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Scotland’s national centre for excellence in bagpiping has launched a new, free to access digital resource and research hub.The Archives from The National Piping Centre will protect the heritage and legacy of piping in Scotland and make valuable pieces of piping history available for students, scholars and enthusiasts around the world. The Archives from The National Piping […]

Scotland’s top musicians will tour the Highlands & Islands with Blas Festival, 2-10 September The Highlands & Islands will see a flurry of musical and cultural activity from this Friday (2nd September) until 10th September as the Blas Festival hits the road for the 18th year, visiting village halls and concert venues across the region, as well as […]

Celtic Connections, the UK’s premiere celebration of roots music, is set to showcase a series of special concerts this autumn. Best known as the largest winter music festival in Europe, Celtic Connections is closing out the 2022 programme with three special performances. The rescheduled shows, which were due to be part of the festival in […]

Tickets for a vibrant programme of concerts, shows, ceilidhs, competitions and exhibitions taking place as part of this year’s Royal National Mòd in Perth go on sale today.  Audiences can secure tickets via Horsecross Arts for a host of performances showcasing and celebrating the very best in Gaelic and Scottish traditional music and culture between the 14th – 22nd October […]

Ahead of its fortieth anniversary in 2023, the Orkney Folk Festival has recently welcomed a new festival producer – with responsibility for the festival’s artistic direction. Craig Corse, from Kirkwall, has taken the reins of the award-winning festival, having served on the committee in a variety of roles since 2007. He takes the baton from […]

A multimedia performance celebrating the land and people of Coigach and Assynt will be one of the centrepieces of this year’s Blas Festival. Talamh Beò – Living Land, commissioned by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership Scheme, is a multimedia work featuring responses to the place in music and language, especially Gaelic, reflecting long-rooted families, […]

Speactram is the exciting and innovative new album from Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Set for release on Friday 29 July 2022, this new body of work is a watershed moment for the Gaelic music scene as it revives the Gaelic popular music tradition, bringing it back into the spotlight whilst further introducing LGBTQI+ narratives into the traditional and contemporary […]

This September, join Dandelion for a major free music and arts festival with live music programmed by Celtic Connections Creative Director Donald Shaw. Dandelion is a creative programme bringing together growing, science, art and music for a series of events and activities across Scotland in 2022. After the success of the first Festival in Glasgow’s […]