Pete Shepheard and Springthyme Records
Image: Scots Songs and Music Recorded at the Kinross Festival of Traditional Music and Song (Springthyme Records SPR/SPRC 1001 LP, … Read more
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Pete Shepheard remembers Scottish Folk Festivals and TMSA Competitions
Image: Festival at Blairgowrie (Topic Records, Topic 12T181, 1967), recorded by Pete Shepheard. An interview with Pete Shepheard held on … Read more
Pete Shepheard remembers … the St Andrews Folk Club, and the early days of the traditional song revival
Image: Imperial Hotel, South Street, St Andrews, from late 1905s postcard “Dig from where you stand” is a precept that … Read more
Scottish Bells
Image: Bells from Holy Trinity Church. A carillon of 15, c1926. Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, … Read more
Sounding Stones: Reconstructing Historic Scottish Sacred Soundscapes
‘The Ringing Stone of Tiree’ in J.A. Harvie-Brown and T.E. Buckley A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides … Read more
The Crannog at Loch Tay: whistles and lyres
Image: whistle and lyre bridge, from EXARC.net 2020(1), Collinson, photographed under CC BY-NC 4.0 licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en Soundyngs recently wrote about … Read more
Burns’s Family Flute and Other Pastoral Pipes
Image: Burns Family Flute display from Ellisland Farm Museum. Please see Further Reading for their site and how to contribute … Read more
Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century
Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions … Read more
Scottish Musical Place Names
Image: Piper Street in Keith (author’s own photograph) Summer holidays always throw up some musical curiosities, and this year’s highlight … Read more
‘Give Me Your Hand’: Fife connections for this traditional tune
Image: The Towers, Dysart, Fife image from author’s own collection. The Towers, in Dysart’s East Quality Street, was an elegant … Read more
Orcadian war songs: new flytings, old tunes
Image: Five naval colleagues at Lyness, Isle of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, where the main naval base for the British fleet, … Read more
Scottish Music Centre: Curating Scottish Composers and Composition
It’s a strange thing for folk like this writer to realise that stuff going on in our youth is now … Read more