Tag: Scotland
Every year around this time, the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh runs a competition for sighting of the elusive mythological creature known as the haggis, which is said to roam …
Coming up in mid January, the Celtic Connections Festival, will light up the winter season in Glasgow, Scotland with music. There will be pipe bands, cutting edge contemporary Scottish …
November 30 is the national day of Scotland, Saint Andrew’s day. It is celebrated with festivals, events, and family gatherings from Shetland off the far north coast to Hadrian’s …
Autumn in highland Perthshire, in Scotland, is a time for changing colors in the trees, a crisp edge ot the air, and a time for celebrating music, with a …
Part big band, part jazz combo, part folk, part orchestra: The Unusual Suspects are just that: unusual. They make music with harp, piano, saxophone, trumpet, bagpipes, uillean pipes, percussion, …
Waxy’s: the building has nine areas, several levels, and at any given moment any one of them will be hosting a family gathering, a wedding reception, folk cheering on …
The sparkling and fleeting moments of life, love as powerful magic, the costs of love not told, changes and more changes. learning to let go, loves found and joyous …
People have been making their living from the North Sea in what is now Stonehaven on the eastern coast of Scotland since prehistoric times. They have done a few …
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 …
A consideration of the healing power of the arts in Derry in Northern Ireland, previews of music festivals from Savannah in the US deep south to Stornoway in Scotland’s …
My favorite museums seem to share a sense of community and connection. I find that often in the ways they tell their stories, ways that invite me to think, …
For Maria Dunn, writing a song begins by “having my antenna up. There’s a moment, a way a story or a phrase touches me I get a chill down …
