Hands Up for Trad are inviting bands to send in a demo to take part in The Battle of the Folk Bands 2020 competition to be held at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections Festival on Saturday January 25th 2020 at 2pm. If you are in a band or have an idea for a band that you haven’t tried […]
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20th Linlithgow Folk Festival
YOUNG MUSICIANS TO THE FORE AT MILESTONE FOLK FESTIVAL. The twentieth anniversary Linlithgow Folk Festival gets underway on Wednesday September 11th and the organisers have put together a packed programme for this milestone year. Young musicians will be very much to the fore at the annual celebration of traditional music, dance and song in the […]
Would you like your child to learn folk music in Glasgow? Why not come to St Roch’s Irish Minstrels on Tuesday 3rd September
I’ve sent my children to this organisation since they were 6 and they’ve had so many opportunities to play music and make friends. The Irish Minstrels are one the best Glasgow organisations to learn music as a young person. You’ll never look back. It is VERY family friendly and only £2 each child and £4 […]
World Pipe Band Champions 2019 – Inveraray and District
The 2019 championship season climaxed with the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. 2019 saw 195 pipe bands bringing around 8000 pipers and drummers from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Eire, USA, Belgium, England, Spain, Malaysia, Northern Ireland and Scotland take part. Over 30,000 people attended over two days to watch the championships. In […]
BBC ALBA animation selected for Cannes Short Film Festival
A short film which visualises the terror and drama facing soldiers in one of Britain’s worst maritime disasters has been selected for the Cannes Short Film Festival. The BBC ALBA short animation Tha thu air Aigeann m’ Inntinn (You are at the bottom of my mind), based on the Iolaire Disaster, is set to a […]
Dick Gaughan – The Harvard Tapes
A definitive Gaughan concert from 1982. Dick Gaughan has been at the cutting edge of Scottish folk music for almost five decades. A guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor, musical director, arranger, record producer, engineer and goodness knows what else – he has been there and done it all. He is a brilliant singer with a passion […]
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Nominees 2019
The nominees have been announced for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Nominees 2019. It’s a great list of acts based in the UK. Check them out below. To buy tickets for the event (16th October in Manchester) and to vote in Album of the Year click here. Folk Singer of the Year Gwilym Bowen […]
FLOOK Scottish tour dates
Don’t miss this opportunity to see this fabulous band touring around Scotland.
Belhaven celebrates 300 years with brewery festival – Scotland’s breadth of traditional talent to put on spectacular show this September
The ‘Belhaven 300th Birthday Bash’ is set to take place on Saturday 21st September and will be a celebration of the very best of Scottish music and beer. Belhaven’s story marries 300 years of history with a distinctly modern outlook and the festival line up reflects this marriage of traditional and modern. The main stage […]
Elephant Sessions and Word Elephant Day release a single to raise funds for the charity on August the 9th 2019.
Elephant Sessions and World Elephant Day have teamed up to release a single which will raise funds for the charity. The band from the Highlands of Scotland are famed for their unique brand of indie folk and have won Best Album and Best Live Act at the MG Alba Scots Trad Awards, in the past […]