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Showcase Scotland with Fiddlers' Bid, Brendan Campbell, Bodega and Corrina Hewat

Thursday 29th January 2009, 9.30pm

Old Fruitmarket :

A packed programme of diverse home-grown talent, kicking off this weekend’s tenth Showcase Scotland promotion at Celtic Connections, during which around 180 international music-industry delegates will attend performances by dozens of Scottish acts.

This one-stop sampler concert includes the mighty Shetland seven-piece Fiddlers’ Bid: four outstanding fiddlers, expertly backed with harp, piano, guitar and bass. Famed equally for hurricane-force reels and silkily orchestrated slower numbers, they’ll be previewing new sets from their forthcoming fifth album.

Also on the bill are the young vocal/instrumental quintet Bodega, with their dynamic mix of traditional, contemporary and original material, and singer/harpist Corrina Hewat, taking time out from the Unusual Suspects to showcase the stunningly innovative solo artistry displayed on her latest release, Harp I Do.

Glaswegian singer, songwriter and guitarist Brendan Campbell, meanwhile, continues to carve out his own distinct niche on the nu-folk scene, merging Celtic lyricism with moody urban edge.