Review: A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity Scotland’s Printed Music 1880-1951
Karen McAulay has, until this summer, been a librarian at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, and she brings her skills as … Read more
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Poles in Exile: Refugee contributions to Scottish Music
This month many of you might be thinking about the latest waves of enforced migration from regions experiencing war and … Read more
Review: Are Ye Dancin’? Scotland’s 20th Century Dance Halls
Soundyngs recently reviewed a book on 19th century popular entertainment. Today’s post reviews a picture-book history of Scottish dance halls … 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
The Glasgow Orpheus Choir: roots, growth, and legacy
Image: Glasgow Orpheus Choir v1, recorded in the early 1950s as a heritage album A few years ago, preparing to … Read more
Review: Eleanor Bell and Linda Gunn (eds.), The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution?
Image source: Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame (Hands up for Trad) – on The Clutha. This year marks … Read more
Celebrating Celtic Connections: A Very Short History
The musical feast which is Celtic Connections is starting this week, running from 19th January to 5th February 2023 in … Read more
Radical Glasgow Songsters
Can history be taught through song? Well yes, according to a new band, The Tenementals, who are working on their … Read more
Review: Josephine Miller’s “Community-based Traditional Music in Scotland”
Image: the John Wheatley Building and Community College, Haghill, in East End Glasgow, used as the venue for many classes … Read more
Glasgow Pavilion Theatre: Scottish Music Hall heritage at a crossroads
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