Categories: festivals
Tags: Celtic Connections, YouTube
Date: 21 January 2011 14:56:47
So, it's that time of year again when Glasgow is THE place to be. The Celtic Connections Festival is here again, and as usual we have managed to get tickets for some (hopefully) cracking concerts. First up on Wednesday we headed to the Tron Theatre to see a folkie called Alasdair Roberts. We had seen him a couple of years ago as part of a gig with several other artists as part of the Mental Health Arts Festival and liked him, so we were happy to get the chance to see him headlining. If you kind of picture a geeky, lanky, beardy, untrendy maths teacher, he kind of looks like that (but less trendy), I was really expecting he'd have a rainbow guitar strap! But he's a great musician, we enjoyed the gig very much indeed. Here's a promo video of him in Ireland which gives you a good idea of what he does:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMQ7VyIhIs&feature=related[/youtube]
As usual with Celtic Connections, the support act is nearly always fantastic, I think I've only ever been to one or two gigs where I thought they were OK but nothing amazing, usually you feel like you've got your money's worth just with the support act, and then you have the headline act still to go! This gig was no exception, we really liked the support act and the audience really warmed to him, he had fantastic presence. He was the Cameroonian singer Muntu Valdo, who is well worth checking out:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F01E1eARZcw&feature=related[/youtube]