Living by the Sword
It is less than two weeks since Creative Scotland made its long-awaited announcement on who would be guaranteed its support for the next three years.
Living by the Sword
Martyn Brabbins and the BBC SSO ended their enlightening survey of Michael Tippett’s symphonies with one that had not seen the light of day since it was written in the 1930s. Tippett created what was effectively...
Living by the Sword
This powerful yet thoughtfully considered performance from the award-winning Dublin singer and bouzouki player Daoiri Farrell delivered seasoned, often traditional repertoire, made fresh with passion, articulation and narrative power ...
Living by the Sword
As for many in the Celtic Connections extended family, it’s been a busy festival for fiddler-about-town Adam Sutherland, already familiar from the line-ups of Croft No.5, Session A9 and the Treacherous Orchestra among other fine folk ensembles.
Living by the Sword
These tiny gold hair rings were likely used to adorn the dead and were discovered at a cave in the north of Scotland where funeral rituals and then killings were carried out over hundreds of years.
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The BBC’s decision to change the angle of its weather map proves that it has been “misrepresenting the land mass of the UK” for years, an SNP MP has claimed.
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IT’S often difficult to appreciate the wholesale changes that have taken place in Edinburgh over the years.
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TODAY marks one hundred years since an act was passed that would give millions of women the right to vote for the first time.
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Drenched in bloody history and blessed with fairytale beauty, Scotland's castles are truly something to behold. Here are ten of the most beautiful and unique stone fortresses to visit around Scotland.
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The chemistry between conductor and orchestra is what makes musical sparks fly. So Clemens Schuldt’s rapport with the SCO would suggest he’s in with a chance to replace outgoing principal conductor Robin Ticciati.
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Arts quango Creative Scotland is to overhaul the way it provides long-term funding after caving in to demands to reverse cuts to five companies.
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Crisis-hit quango Creative Scotland has capitulated to demands to resinstate long-term funding for five companies.
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In a village where people live by tradition, a young woman is restless. She’s not unhappy in her marriage to the local ploughman, Pony William; yet she has this strange need to be always naming and describing things ...
Living by the Sword
Musicians are often envied for their supposedly cushtie lifestyles and timetables – sleeping late; few hours’ work of an evening, in between all the jet-setting and partying – but Friday’s first night of Celtic Connections showpiece Transatlantic Sessions (reprised as ever yesterday...
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Always Ascending may be the fifth album from Alex Kapranos and Co, but as he and Bob Hardy tell Fiona Shepherd, they feel like a new band these days thanks to the creative possibilities opened up by two...
