Along with dancing, telling stories and reciting poetry, song singing is a key part of traditional céilidhs. Songs known as mouth music (puirt-a-beul) provided accompaniment for the dancing of ...

Reel-to-reel recordings are among the material involved in the project Rare recordings of Scottish traditional music made in Aberdeenshire dating back to the 1940s are being preserved as part of a ...

Robert Burns is the author of many famous Scottish poems written in the late 1700s. Burns' work includes Auld Lang Syne, which was later set to traditional folk music and is now sung at New Year ...

MacLean, who is now 63, grew up in the village of Butterstone near Dunkeld in Perthshire and started playing fiddle with traditional Scottish music band the Tannahill Weavers before going solo.

CUMBERLAND – Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., will present the Scottish band Breabach on Sunday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m.

The opening two events of this year’s Cumnock Tryst were a potent symbol of its continuing success, writes Ken Walton ...

Inverness will play host to the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards for the first time in a decade this autumn, it has been ...

Of the ten albums up for the top prize, only one will walk away with £20,000 when this year’s ceremony takes place at Stirling’s Albert Halls.

Award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo Janice Burns and Jon Doran will be lighting up the Evesham area with two gigs in October and ...

featuring tracks including ‘Blackbird’, ‘Chanter’ and ‘Move’, where Martyn expertly blended Scottish traditional music and singers with cutting edge electronica and dance beats.

2024’s Artist in Residence is Karine Polwart, a Scottish singer-songwriter at the forefront of the nation’s folk music scene. Polwart will kick off the year’s season over the weekend.

The venues full of traditional live Scottish music every night of the week Every night of the week, the walls of the Royal Oak bar reverberate to the sound of live music, most of it with a ...