Celtic Music (record label)

This article is about the record label. For the modern folkloristic genre and its history, see Celtic music. For the music and instruments of the ancient Celts until late Antiquity, see Ancient Celtic music.
Celtic Music
Founded 1978 (1978)
Defunct early 2000s (early 2000s)
Genre folk, celtic
Country of origin England
Location Leeds & Harrogate, Yorkshire, U.K.

Celtic Music was a Yorkshire-based record label which specialised in folk and celtic music recordings operating from the 1970s to the early 2000s.

History

"Celtic Music" began life as a publishing outlet for four books of Irish session tunes compiled by Dave Bulmer and Neil Sharpley in the 1970s. It evolved into a record distribution company (CM Distribution) for other labels and eventually into a recording and record production operation in its own right that operated for some 30 years from 1978 to around 2007, owned by Dave Bulmer in Leeds and subsequently Harrogate in Yorkshire, England.[1] As well as issuing its own recordings, Celtic Music also acquired the back catalogue of various 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 whose catalogue items remain without re-release at the present time.[2] The first release on Celtic Music was the self-titled album by the band "Iona" in 1978, while the last was apparently Tich Frier's Shanghaied in 2007. For many years the registered company address ("Celtic Music") was in Louth, Lincolnshire, although "C M Records Limited" has been registered in Harrogate since 1983.[3]

Releases (Celtic Music)

Note: the following information is derived principally from publicly available sources, in particular http://www.discogs.com and https://rateyourmusic.com.[4] [5]

Singles, etc.

Other numbering sequences (reissues and special pressings)

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.livingtradition.co.uk/node/1230 The Living Tradition: "Dave Bulmer – died Aug 2, 2013, aged 62 years" (Pete Heywood, 2013)
  2. ↑ http://www.frootsmag.com/content/features/the-70s-deleted/page06.html fROOTS Magazine: "The '70s, Deleted" (fRoots 328, October 2010)
  3. ↑ https://companycheck.co.uk/company/01695834/C-M-RECORDS-LIMITED/about
  4. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/label/86508-Celtic-Music
  5. ↑ https://rateyourmusic.com/label/celtic_music/[]
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