As the name suggests, the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series ushers music into architectural spaces in relationships that can surprise, delight and perplex. Rarely, though, have sound and site ...

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 ...

Fans of Scottish folk songs are in for a treat, as Jim and Susie Malcolm return to Little Rock for a show Saturday at Hibernia Irish Tavern. The couple, married for 30 years, are both prize-winning ...

As part of a continuing series on the cross currents between traditional music and classical music, Performance Today explores the music of Scotland. Fiddler Alasdair Fraser, pianist Muriel Johnstone ...

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

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 ...

The refrain in Aoife O'Donovan’s “Transatlantic” — “You take the high road and I’ll take the low road/ I’ll get there before you” — is lifted almost verbatim from the old Scottish folk song “Loch ...

New research has revealed Scottish traditional music is surging in popularity, with more than a third of Scots listening it to more often in the past year. A recent survey of 1,000 Scottish adults ...

​Archie Fisher, singer, songwriter and broadcaster. Born: 23 October, 1939, in Glasgow. Died: 1 November, 2025, in Galashiels ...

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 ...