Imagine what it might be like for a British person to visit America for the first time. NINA NESBITT: Your roads are huge. There's actually room to drive. The portion sizes are, like, quadruple the ...
This year's Na Trads see beloved Scottish band Skerryvore take home the Live Act of the Year award sponsored by SHURE for the ...
The Scottish Jazz Award winners were selected by the public from a shortlist of over 25 musicians, acts, individuals and ...
We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...
There have been quite a few incredible rock bands from across the pond to make it big through the years. However, we think the Scots, in particular, are quite underrated in the world of rock music.
To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, I was reminded of this oft-quoted Robert Burns verse while recently reading an article by Reiner Luyken, who has spent most of his ...
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — When Rachel Clemente moved to Brattleboro in 2019, she hoped that she’d find someone who could make a small, Scottish harp, a clàrsach, ...
Formed in the spring of 2000, SGQ have toured extensively throughout the UK and Ireland and will be embarking upon their first foray into Germany in the autumn of 2005. Inspired by Celtic, Modern, ...
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) is considered by many to be one of the UK’s foremost contemporary big bands. Founder/Director and leading saxophonist Tommy Smith established the SNJO in ...
As part of a continuing series on the cross currents between traditional music and classical music, Performance Today explores the music of Scotland. Fiddler Alasdair Fraser, pianist Muriel Johnstone ...
THE line-up for a brand new Scottish music festival has been revealed. Replay, which will feature a mix of iconic artists from the 80s, 90s and noughties, will be held in Perth next summer. The ...
It has been said that the difference between a fiddle and a violin is the player, so no one likely expected classical violinists to dominate the lively Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra — and they would have ...