Review: The Edge of the Sea by Craig Armstrong and Calum Martin
The Edge of the Sea by Craig Armstrong and Calum Martin. Featuring the Scottish Ensemble and Duncan Chisholm, and psalm … Read more
The Edge of the Sea by Craig Armstrong and Calum Martin. Featuring the Scottish Ensemble and Duncan Chisholm, and psalm … Read more
Soundyngs welcomes guest writer Catherine Helferty, BMus BEd, who is an MLitt candidate in Sacred Music at the University of … Read more
Image: The Bay City Rollers in Edinburgh before they were famous, from Edinburgh Live, photo credit Len Cumming. This post … Read more
Soundyngs’ editor laments their inability to speak Gaelic but this new collection of Tolmie’s collected songs is generously furnished with … Read more
Soundyngs was rummaging around in the internet this week and found this resource in the webpages of the National Library … Read more
History starts, I guess, “yesterday”, and this book pushes right at the threshold of what is “history” and what is … Read more
The story of the Scottish Reformation and its music is here brought into focus by the biography of Jhone (John) … Read more
Soundyngs recently reviewed a book on 19th century popular entertainment. Today’s post reviews a picture-book history of Scottish dance halls … Read more
Review: The Life of a Showman: David Prince Miller A review is normally of a new book, but in this … Read more
Image: cover art from Window to the West This book, jointly authored by Meg Bateman and John Purser, is an … Read more
Image: The Bog Trotters Band, in Galax, Virginia, 1937. Autoharp, fiddlers, guitar. Geologically, the Appalachians are a continuation of the … Read more
Image: cover of a 1600 edition of the Gude and Godle Ballatis, from Wikipedia / Project Gutenberg Soundyngs has posted … Read more