The Music Café
Bruce MacGregor hears about the music being made, played and talked about in Scotland with live sessions, new releases and interviews with musicians of the moment.
The Music Café - 01/09/2010
Bruce MacGregor hears Heidi Talbot on music and motherhood, Rod Jones and Emma Pollock on the Fruit Tree Foundation, and Hugh MacDonald describes some bizarre venues for live music.
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The Music Café - 01/12/2010
World-class banjo player Tony Furtado brings his masterclass to Scotland and Buena Vista Social Club creator Nick Gold talks about realising his Afro-Cubism dream.
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The Music Café - 02/02/2011
The future of the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music is in jeopardy. Should we accept that music tuition is a victim of public spending cuts?
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The Music Café - 02/06/2010
1980s pop icon Tracey Thorn joins Bruce Macgregor to discuss her career and new album Love and its Opposite, plus James Nice talks about Shadowplayers, his book on Factory Records.
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The Music Café - 03/11/2010
Chrissie Hynde and JP Jones talk about their musical collaboration and reveal how their passionate feelings, heartbreak and honesty led to an uplifting rock 'n' roll album.
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The Music Café - 05/01/2011
Bruce MacGregor talks to Ian Green, the man behind Greentrax recordings, and John Cavanagh looks at the music of Gerry Rafferty.
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The Music Café - 05/05/2010
Bruce MacGregor hears about the music being made, played and talked about in Scotland with live sessions, new releases and interviews with musicians of the moment.
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The Music Café - 06/10/2010
Former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock talks to Bruce MacGregor about his solo career, and US band Girlyman look forward to appearing at the Glasgow Americana Festival.
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The Music Café - 07/04/2010
Conductor Robin Ticciati talks about what he hopes to bring to Scottish music and how he plans to broaden the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's appeal beyond a classical audience.
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The Music Café - 07/07/2010
Bruce MacGregor talks to cellist Carol Thorns. And what impact does giving music away for free have on smaller artists? Plus Scotland's classical musicians of the future.
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The Music Café - 08/09/2010
Bruce MacGregor is joined by Christine Bovill, discovers what Jimi Hendrix was like offstage and plays a violin made from a tree grown in Arthur Conan Doyle's former back garden.
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The Music Café - 09/06/2010
A secret insight into Jazz legend Thelonious Monk, The Scottish Symphony Orchestra at 75 and singer-songwriter, Dean Owens live in session.
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The Music Café - 10/11/2010
Featuring an exclusive session and interview with Newton Faulkner, plus Jools Holland talks about the special guest collaborators on his latest album Rockinghorse.
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The Music Café - 12/01/2011
Bruce MacGregor talks to John Szwed about unsung hero Alan Lomax, who spent years recording music around the world, helping to preserve traditional music.
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The Music Café - 12/05/2010
Soul legend Ruby Turner talks Culture Club and Gospel. The voice of synth pop through vocoders, an antidote to football songs and swashbuckling sea shanties from Cataluna
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The Music Café - 14/04/2010
Bruce MacGregor talks to Paul Hardcastle about remixing his iconic anti-war song 19. Plus a look at Scottish Opera's performance of the surreal The Adventures of Mr Broucek.
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The Music Café - 15/12/2010
Bruce MacGregor hears about the music being made, played and talked about in Scotland with live sessions, new releases and interviews with musicians of the moment.
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The Music Café - 16/06/2010
Join Bruce MacGregor for live music from award-winning Scottish cellist Peter Gregson, plus a live session from top Irish band Buille, who are currently touring Scotland.
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The Music Café - 17/11/2010
Bruce MacGregor hears about the music being made, played and talked about in Scotland with live sessions, new releases and interviews with musicians of the moment.
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The Music Café - 19/01/2011
Imelda May talks about rockabilly influences, learning to sing the blues, Lenny the dwarf and upstaging a fiddle band, plus John Cavanagh examines the roots of the rockabilly sound.
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The Music Café - 19/05/2010
Bruce MacGregor talks to Fatboy Slim about his return to the Highlands for Rockness and hears from singer Margaret Bennett about a conference celebrating Scots and Gaelic song.
