This year’s Celtic Connections programme is full of projects bringing together writers and musicians. Jim Gilchrist speaks to some of those involved
By Jim Gilchrist
Celtic Connections, Glasgow’s roots music juggernaut that has burgeoned over three decades from a modest folk event into Europe’s largest winter music festival, this year adds a further strand to its mammoth roster of folk, jazz, world and wider roots-based music, introducing commissions combining eminent Scottish writers with leading traditional musicians.
This 33rd iteration of the festival, boasting more than 300 events across some two-dozen venues across the city, will bring together poets, authors and musicians in a recently announced multi-year partnership until 2027 between the Glasgow festival and Edinburgh International Book Festival [ . . . ]
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