scottish highlands. The album was recorded in Ireland, with half the songs written by Bruce, along with a few classic folk songs from Nova Scotia. “Farewell Nova Scotia” can almost be described as his home [...]
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February 13, 2012 – 7:56 pm
Recorded live at Billboard Live, Japan, in September 2011, showing off Eddi’s superb vocals and brilliant backing group. Includes favourites like Perfect and It’s Magic, finishing off with a Japanese children’s song, sung a cappella with the audience. Since the early 1980s, Eddi Reader has helped to define the landscape in which folk artists and [...]
February 11, 2012 – 3:24 pm
The music was all written by Simon over the last twenty years, reflecting his time in Donegal, Manchester, Edinburgh, Asturias and Uist. The CD was recorded over four days in May 2011 at Grogarry Lodge in South Uist. One of the tracks was recorded at a concert given during these four days. Simon Bradley (fiddle, [...]
