CELTIC AND BLYOND CELTIC CONNECTIONS
Various venues, Glasgow, Wed 17 Jan—Sun 4 Feb
‘lt’s been a nightmare - but enlightening.’ says musician, producer, radio presenter and now CC’s Artistic Director, Donald Shaw. ‘Finding out how the festival is controlled, trying to organise the simultaneous gigs so that you don’t split the same audience. But it’s been a buzz talking to the musicians.’ He smiles, ‘Although I did get my knuckles rapped by their agents. Well you know how it is, you’re chatting away to the States and swapping stories and saying do you fancy coming over and playing this great festival, and they’re going yes great - but that’s not quite the way that it should be done!’
Shaw is, however, genuinely excited about the upcoming festival, and points up some of its innovations. ‘Obviously there are the big-scale gigs like the opening concert Hands Across the Water, which has a huge line up including Altan, Solas, Flook, Beth Nielson Chapman and more, linking Nashville with Celtic artists to help kids, the tsunami victims, in Indonesia. Then there’s John Martyn doing his Solid Air album. There are some slightly unusual concerts with a political edge, like Richie Havens, the Women’s Night with Odetta or Bruce Cockburn. Another new thing is a series of Tribute Concerts — for instance to Matt McGinn or Hamish Henderson. And then there’s just great musicians from the sort of left field, like Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and the Duhks.’
Not surprisingly, as keyboard player and accordionist in Capercaillie, Shaw is delighted that it’s all signed off, the programme published and tickets on sale. ‘lt’s the longest time I’ve spent away from playing music,’ he marvels. ‘Three months in an office. I was starting to wonder . . . who am I?‘ (Norman Chalmers)
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