Cannons, fireworks, trumpets, and drums – with the whole orchestra to play with, classical music is the perfect accompaniment ...

The music from major new Scottish folk musical Ballad Lines will be released as an ambitious 18 track concept album on 12th September, bringing together leading female folk and theatre artists from ...

ON A street of soot-stained sandstone, tucked behind Scotland’s National Museum, a door is thrown open and then pulled shut against the cold. A snatch of sound—chatter, strings and the strum of a ...

A few years ago, Katie Gregson-MacLeod left her home city of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands to go to uni in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. But after completing three years of a four-year ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

The Scottish folk and jazz scenes are thriving, reflected in a packed calendar of events for 2026, writes Jim Gilchrist ...

Editor’s note: The Maxwell Quartet performance at Waukegan High School’s Orlin Trap Auditorium on March 14 has been canceled. Good things do come to those who wait. Take Maxwell Quartet, for example. ...

Fiddle player Laura Jane Wilkie feels a responsibility to talk about issues in her industry to help other women A Scottish folk music musician has told BBC News that she is scared to speak out about ...

Stephen McAll of folk group Constant Follower says that human-led creative projects could be “drowned out” by AI-generated music if safeguards are not developed. The call comes as the Scottish Music ...

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