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Book cover The Scottish Orpheus a collection of the most admired songs of Scotland

Review: A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity Scotland’s Printed Music 1880-1951

6 January 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Karen McAulay has, until this summer, been a librarian at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, and she brings her skills as … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, CommunitySinging, Glasgow, MusicEducation, MusicPublishing, Printing, Publishing, Victorian Leave a comment
Scottish and Polish flags

Poles in Exile: Refugee contributions to Scottish Music

5 February 2024 by Jane Pettegree

This month many of you might be thinking about the latest waves of enforced migration from regions experiencing war and … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, ClassicalMusic, Concerts, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Piano Leave a comment
Book cover title Are Ye Dancin'? showing a 6 piece band lineup with guitars and drums in a dance hall

Review: Are Ye Dancin’? Scotland’s 20th Century Dance Halls

13 November 202313 November 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs recently reviewed a book on 19th century popular entertainment. Today’s post reviews a picture-book history of Scottish dance halls … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, dancebands, DanceHall, Glasgow, Rock Leave a comment
Glasgow Orchestral Soceity 150 Years logo in gold, with Rennie Mackintosh logo showing notes

The Glasgow Orchestral Society Celebrates 150 Years of Amateur Music-Making

20 March 2023 by Jane Pettegree

150th Anniversary Concert – 7:30pm Saturday 25th March 2023, Glasgow City Halls The Victorian age was a great age of … Read more

Categories Articles Tags #Amateur, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Glasgow, Orchestra 3 Comments
Old record cover showing a choir seated in ranked seats

The Glasgow Orpheus Choir: roots, growth, and legacy

22 February 202322 February 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Glasgow Orpheus Choir v1, recorded in the early 1950s as a heritage album A few years ago, preparing to … Read more

Categories Articles Tags Choir, Glasgow, HughRoberton, Orpheus, Song 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
Celtic Connections logo from the Festival - just that text

Celebrating Celtic Connections: A Very Short History

20 January 202320 January 2023 by Jane Pettegree

The musical feast which is Celtic Connections is starting this week, running from 19th January to 5th February 2023 in … Read more

Categories Articles Tags CelticConnections, Celticism, Festival, Glasgow Leave a comment
The Testament band playing at Glasgow Trades Hall

Radical Glasgow Songsters

16 May 202316 January 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Can history be taught through song?  Well yes, according to a new band, The Tenementals, who are working on their … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Bands, FolksongRevival, Glasgow, Song 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

Glasgow Pavilion Theatre: Scottish Music Hall heritage at a crossroads

26 September 2022 by Jane Pettegree

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

Categories General Tags 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Glasgow, MusicHall Leave a comment

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