Tag: winter festivals
The streets and businesses around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Glasgow’s city centre and West End in Scotlans will be rather quieter than usual this January. Gathering …
Celtic Connections. That’s the name of the festival that’s been lighting up Glasgow’s winter for better than twenty years now. It is also a name which both defines and …
Saint Andrew’s Day, on 30 November, is the national day of Scotland. Whether you are in Scotland or not, if you’d like to join in the celebration, there are …
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? …
Temple Bar, in the heart of Dublin City. You might think of it for its lively scene of pubs and drink. You could know it for its art galleries …
Bagpipes, tartan, fiddle tunes, whisky, Outlander, the Loch Ness Monster, Sir Walter Scott, Andy Murray — Scotland is known for many reasons. It is also one of the best …
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 …
As winter begins in Scotland, days become much shorter and the dark of night longer. You may not see sunrise until after nine in the morning and it will …
Celtic Connections: it is a festival held in the depth on Scotland’s winter that lights up and highlights connection and collaboration expressed through music. Through eighteen nights and days …
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 …
Winter in Scotland is a time of short days, early twilight, unpredictable — usually quite cold — weather. It is also a time when the music of Celtic Connections …
Florida State University: you might know it for the championship Seminole football team, the high ranked teams in just about every other men’s and women’s sport, and the dozens …
