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Poster image for The Reeling festival, listing dates for 2023 and featured acts

Summer Festival or Fèis?

10 April 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs posted earlier in the year about Celtic Connections, Scotland’s premier international festival for Celtic music.  The summer months are … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Ballads, Feis, Festival, FolkMusic, Gaelic, Modern, TraditionalMusic Leave a comment
19th century sepia tinted photography of singers from Fisk College, women and men, seated and standing around a harmonium

The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Scotland

9 March 20238 March 2023 by Rosa Michaelson

A picture of the Fisk Jubilee Singers is available from the Library of Congress: no restrictions on reproduction. Scotland’s historic … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, Choir, EvangelicalRevival, FiskSingers, FolkMusic, ScottishBlackHistory Leave a comment
A folk-rock band from the 1960s The Clutha

Review: Eleanor Bell and Linda Gunn (eds.), The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution?

1 February 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image source: Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame (Hands up for Trad) – on The Clutha.   This year marks … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Edinburgh, Festival, FolkMusic, FolksongRevival, Glasgow, Jazz, Pop, Rock Leave a comment
Contemporary College Building in Glasgow

Review: Josephine Miller’s “Community-based Traditional Music in Scotland”

7 November 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: the John Wheatley Building and Community College, Haghill, in East End Glasgow, used as the venue for many classes … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 21stCentury, Fiddle, FolkMusic, Glasgow, Pedagogy, TraditionalMusic Leave a comment

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