Review: Fergus McCreadie Trio, Bristol Beacon bristol247.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bristol247.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
five stars
Keith Bruce FOR all the diversity in music-making that has been showcased at concerts in Celtic Connections over the years, there can have been few programmes covering as much territory as this online showcase for four very different acts at the top of their game. In fact the latter two would perhaps sit more obviously in Glasgow Jazz Festival, although the traditional music ingredients in the compositions of pianist Fergus McCreadie are utterly crucial. He was previewing tracks from his upcoming new album Cairn, released at the end of the month. There may be a new minimalism at work here, but when McCreadie introduces a “simple tune”, that signals his intention to take a riff or melodic idea into previously uncharted waters, courtesy of prodigious technique. The exciting variations he explored around the continuous thumbed pulse of Cross Flatlands could be no-one else, while the soaring Cliffside was as picturesque from its opening chords as the new music fiddl