They do not expect to find this music in a concert hall and definitely not in a royal concert hall. Lovers of Irish traditional/roots/folk music expect to be marginalised. However, I had to climb the stairs of Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall and find it literally throbbing with roots music to believe it was all going to happen. True, the thick, glossy programme was bedizened with the names of stars: John Prine, Paddy Keenan, De Dannan, Carlos Nunez, Ronnie Drew, Altan, Dolores Keane, Iris De Ment, Michael McGoldrick, Alasdair Fraser, Natalie McMaster, Kate Rusby, Brian Kennedy, La Boutine Souriante, Donal Lunny, June Tabor, Sharon Shannon, Eric Bogle, Seamus Heaney with Liam O'Flynn - and a whole lot of Scottish performers of whom you've probably never heard for reasons discussed below.
There are strange things happening." To this fresh-off-the-plane Irishwoman, Glasgow University's Rob Dunbar, speaking at a seminar on "Gaelic and Politics", was understating the astonishing nature of Glasgow's three-week-long Celtic Connections festival. `This festival, focusing on Scottish and Irish music, would have been unthinkable 15 years ago.
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