Europe’s premier winter music festival, Celtic Connections has returned to Glasgow for 2023, with performances from some of Scotland and the world’s brightest emerging musical talent alongside stalwarts of the scene and returning favourites.
Launching on Thursday, January 19, the popular festival will run until Sunday, February 5, and see thousands of musicians from countries across the world, including the USA, Ireland, Mali and Morocco, perform across the city as it celebrates 30 years of showcasing and pushing the boundaries of traditional folk, roots, Americana, jazz, soul and world music.
The organisers revealed that since the festival’s inception in 1994, the number of events staged at Celtic Connections has quadrupled and the number of venues has grown 25-fold.
