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NOW in its 17th year, Celtic Connections features 1500 artists performing in 300 venues over 18 days. Throughout January, the Sunday Herald - along with its sister titles The Herald and Evening Times, and website www. heraldscotland. com - will bring you interviews with the big names, a host of on-the-spot reviews and an exclusive CD featuring several of the performers. Here are a few highlights guaranteed to sell out.
Opening Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall January 14, 7.30pm A unique, 50-strong, folk-meets-classical supergroup, the True North Orchestra was formed earlier this year to play Jim Sutherland's composition Aisling's Children as part of the Homecoming celebrations.
Excerpts from that piece will be repeated here alongside new works inspired by strathspeys and Gaelic psalm singing. The gig also features tasters of acts to come later in the festival.
Nell Bryden Classic Grand January 15, 7.30pm "The unruly child of Kenny Rogers and Nanci Griffith" and "a more credible Joss Stone belting out Lena Martell's One Day At A Time" was how two tracks on Nell Bryden's recent album, What Does It Take? , were described in this very newspaper. Soul-powered Americana covers the bulk of her repertoire, with smatterings of blues, jazz and old-fashioned Nashville...