Jimmie MacGregor brought his 50-plus years of performing experience to bear lightly on this informal two-hour saunter through his back pages, reflecting the diversity of his career with songs, jokes, ...
The 2011 Perthshire Amber Festival (28 October to 6 November), headed up by Scots singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean, has announced its line-up for Autumn this year. It includes rising star Emily ...
Jimmie MacGregor celebrated his 80th birthday last year and was surprised to get a phone call from a former neighbour in London who tracked him down to the pub where ...
“Folk music,” legendary trade unionist Jimmy Reid once said, “has no meaning unless it expresses the lives and struggles of ordinary people. In 1971, when the shipyard workers on upper ...
Big thanks to Stephen Bailey (left, @whichwayII) for tweeting this photo of me at a concert in the Liverpool Philharmonic marking 50 years of Jacqui & Bridie’s Folk Club. Which ...
If cultural deputations from selected potential markets for Scottish traditional music were ever to be invited to the Scots Trad Music Awards, they would be presented with a high quality ...