Posts Tagged ‘Gaelic’
Scottish New Writers Award recipients revealed
The Scottish Book Trust has announced the 13 recipients of the New Writers Award, which is supported by Creative Scotland. Since 2009 Scottish Book Trust, the national charity transforming lives through reading and writing, has supported over 100 creative individuals through the New Writers Awards. The New Writers Awards, which celebrated its tenth anniversary last…
Read MoreA round up of whiskies and glasses for Burns Night
Burns Night is just 10 days away, when people all over the world will be raising a glass to the Bard. Of course, you can’t have a Burns Night celebration without a dram, so Scottish Field has rounded up some whiskies and glassware that are available to mark the occasion. A luxury dram to toast…
Read MoreRoyal Celtic Society members marked 200th birthday
An almost like-for-like gathering of 20 members marked 200 years to the week of the foundation of the Royal Celtic Society. The members gathered on the very spot in Edinburgh where it was founded on Friday 7 January 1820. The 2020 location was the Café Royal, sited where the foundation lunch occurred, and unlike the…
Read MoreThe life of a young crofter on the Isle of Lewis
TV viewers will be able to discover more about the life of a Scottish crofter, through a new TV series. An Lot/The Croft returns to Gaelic language channel BBC Alba tonight, Monday 6 January, from 8.30-9pm, for a new five-episode series. An Lot/The Croft sees viewers catch up with young crofter Donald ‘Sweeny’ MacSween on…
Read MoreThe life and times of Runrig’s Donnie Munro
Donnie Munro toured the world with his band Runrig but these days there is nowhere he’d rather be than home on Skye. I was born in Uig on the north-west side of Skye, just like everyone else on the island who happened to be born before 1966. That was when a maternity hospital was built…
Read MorePostcards from the edge – the life of George Robertson
An idyllic childhood on Islay gave George Robertson the best start in life – and keeps him coming back to his island refuge. Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen is one of the 16 Knights of the Thistle, Scotland’s oldest and highest order of chivalry whose members are personally chosen by the Queen. A…
Read MoreGet ready to see in the New Year from the comfort of home
BBC Scotland has an extended Hogmanay offering of music, chat and entertainment plus celebrations from around the country as the country counts down to 2020. With the surprise retiral of Jackie Bird from BBC Scotland earlier this year, comic Susan Calman fronts the Hogmanay festivities on television this year in an extended offering, including a…
Read MoreBBC Scotland reveals its Christmas presents
BBC Scotland have taken the wraps off their selection of seasonal goodies to entertain audiences throughout the festivities. The line-up this year includes an extended Hogmanay offering of music, chat and entertainment plus celebrations from around the country as Scotland counts down to 2020. Inside Central Station at Christmas on the BBC Scotland channel on…
Read MoreBlas Festival 2019 was another big success
Organisers of this year’s Blas Festival have reported another successful event, with Highland audiences being entertained by some of the country’s top musicians, for the 15th year. And they are already looking forward to what 2020 has in store for the Gaelic festival. Blas, which means ‘taste’ or ‘sample’, is organised by Fèisean nan Gàidheal…
Read MoreWINNERS OF SCOTS TRAD MUSIC AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Kilts swinging, fiddles blazing and the skirl of the pipes booming loudly – there’s nothing that sets the heart alight quite like an evening of traditional Scottish music. Celebrating the best trad talent in the country was the annual MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, and in between some exceptional toe-tapping performances, the 2019 winners…
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