Tag: music festivals
The Proms: orchestras, opera, folk music, jazz, top class artists from across the United Kingdom and from many other parts of the world, rock stars and stars of classical …
KitchenFest/Féis a’ Chidsin is back on Cape Breton. From 28 June through 7 July, good music and good cheer will fill the summer air on this island in the …
Savannah, Georgia has been a crossroads of travel, trade, and ideas since it was founded in 1733. It is also a natural crossroads for musicians, the ideas they share, …
Celtic Connections seemed a crazy idea: a folk music festival, staged at a formal concert hall, in the middle of Scotland’s dark, cold, rain and snow filled winter weather? …
Jazz to bluegrass, opera to gospel, Celtic to classical: the city of Savannah, Georgia has been a crossroads of musical genres since its origins as a port city and …
The depths of winter, you might think at first, is not when you’d go looking for music festivals in the colder parts of the world. The winter weather outside …
Autumn in Nova Scotia: brilliant gold, red, and brown foliage, crisp northern nights, the tang of salt sea in the air — and music. Nowhere does all this come …
Trees. They are part of travel almost everywhere, by presence or absence, be they many or few. In Scotland, Highland Perthshire, just at the point where the Highlands begin …
by Kerry Dexter Winter festivals have their own special charm. Gathering together when dark comes early, the weather’s cold, when you may see the sparkle of winter stars in …
Indigo. . It’s that deep shade which lies between blue and violet in a rainbow. It is a shade which shows up in the arts and textiles of cultures …
As autumn turns to winter, the hillsides and glens of Highland Perthshire in central Scotland come ablaze with color. They also come ablaze with music, centered in the town …
Traditional Scottish music from the Isle of Skye, hip hop from Edinburgh, and a top cellist playing Bach. A workshop in lantern making. Talks on Scottish nationalism, ecology, the …
