Celtic Connections 2009

Pete Molinari is a folk blues singer/songwriter from Chatham, England, of Egyptian/Maltese parentage. Walking Off The Map is his first release, recorded live on half track in Billy Childish's kitchen - which is how Billy's wife came to sing on Alone And Forsaken and duets with Pete on his great tune We Belong Together. Pete has been playing solo for five years, honing his unique vocal style playing bars and cafes of New York's East Village as well as his home town of Chatham.

Tim O'Brien (b. March 16, 1954 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American bluegrass, old time and celtic musician. O'Brien plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and mandocello and is an accomplished vocalist. He moved to Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s and became part of the music scene there. In 1978 he founded the bluegrass group Hot Rize. Hot Rize had its own offshoot band called Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers.

Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter Kim Edgar released her debut album, butterflies and broken glass, on 25th February 2008.

It’s no surprise that Kim describes the album as a set of short stories, rather than songs, with a collection of children’s stories and a degree in English Language & Literature under her belt:

“I hope that these stories about the everyday, in its beauty and its broken-ness, will tell a familiar story to many people - to those who have observed acts of kindness as well as acts of cruelty, and those who find hope in life’s details.”