Celtic Connections: Dick Gaughan, City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow, 22 Jan

Dick Gaughan doesn't do tuneful or coherent but if he did he probably wouldn't be half the draw that he is. Instead, his nasal growl is the springboard for his impassioned interpretations of songs both modern and traditional - songs about internalised racism and disenfranchised Scots and Irish and how we're basically the same in our Gaelic commonality. A man unafraid to drink Irn Bru and blow his nose on stage, the former Boys of the Lough member builds his set around his celebrated 1981 album, Handful of Earth, along with sometimes angry, sometimes humorous numbers about working folk or about Pastor Jack Glass. "I realised that if I just sang Handful of Earth, we'd all be in our beds by 9 o'clock." he says as he takes us through his new material. If only we could understand more of the words. [Paul Greenwood]