May 20, 2012

On Muirhead’s Music with Fergus Muirhead on Monday 21 May will have piper Finlay MacDonald previewing the Piping Live! festival 2012.

Fergus will be talking to Finlay throughout the programme and playing music from some of this year’s festival guests.

Finlay MacDonald has a worldwide reputation as an innovative piper and is a member of the piping teaching staff at The National Piping Centre in Glasgow.

Glasgow will once again become the centre of the global piping scene as it hosts Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival and The World Pipe Band Championships from 6-12 August 2012.   Around 40,000 visitors and 8,000 pipers, drummers and performers are expected to descend on the city for the world’s biggest week of traditional music.

Muirhead’s Music with Fergus Muirhead, Monday 21 May 7.00-8.00pm. Repeat Tuesday 22 May 12noon-1.00pm and at Catch Up anytime.

May 20, 2012

Mike Pennington will be the guest on the Mary K Burke Show tonight, Sunday, 20 May from 7.00pm.

Mike was born in Lancashire and began playing folk clubs in his late teens. He got a job and thought he was going to rule the world and packed in playing due to work and marriage and all the grown up stuff.

Mike moved to Scotland 12 years ago with work and lives in St Boswells in the Scottish Borders. He started playing again and in public anyway, about two years ago.

Mike’s influences includes The Dubliners and he blames them for a lot of things plus Christy Moore, Steve Earle, Pete Seeger, Woody and Arlo Guthrie.

Mike is a firm believer that as musicians we can make a difference!

Mary K Burke Show, Sunday 20 May 7.00-9.00pm

May 19, 2012

The Celtic Music Radio Album of the Week commencing Saturday 19 May is the new offering from Yvonne Lyon with a CD called ‘More Than Mine’

This album is described by Bob Harris as ‘just stunning music’ and in R2 Magazine ‘Lyon’s continually developing songwriting sets her right at the top of the tree’.

Yvonne (left) is in conversation with Bob McWilliam on the Album of the Week programme on Saturday at 12noon and 12midnight and on Monday 21 May at 6.00pm and at Catch Up.

Yvonne is pictured in the Celtic Music Radio studio with a cup of coffee as she tells the story of hearing her popular Coffee Song getting played out in Cafe Nero, Covent Garden, Soho, London.

More on Yvonne and how to get her CD here

May 19, 2012

Sandy’s Sunday Roast guest this week will be Harry Barry from the Big Elastic Band.

The Big Elastic Band was founded by Harry Barry in 1995 with Harry playing drums, sings, writes and arranging the songs.

The Big Elastic Band has released three albums and a single. The songs represent a nostalgic look at Scottish popular culture during the 1950s and 60s. Titles like, ‘Along Came Rock and Roll’, ‘Jimmy Shand’s On The Wireless’, ‘All Stood Up’ and ‘Old Hippies’ tell their own story.

The Big Elastic Band line-up is a bit unusual and includes drums, bass, two guitars, two keyboards, alto-saxophone and accordion. The music is a fusion of rock, pop, country and folk.

Sandy’s Sunday Roast, Sunday 20 May 3.00-5.00pm.