The venues of Celtic Connections

Map of 17 locations in Glasgow, United Kingdom

Celtic Connections runs eighteen days in January and February out of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, and then leaks into roughly thirty other rooms across the city: a Gallowgate ballroom, two deconsecrated churches, a vegan pub basement, an art gallery after closing time. Mapped together, the venue list is a decent cross-section of where live music actually happens in Glasgow, from a 110-seat recital room to an arena. Each entry here carries the address and box office line the festival itself publishes, plus what the venue is the other eleven months of the year.

Places in this collection

  • O2 Academy — The Eglinton Street hall, the old Carling Academy, counts as a return rather than a debut: the 2027 programme brings the festival back afte…
  • Tron Theatre — A church building on the Trongate, listed by Wikipedia among the rooms that host the festival regularly. For 2027 it takes the fiftieth-ann…
  • Theatre Royal — The Hope Street theatre sits on the festival's venue list a few hundred metres from the Concert Hall, which makes it the large seated alter…
  • The Hug and Pint — A Great Western Road pub with the gig room below, and a kitchen that is vegan only rather than vegan-friendly. The site was Liquid Ship and…
  • The Glee Club — The Glasgow branch of the Glee chain, a seated comedy and music room on Renfrew Street, two minutes from the Concert Hall. Its festival lis…
  • The Glad Cafe — A café, bar and music room on Pollokshaws Road, and the festival's foothold on the south side, well away from the Concert Hall cluster. It…
  • The Garage — A Sauchiehall Street nightclub that takes festival bookings in January, with a back catalogue of shows by Prince and Radiohead on its main…
  • The Barrowland Ballroom — The Gallowgate ballroom is named among the venues that host the festival year after year, and it takes the bills that need a sprung floor r…
  • The Barony Hall — The University of Strathclyde's hall on Rottenrow was part of the moment the festival stopped being a one-building event: in 1996 the third…
  • Saint Luke's — A church building off the Gallowgate, mapped as a church and used as a theatre and live room, with the Winged Ox taking the ground floor fo…
  • Oran Mòr — At the top of Byres Road, and one of the handful of rooms Wikipedia names as regular hosts of Celtic Connections concerts rather than occas…
  • King Tut's — The St Vincent Street basement club, listed by Wikipedia among the venues the festival used in the past and back on the official venue list…
  • Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum — The galleries double as a festival stage: Karine Polwart takes the building for two nights of Curiosity Cabinet, a set written in response…
  • Glasgow Royal Concert Hall — The festival's focal point, and the building that absorbs it whole: workshops in the foyers, the New Auditorium and the Exhibition Hall eac…
  • Cottiers Theatre — A Hyndland Street room on the festival's venue list, far enough west that its programme reads as the West End's own strand of the three wee…
  • City Halls — Candleriggs holds two festival rooms under one roof, the main hall and the 110-capacity Recital Rooms, which is where artists get booked wh…
  • Citizens Theatre — The Gorbals building carries a Celtic Connections listing with its own box office line, separate from the festival's central one. Its recen…

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