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Kathryn Tickell is live from Glasgow with studio sessions from artists in this year’s Celtic Connections Festival. The annual festival brings together over two thousand artists from the Celtic world and beyond in three hundred events over 18 days. In the second of two programmes from ±«Óãtv Scotland’s music studio, a selection of Festival’s leading artists come together is special performances for Music Planet – including Ævestaden, a Norwegian-Swedish trio who blend traditional instruments with electronics in songs which bring Scandinavian folklore into the modern age. Daimh also plays live, a band based in the Scottish Highlands, whose members come from across Scotland and also Canada, and the line-up is completed by Scottish harpist Catriona McKay.