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Showing posts with label scots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scots. Show all posts
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Bob Dylan and his Scots folk music traditions

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I enjoyed reading the informed article 'The Scottish folk origins of Dylan’s best loved tracks', Ruairdh Mackenzie, Sunday National ...
Friday, 29 November 2024

Scotland is not listened to

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Scotland is not listened to III ….and neither are ordinary voices across the UK  (We need voices of Reform )   I have been told by some – ‘a...
Saturday, 29 June 2024

Scots Voices across the World

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    The Lubeck letter William Wallace, 1297, addressed the Hanseatic ports of Hamburg and Lubeck - that Scotland was open for business again...
Saturday, 10 February 2024

Scots Gaelic Kim Carnie Transatlantic Sessions, Celtic Connections 2024, #ccfest2024,

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  Scots Gaelic singer songwriter, Kim Carnie, lead singer with Manran, performed at the Transatlantic Sessions, Celtic Connections 2024, #cc...
Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Positives for a Free Scotland II

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Recently I’ve had a health issue, and had to have various procedures and scans to access the problem and now another wait. Then a pre-op. As...
Sunday, 31 December 2023

SCOTS TRAD AWARDS 2023

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  Kim Carnie Blazin fiddles 21st st  MG ALBA Scots Trad Music awards Took place at the Dundee Caird hall this November and was presented by ...
Thursday, 30 November 2023

SCOTS Booker Prize winners

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Maggie O’Farrell Alexander McColl Smith Disgracefully as usual in a Time article there is no mention of Scotland’s recent Booker prize winne...
Saturday, 30 September 2023

SONGS make a Nation

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The Proclaimers And the poetry and art. Since the 60s Scots have been singing in their own Scots and Gaelic voices – first with Flower of Sc...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s

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    Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s   Scotland’s greatest political theorist of the modern times.  Tom Nai...
Friday, 28 April 2023

Walter Scott’s fake nationalism and false myths of Scotland

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“pervasive, second-rate sentimentalist, associated with tartan nostalgia.”  For Walter Scott -  “the past is gone, beyond recall.” ….it evok...