The term “trad music,” short for traditional music, usually describes a type of folk music, though it can apply to other ...

The 48th annual Central Florida Scottish Highland Games comes to Winter Springs Jan. 17-18 to celebrate the sights, sounds ...

Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean scaled the Munro with their bagpipes, accordion and guitar ahead of the Celtic Connections ...

A trio of record-breaking brothers performed a concert on top of Ben Lomond ahead of a festival. Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan ...

A widely shared online post claimed Scottish people have started playing bagpipes during the Muslim call to prayer.

Scotland is often associated with the famous Highland bagpipes - an integral part of Scottish culture. However, a history writer has recently highlighted that the instrument is not truly Scottish and ...

The letter comes amid plans for a radical shake-up of programming with late-night curated music shows to be replaced by ‘mainstream, easy listening’ programmes led by playlists Did you know with a ...

IT’S news likely to get Scots hot under the kilt as a historian claims that bagpipes — one of the nation’s national symbols — are not actually Scottish. Instead, the wailing wind instruments ...

The first recorded Scottish Parliament in 1235 was known as a colloquium, a place of conversation. Its democratic successor in 2025 is too often a place of conformity, as Barton Swaim and Allan Massie ...

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Notting Hill Music has signed a publishing deal with Scottish songwriter Declan Welsh, singer with Declan Welsh And The Decadent West. Emerging from East Kilbride, Welsh and the band have played ...