Roots music
Northern Streams Festival of Nordic & Scottish Music, Song & Dance 18-20 April 2025
Musical families, top new young talent and a rich mix of cultures feature in the Northern Streams …
The opening and closing events of the Edinburgh Internat
‘Made in Hong Kong, assembled in Fife’ is how musician Andy Chung describes his background. James Connolly,…
A Burns Supper in August may seem a daft idea, but that's the essence of The Robert Burns Experience held in…
This reviewer’s previous incarnation as the Stravaigin Reporter for the organisation Scots Tung, has allowed…
Patrias evokes the aesthetic spirit of Lorca’s duende, creating a stirring glimpse of the Spanish Civil War…
Ravi Shankar has spent decades crossing boundaries, both geographical and musical, whilst remaining among the…
It might be said that when traditional folk music is taken up by well known composers the outcome is art…
I met a friend at the bus stop on the way to see Shooglenifty on Friday night.
The theme of this year's Edinburgh International Festival is of people crossing borders, assimilating into…
The Queen's Hall may seem like an unlikely venue to get hot and sweaty in, but on a very dreich and damp…
At only 19 years old, Rachel Sermanni has supported Mumford and Sons, KT Tunstall and Newton Falkner, and is…
Elsa Jean returns to the Fringe with a wonderful collection of folk music to launch her new album, Lassie…
This is not so much a show as an experience, immensely enjoyable and a spectacular outpouring of dancing and…
The small Back Room at St Brides was the venue for the three-strong Edinburgh women’s a-cappella group,…
This round-up of some of the musical acts playing at the Fringe opened with an absolute bang courtesy of…
It’s not often you get a full gospel choir on stage at the Traverse, but there is one as ‘The Christians’…
At any other time of the year it would have looked an odd sight - a snake of folk in Thistle Street carrying…
Performer and musicologist Jordi Savall has almost ten years on this reviewer.