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15 Jan - 1 Feb 2026

What's On

See what was on at this year's festival as we get ready for the next edition. 

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Folk

Traditional

World

Indie

Americana

Jazz & Soul

Gaelic

Rock & Pop

Blues

Orchestral

New Talent

Exclusive

Fusion

Late Night Music

Film

Theatre

Under 26

Folk See all

Opening Night: Celebrating Glasgow 850

16th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Across The Evening Sky: Josienne Clarke Sings The Songs Of Sandy Denny and Janice Burns & Jon Doran

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Drygate Brewery

Lewis McLaughlin and Terra Kin

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Òran Mór

Madison Cunningham and Louis Abbott

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Pavilion Theatre

Karan Casey: 'The Women, We Will Rise' and CaN Dubh

17th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Strathclyde Suite

Festival Club

17th Jan 2025
11.00pm
The Glee Club

Battle of the Folk Bands

18th Jan 2025
1.00pm
Drygate Brewery

The Glasgow that I used to Know: A Celebration of the Songs of Adam McNaughtan

18th Jan 2025
1.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium

Traditional See all

Opening Night: Celebrating Glasgow 850

16th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Merchant City Trad Trail 2025

17th Jan 2025
2.00pm
Scottish Music Centre

MacGregor’s Gathering

17th Jan 2025
5.00pm
The National Piping Centre

Mec Lir, Kinnaris Quintet & Four Men and a Dog

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Barrowland Ballroom

Saltfishforty and Moynihan

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Mackintosh Church

House of Song

17th Jan 2025
10.30pm
Novotel Glasgow Centre

Festival Club

17th Jan 2025
11.00pm
The Glee Club

Merchant City Trad Trail 2025

18th Jan 2025
11.00am
Scottish Music Centre

World See all

Orchestral Qawwali Project

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Abraham Cupeiro

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
City Halls - Recital Room

Jupiter & Okwess and ROSEYE

18th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Saint Luke's

The GRIT Orchestra

18th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Tsuumi Sound System with Frigg

18th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Òran Mór

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Frigg and Abraham Cupeiro

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
City Halls

The Zawose Queens and Sorren MacLean

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Òran Mór

We Are Here Scotland: Aref Ghorbani, Simone Seales and Miwa Nagato-Apthorp

23rd Jan 2025
7.30pm
City Halls - Recital Room

Indie See all

Oysterband 'A Long Long Goodbye'

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Saint Luke's

Lewis McLaughlin and Terra Kin

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Òran Mór

Madison Cunningham and Louis Abbott

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Pavilion Theatre

Blue Rose Code and Rhona MacFarlane

18th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Pavilion Theatre

Robin Adams and Calum Gilligan

18th Jan 2025
8.00pm
The Glad Cafe

Brownbear and CLR Theory

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Saint Luke's

Flyte and Katie Gregson-MacLeod

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Mackintosh Church

waverley. with Katie Mackie and Fidra

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Glad Cafe

Americana See all

Gretchen Peters and The Black Denims

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Barony Hall

Cahalen Morrison & Friends and Naomi Bedford & The Ramshackle Band

18th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Mackintosh Church

Jill Jackson & The Southern Heartstrings and The Niche Family

18th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Òran Mór: Auditorium

Tim O’Brien & Jan Fabricius with Seamie O’Dowd & Dermot Byrne and Katie Spencer

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium

Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group with special guest Jon Muq

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Ron Pope ‘Neon and Glass World Tour’ and Emily Scott Robinson

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Drygate Brewery

The McDades with Cua

19th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Strathclyde Suite

Rhiannon Giddens & Dirk Powell and Tom Callister Quartet

20th Jan 2025
7.30pm
City Halls

Jazz & Soul See all

corto.alto + friends: MADE IN GLASGOW

18th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Barrowland Ballroom

Matt Carmichael: Dancing with Embers and Fraser Fifield

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Barony Hall

Georgia Cécile and Daniel Rooney

21st Jan 2025
8.00pm
Old Fruitmarket

kitti & Gaïa

22nd Jan 2025
7.30pm
Drygate Brewery

Breabach with Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and Shane Cook & The Woodchippers

23rd Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Norman&Corrie

24th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Drygate Brewery

Mary Coughlan and Daniel Kimbro

30th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Mackintosh Church

Brian Kellock: By Special Request

30th Jan 2025
7.30pm
City Halls - Recital Room

Gaelic See all

Trail West and Seán R. McLaughlin & The Wind-Up Crows

18th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Old Fruitmarket

Breabach with Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and Shane Cook & The Woodchippers

