Fiddle

tenor banjo

mandola

vocals

"...Celine Donoghue is an outstanding example of the new young breed of traditional musician...The future ...looks exceedingly bright, and this most charming and talented of musicians will have deserved all of it..." Allan McIntosh Brown, IRISH MUSIC MAGAZINE

Calasaig member, Celine was a finalist in the inaugural Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year competition and winner of the All Britain Fleadh for tenor-banjo in 2001, She is in her 3rd year of the BA (Scottish music) course at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Celine was featured alongside Keith Easdale, at Celtic Connections Master & Apprentice concert series in 2003 and performed with him at the inaugural Burns Memorial Lecture given by Kofi Annan at the United Nations New York in January 2004

Her debut solo album Something Else, whose guest musicians include some of the best-known and most respected traditional players in the world (Brian McNeil, Wendy Weatherby, Steve Lawrence, Mick West, John Gahagan, Vladimir Skiba, Alexander Krotov) is out on REL.

"...a fine debut album..." Robbie Shepherd BBC SCOTLAND

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"The album title is right, this really is something else!...there's so much that makes it stand out;... Celtic folk music in a new light - still fiddle-led, still old and new ones, European influences and Scottish songs, but decidedly Something Else." MUSIC IN SCOTLAND

"Celine Donoghue is a name we're bound to hear more of..." THE SCOTS MAGAZINE

Celine was the 2003 recipient of the Auleen Theriault Young Tradition Award at Goderich Celtic Festival in Ontario Canada. The festival, one of Ontario's top cultural attractions, said that she "...combines great technical skills with a passion for the music and a warm personality that enwraps her audience...Celine brings life, lift, love and laughter to each performance whether before several thousand or in an intimate session..."

She received her award alongside the Ernie King Tradition Bearer winner, the musician, collector and film maker, Peter Kennedy from England.

Celine & Keith with Kofi Annan

Photo: Alan Wylie

Celine Donoghue with Keith Easdale (Duo)

Tour dates

30/08/03 - Trad In The City, GLASGOW

29/09/03 - The Stand, GLASGOW

31/10/03 - Traditional Arts Partick, The Annexe, GLASGOW

30/11/03 - Taybank Hotel TMSA session (with Jim Malcolm)

14/12/03 - Taybank Folk Club, Taybank Hotel, DUNKELD

13/01/04 - The Robert Burns Memorial Lecture The United Nations, New York, USA

15/01/04 - Celtic Connections schools' Burns concert, Main Stage, Royal concert Hall, GLASGOW

16/01/04 - Celtic Connections schools' Burns concert, Main Stage, Royal concert Hall, GLASGOW

30/01/04 - Celtic Connections Schools concert, Main Stage, Royal Concert Hall, GLASGOW

05/03/04 - Stonehaven Folk Club

12/03/04 - Stonehouse Folk Club

14/03/04 - The Wee Folk Club, EDINBURGH

21/03/04 - Neil Gow Festival, Birnam House Hotel, DUNKELD

26/03/04 - Feis Dhun Bhreatainn An Iar Ceilidh, DUMBARTON

13/04/04 - Chapleton Folk Club

14/04/04 - Dunfermline Folk Club

20-23/04/04 - 'Glasgow - Scotland With Style', Philadelphia USA

17/05/04 - Eastwood Theatre, GLASGOW

14/06/04 - Stirling Folk Club

06/09/04 - Glenfarg Folk Club

16/10/04 - McCormack's Music Store, GLASGOW 2pm

Photo: Alan Wylie

Discography

In addition to her playing on Calasaig recordings Near & Far, Beginnings and Merchants City - Celine also appears on the following albums.

Donald Lindsay To the Drum of the Sea (REL 2003)

Celine Donoghue Something Else (REL 2003)