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The Music Café - 20/10/2010
Ali Campbell talks about his new album Great British Songs, The Bevvy Sisters play live, and there's a preview of Gabriel Jackson's latest work, inspired by a redundant RAF base.
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The Music Café - 21/04/2010
Bruce MacGregor hears about the music being made, played and talked about in Scotland with live sessions, new releases and interviews with musicians of the moment.
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The Music Café - 21/07/2010
Bruce MacGregor has an exclusive interview with Roseanne Cash, plus Karine Polwart discusses the importance of the live session and Barb Jungr on the men she loves and why!
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The Music Café - 22/09/2010
Bruce MacGregor talks to composer, conducter and minimalist musician Michael Nynam, plus Brian Gore, Pino Forastiere and Alexandre Gismonti are in the studio. Also Furnace Mountain.
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The Music Café - 22/12/2010
Rachel Sermanni plays a live session and talks about her rise to prominence. Plus what makes a good Christmas song - a catchy tune, a festive theme or reaching the No 1 spot?
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The Music Café - 24/11/2010
Billy Bragg talks about how the economic and political climate is giving rise to new music, plus Paul Whittaker on signing music and Baseball fan Glen Donnellen plays the batolin.
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The Music Café - 25/08/2010
The Low Anthem talk about winning a Mojo award, singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore reveals why she turned down the major record labels and guitar virtuoso Antonio Forcione plays live.
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The Music Café - 26/01/2011
Vivaldi expert Adrian Chandler talks about the discovery of a lost Vivaldi concerto and musician Tommy Beavitt talks about singing Burns songs in Russian.
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The Music Café - 27/10/2010
For the first time in their history, the University Choirs of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St Andrews perform together in a series of unique concerts.
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The Music Café - 28/04/2010
Guitar virtuoso Martin Taylor plays live and talks to Bruce about his online Guitar Academy. Plus have we lost the art of learning music? And hear Vivaldi performed behind bars.
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The Music Café - 28/07/2010
Bruce MacGregor brings you a selection of live sessions from Dean Owens, The Avett Brothers, Rokia Traore and many many more.
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The Music Café - 29/09/2010
Featuring live music from singer-songwriter Alex Cornish, Judie Tzuke back on the road again and Mary Chapin Carpenter on her latest album The Age of Miracles.
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The Music Café - 29/12/2010
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tracey Thorne and Judy Tzuke talk to Bruce MacGregor about relaunching their careers.
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The Music Café - 30/06/2010
Vic Galloway speaks to Martha Reeves ahead of her Glasgow concert, plus he hears from musician Chris Singleton who has battled against hyperacusis, a rare 'allergy to sound'.
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The Music Café - Belladrum weekend
Bruce MacGregor talks to Grant Nicholas from Feeder about appearing at the Belladrum festival, plus he has a preview of a new jazz suite inspired by bird sounds on Islay.
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The Music Café - Duncan Chisholm, Mark Clements
Bruce MacGregor speaks to The Boy Who Trapped the Sun, former gillie Colin MacLeod, plus there's music from fiddler Duncan Chisholm and composer Helen Grime talks about her work.
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The Music Café - Niki King
Bruce MacGregor talks to Niki King about the influence of Billie Holiday on her own music. Stuart Nisbet reflects on how Elvis crossed the racial and musical divides in 50s America.
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The Music Café - Paul Weller
Paul Weller talks about the inspiration behind his tenth solo album and 16-year-old singing sensation Nikki Yanofsky reveals what it was like to perform at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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The Music Café - Stephen Duffy sits in
Stephen Duffy sits in for Bruce MacGregor and hears about the music being made, played and talked about in Scotland with live sessions, new releases and interviews.
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The Music Café - Vic Galloway and The Shee
Vic Galloway has The Shee live in session plus new music from Syd Barrett. And what happens when you mix pop with politicians?
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The Music Café - Vic Galloway presenting
Milos Karadaglic tells Vic Galloway how music helped him escape the Balkans war, while Louise Wener reveals the truth behind the drug and testosterone-fuelled Britpop era.
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