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About Celtic Connections

Celtic Connections is Glasgow's annual folk, roots and world music festival, celebrating Celtic music and its connections to cultures across the globe. This premiere winter festival will illuminate stages across Glasgow from Thursday 16 January to Sunday 2 February 2025, eclipsing dark winter nights with a kaleidoscope of internationally-renowned music, exciting new performances and unique showcases.

Celtic Connections programmes more than 300 events across multiple genres of music and the festival is renowned for its ability to bring together one-off line-ups for special collaborative shows. 

About Showcase Scotland

Showcase Scotland is an industry event, part of the Celtic Connections Festival, which promotes and facilitates export and showcasing opportunities for Scotland-based artists working in the genres of folk, traditional, world and acoustic. Over 180 delegates travel to Glasgow from around the world to experience live performances as part of the festival with the opportunity to attend a Trade Fair and various networking receptions, which have led to many important partnerships and deals for Scottish musicians in the past.

In 2025 Showcase Scotland is partnering with Ireland to showcase Irish talent. Selected Irish artists will perform as part of the Showcase Scotland event (Fri 24 January 2025) in front of an invited audience made up of industry professionals, agents, and festival and venue programmers. 

About the Ireland Delegation

We are supporting Juno King, Irish producer and curator at South Wind Blows (the production company behind Irelands Edge and Other Voices), to take part in the 2025 Showcase Scotland as part of Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow. Molly King, creative producer, curator and Head of Development at South Wind Blows, will attend as a second Irish delegate. This delegation opportunity allows delegates to explore music heritage and traditional music across the UK, while also offering delegates the chance to deep dive into the Scottish music sector. Other delegates availing of this opportunity include curators, producers and artistic directors from Turkey, Morocco, India and Brazil.

In 2025 Showcase Scotland is partnering with Ireland to showcase Irish talent. Selected Irish artists will perform as part of the Culture Ireland reception at Showcase Scotland on Friday 24 January 2025 in front of an invited audience made up of industry professionals, agents, and festival and venue programmers. There will also be a British Council reception on Saturday 25 January which will feature Irish and Scottish musicians and will celebrate international working, and 25 years of the showcase. British Council delegates will be able to attend both these receptions as well as other engagements over the course of the festival.

Read Juno and Molly's full bios below.

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About Juno King

Juno King is a producer and curator at South Wind Blows productions, one of Ireland’s foremost producers of cultural events and programming.  

She is the primary creative producer of the multidisciplinary ideas and discussion event and podcast Ireland’s Edge, which was established in 2015 with the aim of providing a platform and space for cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral thinking through a creative and cultural lens. 

Juno is also a creative producer of the internationally acclaimed music festival and television series Other Voices, which has been running for twenty three years, and has long been considered a pilgrimage for the best and brightest in Irish and international music, including Hozier, Dermot Kennedy, and Sigrid. 

She grew up in the West Kerry Gaeltacht on the south-west coast of Ireland, where she lives and works today; a place which nurtured and informed her profound appreciation and love of Irish arts and culture.

About Molly King

Molly King is a creative producer, curator and Head of Development at South Wind Blows productions, who have been at the forefront of music television and cultural programming for over thirty years. 

With a background in tech, music, television, radio and live events stemming from childhood, Molly is now at the helm of Other Voices, the internationally acclaimed television show and music festival, which is now in its 24th year. She works across all aspects of the festival which is now a permanent fixture in Ireland’s music calendar, having featured performances from the likes of Amy Winehouse, Hozier, The National and many more. Other Voices has taken place in Dingle, Belfast, Derry, Ballina, Berlin, New York, Austin, The Guinness Storehouse Dublin, Cardigan in west Wales and continues to grow with each passing year. 

 Graduating with an honours degree in Law from Trinity College Dublin in 2015,Molly spent two years as a Music Executive at ticketing app start-up DICE, based in Shoreditch, London. She joined South Wind Blows as Head of Development in 2017. 

Through her role as Head of Development Molly has developed brand partnerships with The Guinness Store House, EIR, Heineken, O’Haras, Hennessy, The Dingle Distillery, Jameson, Powers and many more besides. 

Molly has contributed to and appeared on panels for: The Irish Times, United Ireland Podcast, Output Festival, AVA Festival, RTE Radio 1, RTE 2FM, The Sunday Times, The Ireland’s Edge Podcast and more.

Molly has worked as a music consultant for the RTE Folk Awards and as a Judge for the RTE Choice Music Prize. 

Molly was raised in the West Kerry Gaeltacht, an Irish language speaking region on the south-west coast of Ireland. The rich culture, language and music of that place, and its peripherality, are what continue to drive and shape her work today. 

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