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The best roots-based music from across the world.

The best roots-based music from across the world - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent, classic tracks and new releases.

Music Planet: Celtic Connections live from Glasgow

Celtic Connections live from Glasgow

BBC Radio 3 - Music Planet, Celtic Connections live from Glasgow

Kathryn Tickell with more live music from this year's festival in Glasgow.

Kathryn Tickell is live from Glasgow with studio sessions from artists in this year’s Celtic Connections Festival.   The annual festival brings together over two thousand artists from the Celtic world and beyond in three hundred events over 18 days.  In the second of two programmes from BBC Scotland’s music studio,  a selection of Festival’s leading artists come together is special performances for Music Planet – including Ævestaden, a Norwegian-Swedish trio who blend traditional instruments with electronics in songs which bring Scandinavian folklore into the modern age.  Daimh also plays live, a band based in the Scottish Highlands, whose members come from across Scotland and also Canada, and the line-up is completed by Scottish harpist Catriona McKay.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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