February 2012. My (independent) music and arts blog reached 10,000 hits this week! I’m very grateful for all who’ve come over and enjoyed reading my posts. An especially big hello to those from Russia, America and other far away places who also love music. I hope you enjoy Scottish music too! My passion is for good music that motivates my writing and photography. It is the music that makes me want to travel miles and spend hours processing photos. The Music that inspires ….
I grew up in Edinburgh and now live north of Glasgow (as well as living ten years in the States) - which I hope gives me unique perspectives. I started my Blog in 2007 with a few music reviews and in 2011 I started to take my music and arts blog here more seriously.
I am a blogger, writer, and photographer. I have followed music for many decades and my three grown up children they help to keep me in touch with younger views.
I attend Celtic Connections Glasgow each January and Edinburgh Book festival in August, as my two main events. The rest of the year my main interest is in new artists coming up, plus the more established ones too.
* Celtic Connections Glasgow is a top quality festival that produces some outstanding musical collaborations - that includes - Jerry Douglas, Aly Bain, Dick Gaughan, Rab Noakes, Eddi Reader and many more artists worldwide.
* Edinburgh Book festival is such a unique experience to photo all those respected writers, poets, journalists, politicians, novelists and more.
* Photos and promotions for Scottish singer songwriter *Emeli Sande since 2007 and it's been huge thrill and honour to see all her successes in 2012 with her wonderful debut album Our Version of Events! I took photos at her Royal Albert hall concert and it was a big honour to be there.
*I also take photos of the quality musicians at Milngavie Folk club - while 'folk music' at times needs to shake itself up? Still tradition and heritage matter so much.
The past year my main focus has been my writing work (some on my blogs) for which I hope my book may be evolving… I live with my dreams and hopes…
My photography site - http://pkimage.co.uk/
And many thanks to those who have encouraged my work and believed in me.
