The Piping Centre, Glasgow, Saturday 29 January 2005

Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Sunday 30 January 2005

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.

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.

ROB ADAMS savours a major step forward for Caithness pianist and composer James Ross in the first of this year’s New Voices commissions at Celtic Connections.

Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 12 January 2005

THE FIRST EDITORIAL of the new year should be forward-looking, and there is plenty to be enthusiastic about in the Highlands and Islands arts scene, nowhere more so than in the field of traditional music. Celtic Connections has drawn to a close in Glasgow with another strong representation of Highland talent, from 12 year old Graham MacKenzie of Inverness taking solo roles in Donald Shaw’s Harvest, through to world famous names like Aly Bain and Flora McNeill.

Glasgow, 24-25 January 2004