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
History starts, I guess, “yesterday”, and this book pushes right at the threshold of what is “history” and what is … Read more
In a month when the music for a coronation has been discussed intensively, the BBC broke the news this week … Read more
Scottish musical identity has steered a course through national history navigating between the devil’s fiddle and the psalm book of … Read more
Soundyngs posted earlier in the year about Celtic Connections, Scotland’s premier international festival for Celtic music. The summer months are … Read more
150th Anniversary Concert – 7:30pm Saturday 25th March 2023, Glasgow City Halls The Victorian age was a great age of … Read more
Soundyngs’ last post discussed the importance of ‘big box’ accordions to Scottish dance music and called for more writing on … Read more
Sometimes histories are cut short before they have fully played out. Soundyngs is sad to hear that the Nevis Ensemble … 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: the John Wheatley Building and Community College, Haghill, in East End Glasgow, used as the venue for many classes … Read more
Mostly, this blog concentrates on the kind of ‘history’ that feels like it sits in the past. However, history is … Read more
Image attribution: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This weekend, it was reported in the Scottish press that … Read more