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
Soundyngs’ editor laments their inability to speak Gaelic but this new collection of Tolmie’s collected songs is generously furnished with … Read more
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
Soundyngs was rummaging around in the internet this week and found this resource in the webpages of the National Library … Read more
Image: Castlebay, Barra’s, 2020 Christmas tree made by islanders who spent the Covid lockdown making squares for this wonderful thing. … Read more
Image: cover art from Window to the West This book, jointly authored by Meg Bateman and John Purser, is an … 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
Image: from University of St Andrews Special Collection, first edition of “Carmina Gadelica” vol.1 (Edinburgh, T & A Constable, 1900), … Read more
While some songs from this new anthology were performed by Seamus Begg in October during the 2022 St Andrews Voices … Read more
Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song (Glasgow: Musica Scotica, 2020) is … Read more
Virginia Blankenhorn, Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Scottish Gaelic Poetry and Song (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019) ISBN 978-1-78874-552-9 Virginia Blankenhorn … Read more