FIONA MACKENZIE finds her senses seduced by the haunting Celtic music of Ireland’s Anúna.

KENNY MATHIESON catches the final New Voices commission at this year’s Celtic Connections festival.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. IN The Holy Girl (La Nina Santa), the anguish of adolescence is further complicated by the burden of a strict religious upbringing. The second feature from Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel offers an intriguing portrait of a teenage girl’s passage into adulthood.    Oppressive, ambiguous and demanding, it has the feel […]

KENNY MATHIESON hears multi-instrumentalist Anna Massie take the least adventurous option in the second of this year’s New Voices commissions at Celtic Connections.

CATRIONA BURNS struggles to make sense of her first exposure to ballet.

The Piping Centre, Glasgow, 23 January 2005

GEORGE MACKAY sees a sensational piping performance triumph from another strong field in the BBC Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2005.

FIONA MACKENZIE finds Karen Matheson practising the art of reinventing herself.

HELEN SLATER casts a seasoned eye over Ashley Page’s radical transformation of the traditional Nutcracker tale.

KENNY MATHIESON finds Ireland’s MÍCHEÁL Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN in characteristically creative form ahead of a forthcoming Highlands and Islands tour.