Posts by Kenny Smith
Pupil shortlisted for UK Young Drummer of the Year
Strathallan student Lewis Dewar has been shortlisted to the Top 40 for the UK Young Drummer of the Year competition. The 17-year-old from Fife said he was speechless when he found out he had made the Top 40 in such a prestigious competition. Young Drummer of the Year 2022, which has celebrated rising talent for…
Read MoreCelebrating 200 Years of the Royal Highland Show
Tickets are being released for next year’s Royal Highland Show – marking the 200th anniversary of the much-anticipated event. Organisers have announced they will release a limited number of discounted early-bird tickets from Friday, December 3 – just in time for the festive giving season! Show exhibitors and visitors will be welcomed through the gates…
Read MoreStAnza festival returns with exciting new format
StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, has revealed headline names for the 2022 festival, including Scots Makar, Kathleen Jamie. Big names are due to perform at the 2022 festival as organisers prepare for a return to live performance, post-Covid. The annual event will be back in St Andrews next March with ambitious plans for a hybrid…
Read MoreEden Mill launches single malt whisky on St Andrew’s Day
Award-winning distillers Eden Mill have unveiled an exclusive limited-edition 800 bottles of its 2021 Release Single Malt Scotch in time for St Andrew’s Day. Retailing at £85, the small batch 2021 release is crafted by a perfect marriage of first-fill bourbon casks and ex-oloroso sherry casks, incorporating spirit distilled using pale malted barley. The 2021…
Read MoreAn insightful look at ravens – in art and legend
Crows, ravens, rooks and magpies – all birds that tend to get a hard time in myths and stories over the years. They usually tend to be associated as harbingers of doom and oncoming death – there’s no denying that these birds, corvids, play a large role in the human imagination. We keep ravens in…
Read MoreA Scots liquer with a difference – rhubarb and heather
Isle of Barra Distillers has announced the launch of the 2021 Rhubarb and Heather Liqueur limited edition. This is a released created close to the hearts of the community -the rhubarb is sourced from a local charitable organisation on the island, Garadh a’ Bhagh a’ Tuath. Garadh a’ Bhagh a’ Tuath runs a community garden…
Read MoreGood food taught the easy way at Cook School Scotland
During the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, I’m sure that most of us learned – or tried to learn – new skills. For me, I discovered how much fun it was creating podcasts, hence the arrival of Scottish Field’s weekly offering since March this year, as well as three others I do in my own…
Read MoreA playlist that changes as you drink your dram
The world’s first taste altering musical playlist has been created to mark the launch of a new whisky from Black Bottle. Produced in a collaboration between leading experimental psychologist Oxford Professor, Charles Spence and Black Bottle’s master distiller, Brendan McCarron, the tracks are specifically created to alter and heighten sensory perceptions when drinking whisky. Using…
Read MoreThe Balmoral makes it a special Christmas with Hamleys
The Balmoral has partnered with Hamleys, the finest toy shop in the world, to bring joy and magic to families this festive season. Hamley Bear checked in to the iconic Rocco Forte hotel to deliver a special present under the hotel’s much loved twinkling Christmas tree, signalling the beginning of the festive season at The…
Read MoreStorm chase yields 66 copies of rare George Mackay Brown book
A joint appeal by BBC Radio Orkney and the George Mackay Brown Fellowship – to mark the centenary of the Orcadian writer’s birth this year – has found 66 copies of his first published collection of verse, The Storm and Other Poems. The story of the discovery of the books has been told in an…
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