Celtic Music (record label)


Celtic Music is a British, Yorkshire-based publishing, distribution and record label, which specialized in folk and Celtic music recordings released between the 1970s to the early 2000s. As at 2018, the company still exists but its last release of original music was in 2007.

History

Celtic Music began as a publishing outlet for four books of Irish session tunes compiled by Dave Bulmer and Neil Sharpley in the 1970s, with the term first appearing on "Music from Ireland Volume 2" from 1976. It evolved into a record distribution company for other labels and then into a recording and record production operation from 1978 to around 2007 that was owned by Dave Bulmer in Leeds and Harrogate in Yorkshire, England. As well as issuing its own recordings, Celtic Music also acquired the back catalogue of other folk music record labels when the latter were on-sold, including Leader, Trailer, Rubber Records, Black Crow, Dambuster, Highway, Sweet Folk and Country, Greenwich Village, Mulligan, Broadside, Folk Heritage, and Making Waves, the majority of which, however, have not been re-issued.
The first release on Celtic Music was the self-titled album by the band Iona in 1978, while the last was Tich Frier's Shanghaied in 2007. For many years the registered company address was in Louth, Lincolnshire.

Discography

The following list includes all releases credited to "Celtic Music" about which information is presently available. Item numbers marked "??" are presently untraced and may never have been issued.

Albums