One of the great musical traditions in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton is its Gaelic singing. That’s pronounced “gallic,” as in the language of the Highlands of Scotland – brought to eastern Canada by the ...
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 ...
Perth Concert Hall has assembled a stellar line-up of Scottish singers and musicians to celebrate the legendary songwriter and pianist Burt Bacharach in a brand-new show Scotland Sings Bacharach.
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. "Single SaddleBag," a musical duo comprised of Alice Hanks (vocals and upright bass) and Jim ...
A wave of cancellations — including Paisley Alive and five other events — has exposed the fragile economics of Scotland’s festival ...
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 ...
Scotland is headed back to the DuPage County Fairgrounds! Following the success of recent years in Wheaton, the Midwest’s ...
ON A street of soot-stained sandstone, tucked behind Scotland’s National Museum, a door is thrown open and then pulled shut against the cold. A snatch of sound—chatter, strings and the strum of a ...
Members of Franz Ferdinand, Idlewild and Frightened Rabbit are among the musicians protesting against BBC Scotland axing specialist late night music shows. The BBC announced earlier this year that it ...