Exploring Our Voices Sat 30 Mar | 2pm (2hrs 30) | £16 (£12 FM) | Music & Song There are a few spaces left in this accessible workshop with singer Kirsty Law who will highlight your capabilities and voice care, while exploring rhythm, pitch and harmonies. Whether a beginner, or already a singer, this workshop will help […]
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Ceòl Mòr Ostaig Saturday 27 April 2019, CCA
Ceòl ’s Craic is the social hub and platform for contemporary Gaelic culture in Glasgow Ceòl Mòr Ostaig celebrates Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture on the Isle of Skye. Our event features students from the BA (Hons) Gaelic and Traditional Music Degree programme who are joined by world-class staff […]
Tales from the early Scottish folk club scene
Following the recent passing of so many folk who were part of Scotland’s early folk club scene , Fraser Bruce has started to collect stories from those early days from people ‘who were there’ and create a book relevant to the ‘early days’. It is not his intention to write the book as this would […]
Hands Up for Trad’s Ignition Award awarded to Mike Vass
Hands Up for Trad’s Ignition Award is an award for musicians and bands who put the charge into the tradition. At Hands Up for Trad we like to celebrate innovation so we have brought forward this award to celebrate those musicians who take chances and in doing so make Scottish trad music an exciting place […]
MG ALBA looks to BBC to fulfil settlement agreement on extra hours
MG ALBA has today (Friday 15 March) congratulated the BBC on the successful launch of its new channel and warmly welcomed the new opportunities for the production sector that lie ahead. But the organisation that operates Scotland’s Gaelic-language television channel in partnership with the BBC has called upon the corporation to ensure that BBC ALBA has the same […]
Hugh MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank Cottage
Hugh MacDiarmid (born Christopher Murray Grieve) 1892 – 1978 is acknowledged to have been Scotland’s greatest poet of the twentieth century, and a Modernist writer of international significance. His work continues to permeate and shape Scottish identity in our time. From 1952 until his death in 1978 he lived at Brownsbank Cottage just to the […]
Between Islands project to celebrate the musical links between Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides at Orkney Folk Festival
The musical connections between three of Scotland’s island groups – Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides – are to be celebrated at this year’s Orkney Folk Festival, with two collaborative concerts featuring celebrated musicians and singers from each of the areas. Leading western Isles vocalists Julie Fowlis and Kathleen MacInnes will appear alongside Shetland’s Jenny […]
Dunoon Scottish Music Workshop 19-21st July 2019
Boasting 3 world class tutors in Fiddle, Guitar and Whistle. Our workshop delivers a high-end musical masterclass in Dunoon’s much acclaimed Burgh Hall. Our modern approach to learning begins a month before the workshop. We send the sheet music and tune structure in “mp3” to you via email in June, allowing “sight readers” and “learn by ear” students time to grasp the tunes 30 days BEFORE the workshop […]
Sing for Water (Scotland) Choir (Saturday 15th June 2019)
Come and join in with your Choir, as an individual singer or as a group of singing friends and be part of our Sing for Water (Scotland) Choir raising money for Water Aid. As part of Sing for Water choirs and singers learn 6 songs separately and then come together for one big massed choir […]
Gordeanna McCulloch RIP
Very sad news today. Below is Gordeanna’s biography from her 2016 induction to the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. Gordeanna McCulloch is one of Scotland’s greatest folksong and ballad singers, with a voice as strong and individual as those of Jeannie Robertson, Belle Stewart, Jimmy MacBeath, Davie Stewart, and Willie Scott, all of whom […]