Music review: Celtic Connections 25th Anniversary Concert

Celtic Connections triumphantly celebrated its 25th anniversary on Thursday night with an opening concert which crammed in as many acts as it could without actually locking us in the concert hall until the following day. It opened in stirring form with a solo piper from the Tryst pipe band sounding a lament on a darkened stage before giving way to the syncopated snarl of a drum salute, and closed (bar the obligatory encore jamboree) with those same pipers and drummers joining Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton in a resounding set.