Short Biography
Capercaillie are a Scottish folk band founded in the 1980s by Donald Shaw and fronted by Karen Matheson. They recorded their first album, Cascade, in 1984. Their 1992 EP A Prince Among Islands was the first Scottish Gaelic-language record to reach the UK Top 40 singles chart, peaking a... Read More...
Celtic Connections ticket sales break £1 million - Sunday Herald CELTIC CONNECTIONS, Scotland's biggest winter music festival, finishes this evening with the Transatlantic Sessions in Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. As the musicians and organisers stagger into the icy February night they should find some comfort in ...
BBC Launches New channel for Scotland - Media Newsline BBC Alba – the new Gaelic television channel – today unveiled the premiere package that will celebrate the channel's launch on Friday 19 September at 9.00pm. The channel will go live with a new version of the classic Runrig song Alba, specially ...
BBC unveils new Gaelic channel - MSN UK News Documentaries about French footballer Zinedine Zidane and US tycoon Donald Trump will feature on the UK's first Gaelic television channel, programming chiefs announced today. BBC Alba unveiled a package of programmes which will run from its launch on ...