Celtic Connections - from the comfort of your own home!
I must be one of the luckiest blokes in the world, in that I not only have a job I really enjoy (i.e. playing folk music on the radio to people who actually want to listen!) but that doing that job, I often get to go to interesting places such as Washington DC, San Diego, Sidmouth and Glasgow.
I'll be in
I do pace myself these days and am no longer the silly chap that stayed up all night playing the banjo in the Ailsa bar with several other barmpots. ÂIf I'm still up at 3 a.m. nowadays the gorilla comes and takes me to my room. (It's the gorilla that comes into your room and throws all your clothes all over the place after you've piled them up all neat, he also doesn't flush the toilet, leaves a half eaten pizza on the dressing table and leaves the radio switched on to Radio 4 so it suddenly wakes you up at 6 a.m. with an extra loud version of the farming news.)
This yearÌýthe billÌýlooks quite amazing. You'll find a superb set of videosÌýon the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Celtic Connections websiteÌýof great performances by people like ENSA, Cara Dillon, Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko and loads of other great acts.
Even if you can't be there, thanks to the wonders of the internet and public service broadcasting you can be there in spirit, and furthermore people from all over the world will be joining you to log on and watch. What an amazing thought - in a way we truly do live in a global village!
Comment number 1.
At 23rd Jan 2009, Darren Stephens wrote:D'you know, I miss the comedy (and still have several of you albums form the 70's like Komic Kutz) but you really are lucky to be doing the thing you love.
And long may it continue.
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