Remembering Dundee’s Music Halls
Featured Image: Dundee People’s Palace Programme 1891 (with thanks to Billy Rough) A recent exhibition in the Dundee Central Library … Read more
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Robert Burns in the Belfast Linen Hall Library
Summertime is here, and Soundyngs is beginning to get a wee bit itinerant. This post finds us in Belfast’s Linen … Read more
Highland Rock Bands in late 20th Century Scotland
Image: Runrig’s final concert, ‘The Last Dance’ in Stirling, August 2018. Hic et nunc, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia … Read more
From Geneva to Stirling: Jean Servin in the Court of James VI
Another post this week on the topic of musical visitors to Scotland from Europe, intersecting this time on the strand … Read more
The Revelations: Gospel and Country Music in the Far North
Image: The Revelations. L to R: John Stewart, Sandy Bremner, Ricky Mackay and David Dunnet. It may come as a … Read more
Joe Aitken and Bothy Ballads
Image: Joe Aitken winning the Bothy Ballands Champion of Champions in 2020, photo credit Daniel Forsyth, from Grampian Online. The … Read more
Caithness Town Bands and the performance of local identity in the 19th Century
Drawing aside the veil, Soundyngs is mostly written by Jane Pettegree of the University of St Andrews, and as that … Read more
Psalm Boats
Imagine if going to church didn’t involve driving or walking … but a boat trip. This was, and possibly sometimes … Read more
Seinn Spioradail (Sacred Singing): Sacred Soundscapes of the Highlands and Islands
Image: St Michael’s Church, Eriskay (Father Allan MacDonald’s parish) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Eriskay#/media/File:St_Michael’s_Church,_Eriskay_20090608.jpg Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 Soundyngs directs readers to a new … Read more
Valentine’s Day with the Corris in Regency Edinburgh
Image: “The Lass of Pattie’s Mill”, lyrics by Allan Ramsay, arranged by Dominico Corri, from his “A New & Complete … Read more
Poles in Exile: Refugee contributions to Scottish Music
This month many of you might be thinking about the latest waves of enforced migration from regions experiencing war and … Read more
The Burns 1859 Centenary
As its local supermarket is currently awash with haggis, neeps, tatties, shortbread and that bright orange fizzy drink that provokes … Read more