Celtic Music Radio closely with many of the music and arts festivals in the Glasgow area, providing live coverage of key events, interviews with performers, and detailed what's on. information. Celtic Music Radio is closely associated with the annual Celtic Connections music festival which takes place in Glasgow every January, broadcasting 8 hours of live music and interviews from the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall daily. Celtic Music Radio works closely with the Scottish International Piano Competition broadcasting live coverage of all of the performances. The station is working with the organisers of other festivals, including the World Pipe Band Championships, Piping Live and
City Stages held on June 13–15, 2009 on Father's Day Weekend. Tickets sales were hampered by inclement weather, the struggling economy, and a poor lineup. After the event, organizers announced that the total debt had surpassed $1 million, and that no further City Stages would be produced. City Stages City Stages was a three-day arts and music festival in downtown Birmingham, Alabama that took place in and around Linn Park from 1989 to 2009. After losses in 2009 amounted to nearly half a million dollars, the organization running City Stages announced on June 25, 2009 that the event would not return the