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WHAT’S HAPPENING News Edited by Sarah Coxson
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FESTIVALS & EVENTS
Celtic Connections 2012, once again under the artistic directorship of Donald Shaw, runs from 19th January – 5th February and comprises around three hundred concerts, ceilidhs, talks, workshops, free events and late night sessions taking place over eighteen days in twenty venues across Glasgow, mainly located at the Royal Concert Hall. Just the tip of the line-up iceberg, some of the acts appearing include: Béla Fleck & the original Flecktones, The Aaron Neville Band, Jack Bruce (Cream) with Lau, Orchestra Baobab, aWoody Guthrie Centennial with Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, plus Moussu T, Pura Fé, Omar Sosa, Emir Kusturica & The No
Karine Polwart: Celtic Connections
Smoking Orchestra, Vieux Farka Touré, Ana Moura, Faiz Ali Faiz, Sol i Serena, Shooglenifty, Session A9, Blazin’ Fiddles, Treacherous Orchestra, a new collaboration between Manchester’s Michael McGoldrick and Mali’s Fatoumata Diawara; Salsa Celtica, Dónal Lunny, Cherish The Ladies, Matt Molloy Trio, Breabach, The Wrigley Sisters, Ailie Robertson’s Traditional Spirits, Rua MacMillan, Sultans Of String, Quebe Sisters, Lau joining forces with the Northern Sinfonia for the first Scottish performance of orchestral work, Strange Attractors; Sheena Wellington, Elspeth Cowie, Aileen Carr, Gordeanna
McCulloch and Barbara Dymnock, Ian McCalman, Corrina Hewat, Alyth McCormack & Kathleen MacInnes; a tribute to the late lamented Ray Fisher with a line- up including Archie Fisher, Cilla Fisher, Martin Carthy, Sheila Stewart, Emily Smith, Siobhan Miller and Fiona Hunter; Kathryn Tickell, Steve Tilston, The Unthanks, Tarras, KAN, Transatlantic Sessions 2012 line-up with Darrell Scott, Eddi Reader, Karen Matheson, Ruth Moody, Declan O’Rourke, Danny Thompson, John Doyle, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker, Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas, Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns, The Wiyos, World Turned Upside Down bringing together Justin Currie, The Karine Polwart Trio, Palestine’s Kamilya Jubran, Pura Fé & John Trudell and Chris Wood; a second musical gathering in memory of singer, songwriter, socialist and revolutionary Alistair Hulett (1951-2010), featuring Dave Swarbrick, Roy Bailey, Karine Polwart, Alasdair Roberts and Ian Bruce; Chris Stout & Catriona McKay, Le Vent Du Nord, Dervish, Breabach, Väsen, Thea Gilmore, Cathy Jordan, Fidil, Solo Cissokho, Naomi Bedford, N’Diale, Catalonian artists Las Migas, Jordi Molina & Perepau Jiménez, Lídia Pujol, La Carrau and Domini Màgic; Cara Dillon, Seamus Begley, Julie Feeney, Solas, Finbar Furey, Luka Bloom, Eleanor McEvoy and Dick Gaughan; Dónal Lunny with fellow Planxty members Liam O’Flynn and Andy Irvine alongside legendary fiddler Paddy Glackin; Cherish The Ladies with special guests Alison Brown, Rob Ickes and Maura O’Connell, Four Men & A Dog, Damien Dempsey, Nuala Kennedy, Matt Molloy, Andy White, Cathy Jordan, The Alan Kelly Gang, Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy, Bridget St John, Paul Kelly, Tom Russell, Martin Simpson, Dick Gaughan, June Tabor, Rab Noakes, The Cecil Sharp Project, KT Tunstall,
Abigail Washburn
Abigail Washburn, Robin Hitchcock, Howe Gelb and Eliza Carthy, Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Turtle Dhuks, Fred Morrison with Ron Block and Tim O’Brien, Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, Fraser Fifield Duo, John McSherry & Dónal O’Connar, Anna Massie & Mairearad Green, Woody Sez and a New Voices commissioning strand, sponsored by the Sunday Herald, with Duncan Lyall, Laura Beth Salter and Fiona Rutherford premiering new works. Tel: 0141 353 8000;
www.celticconnections.com
The Whittlesea Straw Bear
Festival runs from 13th – 15th January with Pete Coe, Tautas Roks, Hekety, Doughboy Zydecajun, QuickSilver and Pete White’s Suitcase Circus. Tel: 01733 208245;
www.strawbear.org.uk
The 9th edition of Sauti Za
Busara music festival takes place in Stone Town, Zanzibar from 8th – 12th February. Artists already confirmed for it include: Super Mazembe, Ally Kiba, Nneka, Tumi & The Volume, Ary Morais, Companhia Nacional de Canto e Danca, EJ von Lyrik, Tausi Women’s Taarab, Ndere Troupe, Lumumba Theatre Group, Ogoya Nengo, Chébli Msaïdie, Kozman Ti Dalon, Teba Shumba, Skuli ya Kiongoni, Kidumbaki JKU, Utamaduni JKU, Shirikisho Sanaa, Seven Survivor, Tunaweza Band, Jembe Culture Group, Leo Mkanyia, Hanitra, Swahili
Faiz Ali Faiz and party: Celtic Connections
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Ian Anderson
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