All Celtic Music do a fantastic job of distributing traditional music around the world. As you will see from the text below they have been around for a long time and they have successfully moved with the times to work in this new digital era. They have been a sponsor of the Scots Trad Music Awards for the last 4 years sponsoring Folk Band of the Year. Thanks very much guys!
Read about All Celtic Music in their own words:
How do you fill a space under the offices of Lismor Recordings, one Scotland’s leading traditional labels?
Easy! You open a record shop selling the music. And the Scottish & Irish Music Store was opened in Kilmarnock Road in Glasgow to do just that and support the company’s growing mail-order trade to expatriot Scots all around the World and indirectly launching Lismor Recordings into the global marketplace too, exporting the traditional Scottish music all over the World, from Alaska to Adelaide.
This successful little venture was scuppered a bit when Lismor had to move to much larger premises in the out-of-the-way Carnoustie Place. No passing trade-no shop. BUT our intrepid gang then really dug-in and rebranded as All Celtic Music and became pretty much an on-line one-stop shop for all of the music of both Scotland and Ireland, with hints of Brittany, Galicia & Asturia and even Cape Breton in Canada was thrown into the busy pot.
This expanded catalogue of titles (over 5,000 and counting) was augmented with videos that became DVDs and occasionally bagpipe tune books. The shop and its very comprehensive stock become a ‘natural’ for the new on-line retail market and that’s where it sits today.
Keeping abreast of the music, the trends and today’s technology, The All Celtic Music team took on the mantle of ‘digital distributors’ for traditional music and currently has 30,000 tracks on all of the major technology platforms for both download and now streaming of the music to over 110 countries for over 300 clients, record companies and artists.
And after 40 years of doing it we think we nearly have it right.