Following the announcement of Wales as international partner alongside Brittany at Showcase Scotland 2023, Tŷ Cerdd, Trac Cymru and Focus Wales in partnership with Wales Arts International are running a joint call out for artists to apply to perform at the event in Glasgow next January.
Deadline for applications: 5pm, Friday 22 July
The partners will hold an online information session for those interested in applying at 5pm on 14 July. Register for the session here.
What is Showcase Scotland at Celtic Connections?
Showcase Scotland is a 5-day showcase and international trade-fair that takes place annually during the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow. The 2023 event will be a chance for musicians and their management teams to network with international music industry professionals and to develop their careers and businesses. It follows Showcase Scotland 2022, which featured digital showcases by 6 Welsh acts at the Cymru Wales Spotlight.
Celtic Connections is a major annual folk, roots and world music festival that celebrates Celtic music and its connections to cultures around the world, held in venues across Glasgow during January.
Wales was announced as co-partner for 2023 during the closing ceremony of Showcase Scotland's online edition in February 2022, where Eluned Hâf (Head of Wales Arts International) expressed her thanks to the Showcase Scotland and Celtic Connections teams and welcomed the opportunity to collaborate with close neighbours and friends in Brittany over the next year. She said, “Whilst it has always been our intention that a lasting legacy of our partnership with Showcase Scotland in 2022 would be closer working between partners in Wales and Scotland and more opportunities to welcome Scottish artists to Wales, we are delighted that sharing the stage with Brittany in 2023 will bring about opportunities to deepen multilateral connections with our Celtic cousins. And in particular to work alongside our sister agency Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne”
Watch S4C's 'Gwyl Cwlwm Celtaidd: Blwyddyn Cymru' programme to see what Wales' artists got up to at Showcase Scotland in Celtic Connections 2022.