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 ...

My arrival in Scotland was delayed by a day due to Storm Éowyn, an extremely powerful “bomb cyclone” that hit Ireland, the ...

The Maxwell Quartet draws fascinating parallels between the music of Joseph Haydn, the father of the string quartet, and Scottish folk music in their latest release, this week’s Feature Album on ...

In spite of apparent differences, folk and folk-inspired music from the roots to the ... Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd release English/Scottish Popular Ballads, the first time many of the songs ...

such as Creative Scotland support music and other creative Scottish industries so that its traditional cultures can be showcased regularly and celebrated globally. Play It!: Explore song elements ...

Don Scoby, Whidbey Islander, post commander of the Scottish American Military Society and avid bagpiper, recently published a ...

English song attributed to King Henry VIII, “Greensleeves,” was sung by a men’s ensemble of Chris Collins, Dwaine Hubbard, ...