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 […]
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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 […]
Scotland’s Musicians To Showcase At International Celtic Festival This August
This summer, one of Scotland’s leading traditional arts organisations, Fèis Rois, is hosting the Scotland Pavilion at the acclaimed Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany, France for a second year, with over 80 hours of music, song and dance from some of Scotland’s best up and coming artists programmed. The festival, which is set to […]
Tinto Summer School is go!
We are writing to you this week from Tinto Summer School. We are at Wiston Lodge in South Lanarkshire and the house is buzzing with young people playing music, throwing frisbees and kicking footballs. It is fantastic! We are making a daily vlog – Monday to Friday – and you can watch all the videos […]
Fans Asked to Pipe Up with Favourite Memories of Bagpipes
Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival are asking fans from across the globe to submit their fondest piping memories – giving them chance to become part of the festival’s history and have their story printed on the official Piping Live! 2019 festival T-shirt, available to buy when the event returns from 10 – 18 August […]