Celtinental Music - A Celtic music booking agency with select, award winning musicians!
John Renbourn of Pentangle considers Tony McManus a leader in Celtic music on the guitar, and Guitar Player Magazine rated him one of the top 50 transcendent guitarists in the world. He has performed with Celtic masters such as Kevin Burke, Alasdair Fraser, Natalie MacMaster, and non Celtic folks such as Tommy Emmanuel, and at the Chet Atkins Festival. Tony translates the traditional Celtic pipe and fiddle music to guitar with a mastery unheard of by others, earning him invites from folk, classical, and guitar specific festivals worldwide.
Iona has been winning awards and hearts across the UK, Canada, Australia, and Europe with her beautiful renditions of traditional and contemporary Scottish songs and more. In a relatively short time she has graced major festival stages as well as intimate club venues, wowing audiences at both, and winning several traditional music awards along the way. Iona has also performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as part of the World Premiere of Disney Pixar’s Brave in Concert at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Critics have been praising her CD "Dark Turn of Mind," with its mixing of Americana and jazz elements in with the traditional, and her charmingly beautiful voice slips easily from sadly wistful to strong and vibrant within the same song.
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John is a consummate all around performer, as well as being seven-time All-Ireland accordion champion, and has graced major festival stages and smaller venues. John is a master at his instrument, and has played with other renowned artists both in and out of the Celtic genre, as well as being a prolific writer - his music has been used in such tv shows as "Sex and the City," and movies, as well as being recorded by other artists. His performances are also full of fun and humor, and the special John Whelan audience rapport and charm.
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Gerry is an amazing award winning traditional Irish fiddle player, having performed and recorded with his bands La Lugh, Skylark, Oirialla, and with Breton guitarist Gilles Le Bigot, plus other luminaries in Irish music such as the Irish Rovers, Chieftains, Bothy Band, and more. An all around Renaissance man, Gerry has won many fiddle competitions, teaches, adjudicates competitions, and builds fiddles! Gerry is usually accompanied on his US tour by guitarists Kevin McElroy or Don Penzien, both of whom have accompanied many other well known touring Irish artists.
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The Tannahill Weavers are one of Scotland's Premier traditional bands, and now considered a national treasure. Their shows are simply sheer high energy fun for all, with a perfect mix of the old and the new. They were the first trad band to add bagpipes into the mix, and their piper now is the youngest clan leader in Scotland. Besides playing pipes Iain also plays fiddle beautifully as well, and sings in Gaelic!​​​​
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Skyrie is a Scottish high energy band from Fife comprised of respected musicians of the Scottish trad and other genres. Two of the musicians have accompanied icon Dougie MacLean since his early days, and they all recently performed at Celtic Connections with him. All have been session musicians performing with other well known bands outside of the tradition, and they have lifted traditional Scottish ceildh music to a higher level with innovative twists of their own, adding their own contemporary tune writing into the mix.
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Scottish Fish present a fresh take on traditional and contemporary Scottish and Cape Breton music. Their lively and unique arrangements are woven together from session music handed down from generations of the tradition’s finest players. They have performed at renowned venues the Burrenan and Club Passim, and at various other public and private venues and festivals across the United States.
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Chloe Matharu is an Award winning Scottish Indian singer songwriter and harpist on the the West Coast of Scotland. She performs with her harp in English, Scots and Welsh. Her music offers "an intriguing insight into a new tradition of maritime folk music with thoughtful song writing embellished by her voice and superb harp playing" - The Herald, and has performed at impressive venues such as Celtic Connections, Cambridge Folk Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, and Hartlepool Folk Festival. She received Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Year for her debut album, Small Voyages, and was selected by Showcase Scotland in the WOMEX awarded Global Music Match 2022.
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Founded by the Sangineto twins Caterina and Adriano, Ensemble Sangineto skillfully blends ancient harmonies and sonorities with modern rhythms. The wide-ranging musical experiences of the individual members converge to create fresh arrangements of traditional Irish, Scottish, Breton & Italian tunes and original compositions that display influences from many varied musical genres ranging from classical to folk, from Gregorian chant to musical, from pop to Celtic music.