Folk

To get you in the mood for tonight's Hogmanay festivities, wherever you are, here are twenty versions of Auld…
Formed in 2009, Nordic Fiddlers Bloc have spent the time since developing a unique melding of distinctive…
Some good things have come out of the University of Ulster, as this reviewer can attest from some brief time…
Edinburgh’s Christmas, the capital’s official Christmas programme, is spreading the drama and lights across…
Alasdair Nicolson String Quartet No 3; Kodály String Quartet No 2; Beethoven String Quartet Op 59 No 2 “…
Alasdair Nicolson String Quartet No 3 Slanting Rain with Mairi Campbell and Alasdair Nicolson
Live Act of the Year 2015 Nominees, Nae Plans – top Scottish folk musicians Adam Sutherland and Hamish Napier…
It took Paul Fegan three years to make ‘Where You’re Meant to Be’.
Lack of money should be no obstacle to partaking of the cultural feeding frenzy in Edinburgh in August. Each…
In the midst of uncertainty, something to look forward to and celebrate is as much a necessity as a cause for…
Since the inaugural Lammermuir Festival in 2010, this annual festival of the arts brings together a fortnight…
A new musical by an Edinburgh Writer comes to the stage in June for its world premiere.
The ‘traditional arts’ are often referred to as ‘The Voice of the People’, but what do we mean by ‘the people…
A life’s work that had gone largely unnoticed. Now, 100 years on, it is inspiring audiences across Scotland.
Musical families, top new young talent and a rich mix of cultures feature in the Northern Streams Festival of…
‘home is where we start from’ observes the child psychologist Donald Woods Winnicott, and it was on her own…
On a driech Monday night, with no invitation to a Burns Super in sight, what better than to head to the…
The official 3-day festival over Edinburgh's Hogmanay includes a creative, culture crawl through Edinburgh's…
Moishe’s Bagel’s musicianship has been described as ‘jazz inflected’, although their other influences are…
Scotland’s reputation for being dour and buttoned up may be well and truly shattered at this year’s Fringe…