Initially formed in the mid 1970’s, combining folk, rock and jazz players from the Glasgow music scene, New Celeste created controversy at that time with their rock and jazz treatments of traditional music and their fast and furious stage act. In the 1990’s, guitarist and singer Iain Fergus formed a contemporary version of New Celeste with several new musicians, and recorded a new CDs for Lismor/Iona Records in Glasgow called ‘The Celtic Connection’.