Happy New Year!!

I hope 2012 is a great year for you.

It’s Celtic Connections Festival time again in Glasgow this month. This is a massive festival of all things connected with Celtic Roots music. From traditional Folk music through to Americana, Pop, Rock and singer-songwriters.

I’m doing a few performances at the festival.  First up I will be opening for the fantastic Americana singer-songwriter Tom Russell on the 22nd January at The Tron Theatre - www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/118659-Tom-Russell-and-Support

Next up I have been invited to take part in BBC Radio Scotland’s Another Country radio show on the 27^th January. This is presented byRicky Ross and will be broadcast live in front of a studio audience from the BBC at their Pacific Quay headquarters in Glasgow. Also on the show are the fantastic Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion.

Tickets are available for this event. For details check out -http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/119559-BBC-Radio-Scotland-92-95FM-&amp%3B-810MW-Live-Radio-Broadcasts-Another-Country-With-Ricky-Ross (note it mentions Feb 3^rd in this link. There is a show then too)

On the 29^th January I will be taking part in the Hazy Recollections concert at the ABC 2 in Glasgow at 2.30 pm. For details visit – http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/118849-Hazy-Recollections

This should be a brilliant afternoon of music with various singer-songwriters performing.

My big news is that my new album New York Hummingbird will be released on March 26th on Songboy Records.

Produced in New York and New Jersey by Ray Ketchem with Dave Derby the album features a host of New York, New Jersey and Nashville musicians.  I’m over the moon with how it’s turned out. The fantastic album artwork was designed by James Morrison at Mojo Creative in Glasgow.

The tracks listing is:

Desert Star

No One’s A Failure

The One That Got Away

Springtime

Lost Time

Baby Fireworks

Snowglobe

Solo (Valentine NYC)

Wander On

New York Hummingbird

Here’s a link to a live acoustic performance of Solo (Valentine NYC) –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7MtFgq9Q3k Thanks to James at Mojo Creative for this. James shot this wee video during our photo shoot for the album cover.

I want to be out playing as much as possible in 2012 to promote New York Hummingbird so if you know of any good venues in your town that I should look into playing or if any of your friends would be interested in hosting a House Concert in 2012 please drop me a line. Thanks.

On the 22nd February I’m opening for Kris Drever at the Slaughtered Lamb in London - http://www.pulluptheroots.co.uk/page.php?id=42 and possibly playing a few other shows with Kris throughout late Feb and March. Keep an eye out for details.

Well that’s all for now.

Cheers

Dean