BIG PICTURE CELTIC CONNECTIONS The metaphorical, and often literal, hangover that is a Glasgow January is in receipt of its annual booster with another Celtic Connections, a festival that has no truck with notions of first-month-of-the-year fatigue. Wipe away those blues with, well, quite a lot of actual blues, as over 2000 artists perform in 20 venues across the city. Among those appearing are the mesmeric Black Country rocker Joanne Shaw Taylor, the raucous yet poignant Felice Brothers, Mexrrissey (Morrissey-lovin’ Mexicans, obviously), Billy Bragg, King Creosote, and our pictorial stars, Scottish folksters extraordinaire, Breabach. Various venues, Glasgow, Thu 19 Jan–Sun 5 Feb.
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