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Salsa Celtica's synthesis of Scottish and Irish traditional music with all the Latin American elements of salsa has taken them and their music all over the world. In the last ten years the group has been a hit equally at major celtic, jazz, world music and salsa festivals. Their albums have topped the New York and L.A. salsa charts and European world music charts, the band has been nominated for folk music awards and appeared as themselves in a feature film.
Their lineup combines some of Scotland and Ireland's most exciting traditional musicians together with a stellar group of world, jazz and salsa musicians from the U.K. and Latin America. Salsa Celtica is a stunning combination of virtuosity and energy, making them one of the most exciting groups on the world music circuit today. Started in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1995 Salsa Celtica has gone on to invent their own genre and then take it around the world and back again to critical and public acclaim.
The group has released four studio albums, most recently "El Camino" also to critical and public acclaim. 2010 will see the release of a live Salsa Celtica concert DVD and CD album, see you along the way!
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19.06.09
Live Radio Scotland recording
Hello again. On Tuesday we recorded a live Radio Scotland “Global Gathering” session from the BBC in Glasgow in celebration of the work of the World Service Trust. It was a great show with live music from us and also Michael Marra, Rise Kagona and the Babylon Arabic Band. It was a great show with great music from all the bands and even some free beer from the BBC.
You can have a listen to the whole show online at the the link below. (Our part of the show starts at 1.14 hr into the show)
Listen here
9.06.09
What's coming up in 2009
Next up is a live recording for Radio Scotland’s Global Gathering on the 16th June (around 9 pm). The show is then to be broadcast on the BBC World Service so you should be able to hear it almost anywhere on this world and maybe even beyond.
Then next in July and August is what looks like an amazing tour of the USA. We have posted some of the dates on the website, more to follow. This is first time we have done a US tour since 2001 so hopefully we will see some old and new friends at the gigs. Looking forward to seeing you all the best for now.
15.05.09
Salsa Celtica Big Band
Hello all, now summer 2009 so sorry for the delay in saying thanks to all those who came down to see our shows way back in coldest January and May.
We had a great week of concerts, Saltaire, Peebles, London (St Lukes), Birnam and Glasgow’s Celtic Connections festival. They were all sold out and fantastic gigs, we finished off the mini tour with a spectacular Salsa Celtica big band gig at the Celtic Connections festival. The gig was at the Fruitmarket venue and featured a 16 piece big band line up of Salsa Celtica with guest musicians including the fantastic Scottish Gaelic singers Julie Fowlis and Kathleen MacKinnes. The gig was filmed for BBC Alba and there are some clips up on the interweb – see our video page for links.
We then had had a couple of nice gigs in England, Kendal Brewery Arts Centre and then the Bury Met in Bury we have some new live photos from all these gigs up on the site. Thanks again for coming down to the shows.
19.07.08
More festival dates announced
Here we are already in summer and still more festival dates are being added for Salsa Celtica. See the tour dates section to the right for new dates in The Netherlands, Spain and Ireland. We look forward to seeing you there.
21.05.08
Thank you!
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us on our spring tour. The final sold out show in Fintry was a real highlight. We hope to see you all again at one of the summer festival shows.
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Tour Dates
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Jul 26 Music Haven Concert Series, Schenectady, NY, USA
Jul 31 Dublin Irish Festival, OH, USA
Aug 01 Dublin Irish Festival, OH, USA
Aug 02 Dublin Irish Festival, OH, USA
Aug 04 Musikfest 2009, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Aug 05 Musikfest 2009, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Aug 06 Chicago Summer Dance in Grant Park, IL, USA
Aug 07 La Crosse Irish Fest, WI, USA
Aug 08 Irish Fair of Minnesota, MN, USA
Aug 09 Irish Fair of Minnesota, MN, USA
Aug 13 Milwaukee Irish Fest, WI, USA
Aug 14 Milwaukee Irish Fest, WI, USA
Aug 15 Milwaukee Irish Fest, WI, USA
Aug 16 Milwaukee Irish Fest, WI, USA
click here for further info
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