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They looked a little bemused, as anyone would, when I invited them into a café filled with ex-addicts... I’m generalising but it was clear that keeping the attention span of this audience was going to be a tough task.
Frank Burkitt
As the good weather was trying to return, as it always does in September, I found myself northbound on a Scotrail locomotive to Inverness. It is always nice to return to my home parts, but this was not just a family visit. My father has for a couple of years now been the driving force of a charity which he founded, called ‘For the right reasons’. This charity chiefly deals with the problem of addiction, predominantly Heroin and Alcohol addiction. Write comment (0 Comments)
Gaelic signs in Edinburgh might seem a bit silly to some, but strangely, they could be one of the most important contributions to the Gaelic cause in a long time.
Jack Foster
Edinburgh's local tabloid rag 'The Evening News' has never been renowned for a high standard in journalistic integrity, and their leading story of Tuesday 3rd November proved no exception to the rule. Splashed across the front cover was a glibly self righteous attack on plans to introduce bilingual Gaelic signs to Scotland's capital city. The paper, (known locally as the "Evening Snooze") argued that "the language is spoken by a mere 56,000 of the population" and is "one of the SNP's pet projects", and makes no attempt to disguise its combined...
A Rough Guide to the Etiquette of the Scottish Socialist Session
Tom Harland
Since late July I have been fortunate enough to be involved in the organizing and running of a small session in a pub called Scotts on the West end of Rose Street in Edinburgh. The session happened on me by chance, as my partner was passing the bar and noticed a sign in the window stating "Traditional Musicians Wanted". Following the briefest of "interviews" I was promised £30 per session along with a free drink for each of the musicians. Write comment (7 Comments) 12-11-09 19:43 Since the session's inception leadership has...
Clubhouse:
Doing five weeks in a row, you get a sense of an ongoing narrative, songs seem to correspond, a conversation seems to unfold. It’s a ‘summer school’ alright.
Eberhard "Paddy" Bort
Another summer gone, another Festival over, another 37 nights spent in the company of folk musicians and local as well as international audiences in the downstairs lounge of the Royal Oak. It always looks like a Ben Nevis to climb at the start – five weeks and a day. Phew. And then it flies by just like that nightly fly pass of the Tattoo…. Yes, it has its disadvantages to be stuck at the Oak for an entire summer, but most of it, oddly enough, is fun. Hey, I get to hear...
The Wee Bit On The Side:
WHAT IS FOUND THERE: FOLK MUSIC, FASCISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
Karine Polwart
For someone who fell in love with folk music because it seemed (to me) to speak across time and place to some kind of universal human condition, it's more than a wee bit depressing and infuriating to find BNP leader and recently elected MEP for North West England, Nick Griffin, professing his love of the genre (he's a massive Kate Rusby fan). The party's recent attempts to co-opt folk music as one of their chief soundtracks have enraged many of the musicians whose recordings have been licensed for compilations currently on sale...
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