This week's special features and guests include: Saturday from 12.00: Ross Macfadyen with The Saturday Sequence. Between 1.00 and 2.00pm the Events Guide takes you through the essential live acts to see this coming week across the full Celtic music spectrum. The Demo of the Week this week features from John Cunningham. John was a co-founder of Houston Folk Club, Renfrewshire many years ago. His music is mainly acoustic and solo. Link: http://www.myspace.com/cunninghamjohn The Album of the Week for the coming week will be Steve O'Connor's 'Roll The Dice'. Between 3-4pm, Ross speaks to Liverpool based Steve O'Connor about songwriting, the album and his success with track "Hail Caledonia". More about Steve O'Connor at http://www.aardvarkrecords.co.uk/steve_oconnor.htm Saturday at 6: No Celtic Boundaries features an interview with, and music by,Phil Cunningham Sunday at 5pm, Ciaran Dorris Sunday Session – Ciaran's guests today are Karen Dietz and Richard Klein, a wonderful new songwriting partnership based in Dunbar, East Lothian. Karen is best known as a member of Tom Fairnie and the Snakes, and Richard with the band Quixote. Together they serve up sublime instrumentation and harmonies. More information to follow, as soon as I get it. Also, watch this space for details of a live broadcast from the launch of The Duplets' new album, and a rather special broadcast for St Andrews Day... 1530 kHz around Glasgow, and on http://www.celticmusicradio.net .
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