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The album is available only through Kingsway Music UK. Hogg, in her personal press release, says: Musically, this album is a collection of songs with a few instrumentals. Frank Van Essen has been working with me on this for several years not only as producer, but also co-writing and playing.
Following their win at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Valtos spent most of 2023 touring and releasing new singles in collaboration with other Scottish artists. In January 2023, they performed a sold-out show alongside Project Smok at Glasgow's Celtic Connections . [ 13 ]
Fitzgerald left that year to pursue a degree in music. Beyond These Shores, the band's third album, was released in 1993 and included guest musician Robert Fripp. The album was loosely based on the legendary voyage of St. Brendan to the Americas before Christopher Columbus; the band did not intend for it to be viewed strictly as a "concept album".
The Peatbog Faeries are a largely instrumental Celtic fusion band. Formed in 1991, they are based in Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. [1]Their music embodies many styles and influences, including folk, electronica, African pop, rock and jazz, although their main influence is traditional Celtic music.
The band has toured across the Scottish music festival circuit, playing at Rockness, Knockengorroch as well as frequent returns to Tartan Heart Festival. They have also headlined Hebridean Celtic Festival 's Islands Stage in 2011 (described as the "band of the night"), [ 3 ] 2012 and 2015 and sold out Glasgow's Oran Mor in 2012 and 2015, as ...
In a review, Johnny Whalley of Folk Radio UK notes that "while the general description 'Celtic' might be appropriate, their music, in fact, derives firmly from the Irish tradition with polkas and slides interspersed with the more generic jigs and reels". [6] He highlights the "intensity, energy and, above all, precision" of their sets. [6]
The band had an international breakthrough with their 2011 single, "An Irish Pub Song", which was taken from the 2010 album Gangs of New Holland. The song is an observational commentary on the fact that there are Irish-styled pubs in every part of the world as well as a protest against what the band saw as a commercialization and inauthentic ...
Shooglenifty are a Scottish, Edinburgh-based six-piece Celtic fusion band that tours internationally. The band blends Scottish traditional music with influences ranging from electronica to alternative rock. They contributed to Afro Celt Sound System's 1996 album Volume 1: Sound Magic. [1]