Podcast appearances and mentions of willow tea rooms

Great to be back at Celtic Connections Festival again, chatting to special guests in front of a highly discerning audience in the fabulous Macintosh at the Willow Tea Rooms.   This time I was chatting to one of my biggest ever fiddle heroes - Charlie McKerron.   Stories, laughs, tunes and insights into his marvellous musical mind. Utterly compelling.   Enjoy!

This episode of Adam Sutherland's Interesting People is a blether and a tune with Donald Shaw and Finlay MacDonald, live from Celtic Connections Festival 2019. In the brochure it's described as the following: Join Adam Sutherland as he chats to some of the festival’s artists in the intimate and stunning setting of the newly refurbished Mackintosh at the Willow Tea Rooms, for a recording of his podcast ‘Adam Sutherland’s Interesting People’. Your host will be skillfully guiding the conversation, finding out what makes the guests tick, what drives them to do what they do and any other stories they may wish to share. This is a rare chance for audience members to learn more about the unique life stories of the people behind the music. Come and listen with a cup of tea and a wee treat in one of Scotland’s architectural masterpieces. It was great to see and hear an audience so thoroughly entertained by these charismatic, intelligent and downright hilarious musicians.  And in such beautiful surroundings!

Meet Anne Mulhern, owner of the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow. Listening to Anne you might begin to understand just how influential Charles Rennie Mackintosh continues to be not only for architects, designers and artists around the world, but also for them wot aren't, in this instance a lady who moved on from redundancy, learned how to cook, and before our local love of Mackintosh had really sprouted, took the lead from one of the most pionneering women in Glasgow's history in recreating the intricate delights of the Willow Tea Room in Sauchiehall Street, a venture borne of Mackintosh and one Miss Cranston in the early years of the 20th century.Anne talks passionately about the history of the tea rooms, the challenges she faced setting up her three magnificent rooms around the city, her influential roles in Glasgow's Leading Attractions and the Glasgow Mackintosh group, and how all of this breathtaking work falls into place in the city's perpertually developing culture.These days in Glasgow you can't open a cafe or bar without it being developed also as a cultural hub or social enterprise, and when you think of how the Willow Tea Rooms came about over a century ago and how it's been lovingly recreated by Anne into a space for exhibition and learning, you can really appreciate just how ahead of her time Miss Cranston was!

Discover Glasgow! Located on the west coast, Scotland's biggest city is full of architecture, attractions and character. No wonder it was crowned European City of Culture in 1990 as well as the city of Architecture and Design in 1999! Susan Spence takes you on a whirlwind trip of Glasgow, visiting along the way, the Willow Tea Rooms and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, as well as offering tips on what to sample from Scotland's Larder.

Discover Glasgow! Located on the west coast, Scotland's biggest city is full of architecture, attractions and character. No wonder that it was crowned European City of Culture in 1990 as well as the city of Architecture and Design in 1999. Susan Spence introduces you to the Holiday Inn Theatreland, then takes you on a whirlwind trip of Glasgow, visiting along the way, the Willow Tea Rooms, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and tips on what to sample from Scotland's Larder.