Scottish Culture Online

New website! Visit us at http://www.youngtrad.co.uk. This is an Award that exists to encourage young musicians to keep their tradition alive and [...]

Since its foundation in 1966, The Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland has helped to foster and promote Scotland’s [...]

The Edinburgh Folk Club is a friendly well-run club which meets 8pm Wednesday evenings (for most of the year) at [...]

Buddy MacMaster is a household name in the world of fiddle music. He has performed at hundreds of concerts and [...]

A West Lothian based acapella three woman group, Liz Reid, Susan Thores and Heather Wilkinson.

BBC Alba is a digital TV channel broadcasting Gaelic programmes daily. Since its inception in September 2008, BBC ALBA has [...]

Founded in 1973, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig has become internationally recognised as a National Centre for the Gaelic language and culture. [...]

VOTE NOW in the 2012 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards! The Scots Trad Music Awards is an annual event that [...]

Songwriter and singer, his best known political songs include ‘Hawks And Eagles Fly Like Doves’ and ‘Some Hae Meat’. He [...]

The duo George Gunn and Bob Macaulay perform in anarchic style their own idiosyncratic highly literate lyrics set to a [...]

A classically trained pianist, composer and teacher. He has played keyboard and accordion with a remarkable number of Scottish traditional [...]

The Tannahill Weavers are one of Scotland’s premier traditional bands. Their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fire-driven instrumentals, topical [...]

A co-operative group of Glasgow singers and musicians. The members included Adam McNaughtan and Ann Neilson. The group developed and [...]

A well-to-do farmer at the Aberdeenshire Farm of Crichie near Fyvie who had a wonderful fund of old ballads and [...]

Now best-known of the Stewarts of Blair, Sheila Stewart is one of Scotland’s traditional Traveller storytellers, and ballad singers and [...]

A family of travellers who were based in Blairgowrie but performed far and wide. They were much recorded and written [...]

Elizabeth Stewart, from Mintlaw, is one of Scotland ’s foremost ballad singers, who learnt her art from her family, especially [...]

A key source singer for the Revival who sang ballad and bothy ballads with almost operatic intensity, traveller Stewart, nicknamed [...]

Matriarch of The Stewarts Of Blair, singer and songmaker. Her best-known song was ‘The Berryfields Of Blair’. It is generally [...]

Close harmony a capella group of women singers from the lowlands of Scotland featuring Eileen Penman, Claire Lamond, Sylvia McGowan, [...]