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Caledonia singer will headline Boat Festival

Renowned Scottish singer songwriter Dougie MacLean is to headline this year's Scottish Traditional Boat Festival. Dougie, famed for the song Caledonia, is set to travel...
Skipinnish, one of Scotland's leading traditional music bands

Just over a week to go until Argyll music festival

Argyll’s biggest open-air live music event is set to take place next weekend. OBANLIVE, taking place on 8 and 9 June, has launched two new...

Band pays tribute to Scots Manchester attack victim

Skipinnish has released a charity single in memory of Manchester attack victim, Eilidh MacLeod. One year on from the attack at Manchester Arena, the Scottish...

Scots fiddler and Austrian piper produce a sumptuous nugget

The Pipe Slang is a translation from the Gaelic song Feadan glan a' phiobair, a tune of which Simon Fraser comments in the appendix to...

A lifetime of events brought together in one album

This Has Been Me Since Yesterday is the culmination of a lifetime’s song writing for Glaswegian, Alex Weir and with more accessible recording technology now...

Former Mercury Prize nominees set to play in Scotland

Former Mercury Prize nominees the Portico Quartet will head to Edinburgh next month. The group will play at the Summerhall this summer, on 20 June. Portico...


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