23rd Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Mischa Macpherson & Friends and Sarah Markey

23rd Jan 2025
8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Strathclyde Suite

Winter Bloom: Brìghde Chaimbeul, Assynt & Sian

24th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Pavilion Theatre

Canntaireachd and Fiárock

25th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium

Cèilidh a Bhaile Mhòr

26th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The National Piping Centre

Rachel Walker and Aaron Jones with Natalie & Brittany Haas

26th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Strathclyde Suite

Ainsley Hamill: Fable with Rachel Newton: Sealladh

30th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Strathclyde Suite

Rock & Pop

Lindisfarne

19th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Old Fruitmarket

Start To End perform Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

19th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Òran Mór: Auditorium

The Great Pleasure and The Black Denims

29th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Òran Mór

Blues

Blues hour: Jon Muq

18th Jan 2025
5.00pm
City Halls - Recital Room

Bernard Butler and Yoshika Colwell

22nd Jan 2025
7.30pm
Òran Mór

Eric Bibb and Gráinne Hunt

26th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Mackintosh Church

The Great Pleasure and The Black Denims

29th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Òran Mór

Orchestral See all

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Frigg and Abraham Cupeiro

19th Jan 2025
7.30pm
City Halls

Dialogues: Su-a Lee, Duncan Chisholm, Hamish Napier & Donald Shaw

21st Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Mackintosh Church

LÙBAN: Sean Shibe & Aidan O'Rourke and Kate Young

28th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Mackintosh Church

Thirteen North: ‘Connected’, with Craig Armstrong, Seán Óg Graham and Ryan Molloy

28th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium

Donald Grant & Friends: ''The Night Overtook Us'' with Scottish Ensemble & Special Guests

30th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium

When Fish Begin To Crawl

2nd Feb 2025
8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium

New Talent See all

Battle of the Folk Bands

18th Jan 2025
1.00pm
Drygate Brewery

Danny Kyle Open Stage

18th Jan 2025
5.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Exhibition Hall

New Voices: Michael Biggins

19th Jan 2025
1.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium

Danny Kyle Open Stage

19th Jan 2025
5.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Exhibition Hall

Celtic Connections on Campus

20th Jan 2025
12.30pm
Glasgow Caledonian University

Danny Kyle Open Stage

20th Jan 2025
5.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Exhibition Hall

Celtic Connections on Campus

21st Jan 2025
12.30pm
Glasgow Caledonian University

Danny Kyle Open Stage

21st Jan 2025
5.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Exhibition Hall

Exclusive

Opening Night: Celebrating Glasgow 850

16th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Fusion See all

Mec Lir, Kinnaris Quintet & Four Men and a Dog

17th Jan 2025
7.30pm
The Barrowland Ballroom

Corrina Hewat: Song of Oak & Ivy with Alastair Savage & Alice Allen

21st Jan 2025
8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Strathclyde Suite

Cala with Fras & Special Guests

23rd Jan 2025
7.30pm
Òran Mór

Elephant Sessions and support

24th Jan 2025
7.30pm
O2 Academy

Doughnut Music: Beautiful Cosmos with Diljeet Bhachu

25th Jan 2025
8.00pm
The Glad Cafe

WorldFolk: Croft No. Five & Rumba de Bodas and The East Pointers

25th Jan 2025
8.00pm
Old Fruitmarket

Ross Ainslie & The Sanctuary Band and Leonard Barry Trio

26th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium

Flos Collective X Laura Jane Wilkie: Vent

28th Jan 2025
7.30pm
Drygate Brewery

Late Night Music See all

House of Song

17th Jan 2025
10.30pm
Novotel Glasgow Centre

House of Song

18th Jan 2025
10.30pm
Novotel Glasgow Centre

Celtic Connections BLOC Sessions

19th Jan 2025
11.30pm
BLOC+

Celtic Connections BLOC Sessions

21st Jan 2025
11.30pm
BLOC+

Celtic Connections BLOC Sessions

23rd Jan 2025
11.30pm
BLOC+

House of Song

24th Jan 2025
10.30pm
Novotel Glasgow Centre

Festival Club

24th Jan 2025
11.00pm
The Glee Club

House of Song

25th Jan 2025
10.30pm
Novotel Glasgow Centre