The Glasgow Orchestral Society Celebrates 150 Years of Amateur Music-Making
150th Anniversary Concert – 7:30pm Saturday 25th March 2023, Glasgow City Halls The Victorian age was a great age of … Read more
150th Anniversary Concert – 7:30pm Saturday 25th March 2023, Glasgow City Halls The Victorian age was a great age of … Read more
A picture of the Fisk Jubilee Singers is available from the Library of Congress: no restrictions on reproduction. Scotland’s historic … Read more
Image: Glasgow Orpheus Choir v1, recorded in the early 1950s as a heritage album A few years ago, preparing to … Read more
You could put a pin in a map of any town and village in Scotland and find somewhere a photograph … Read more
Image: from University of St Andrews Special Collection, first edition of “Carmina Gadelica” vol.1 (Edinburgh, T & A Constable, 1900), … Read more
Sometimes histories are cut short before they have fully played out. Soundyngs is sad to hear that the Nevis Ensemble … Read more
Editor: The Spinacino Consort is based in Scotland, and its performances draw on careful research about the early modern song … Read more
The musical feast which is Celtic Connections is starting this week, running from 19th January to 5th February 2023 in … Read more
Can history be taught through song? Well yes, according to a new band, The Tenementals, who are working on their … Read more
Image: “James Hogg, Poet, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’”, painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830. CC Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of … Read more
New research continues to add detail to our understanding of the role played by dancing in the historical musical life … Read more
‘Claimed from Stationers’ Hall’ was an AHRC-funded research network (2017-2018), bringing together academic and special collections librarians, book historians and … Read more