Soundscapes and Natural Histories: Listening to Portmoak
Image: crosssection of a bank on the perimeter of Portmoak Moss, showing how deep the peat is, and its layers. … Read more
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Review: Franz Ferdinand and the Pop Renaissance
Franz Ferdinand and the Pop Renaissance, by Hamilton Harvey (London: Reynolds & Hearn, 2005) Tapping in again to the contemporary … Read more
Review: Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment
Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment by Duncan da Silva Scottish military music … 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
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
Review: Made in Scotland: essays on Scottish Popular Music in the 20th and 21st centuries
History starts, I guess, “yesterday”, and this book pushes right at the threshold of what is “history” and what is … Read more
Rock, Rap and Modern Scottish Political Identity
In a month when the music for a coronation has been discussed intensively, the BBC broke the news this week … Read more
Scottish Psalms Online – A New Split-leaf Resource
Scottish musical identity has steered a course through national history navigating between the devil’s fiddle and the psalm book of … Read more
Summer Festival or Fèis?
Soundyngs posted earlier in the year about Celtic Connections, Scotland’s premier international festival for Celtic music. The summer months are … Read more
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
Research Profile: Stuart Eydmann on the Concertina in Scotland
Soundyngs’ last post discussed the importance of ‘big box’ accordions to Scottish dance music and called for more writing on … Read more
The Nevis Ensemble: the end of a chapter of “music for everyone, everywhere”
Sometimes histories are cut short before they have fully played out. Soundyngs is sad to hear that the Nevis Ensemble … Read more