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24/09/2020

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31/07/2019

Brilliant line up at Belladrum. Hope weather holds out for them!

🚀It's Official✨

🎇Belladrum 2019 is now SOLD OUT!!!🎆

Can't wait to see you all this August. Watch this space for lots more exciting announcements featuring brand new entertainment for this year plus the return of some firm favourites. ❤️

07/11/2016

I hope sanity and common sense will prevail in America Tuesday!! VOTE CLINTON! As America's first female president!

I fervently hope that it will be Hillary Clinton who is sworn in as 45th President of the United States in January and who returns to the White House, this time not as First Lady but as America’s first female leader.

15/07/2016

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01/09/2014

An excellent 'Night of Music and Words' with radio presenter Vic Galloway - Jura Unbound with Andrew Mitchell of Hazy Janes and Siobhan Wilson Edinburgh book festival 2014 - http://www.musicfootnotes.com/2014/08/vic-galloway-at-jura-unbound-night-of.html

SCOTTISH ARTS & MUSIC BLOG. Music and Portrait Photographer Glasgow since 2007. My journey as an artist through my musicnotes, poetrynotes, songbooks and Photographic art. Celtic Connections, Edinburgh festival, Emerging Artists.

28/08/2014

The Shires. New country sound, like it and love those close harmonies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OwYVg4n1Qk

Download 'Nashville Grey Skies' on iTunes: http://po.st/ngsytd, Amazon: http://po.st/8LQ2lO and Google Play: http://po.st/tYKCi1 Click here for a free downlo...

04/08/2014

The song Freedom Come All Ye was a fitting choice at the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014 opening ceremony as the song speaks of winds of change and sweeping away exploitation and imperialism - and looks to an inclusive and co-operative future.

The song is a product of the 60s Scottish folk revival.
wonderful version here with Dick Gaughan who really understands what the words mean...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nLGKFTH5sw

The third of three songs recorded for this vintage edition of Aly Bain and Friends

28/07/2014

Check out Milngavie Blethers Women For Independence | Independence For Women! Great video with clips from those there saying why they want independence for Scotland! (includes my photos too !) Thanks Debra! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zb9ypNYMZs&feature=youtu.be

All over Scotland folk are meeting together in town halls, social clubs, in the street, at highland games to talk about the independence referendum. This is ...

16/07/2014

The SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) Award is for some of the top innovative new music in Scotland.
The styles range from indie, hip-hop, rock, electronica and flamenco guitar.
http://www.musicfootnotes.com/2014/07/say-award.html

SCOTTISH ARTS & MUSIC BLOG. Music and Portrait Photographer Glasgow since 2007. My journey as an artist through my musicnotes, poetrynotes, songbooks and Photographic art. Celtic Connections, Edinburgh festival, Emerging Artists.

07/06/2014

Loved this band from Austen Texas on Jool Holland last week - 'White Denim' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7glQAiyouA

See more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/later White Denim perform At Night In Dreams on Later... with Jools Holland, BBC Two (20th May 2014)

06/06/2014

Dougie Mclean - new album. Wow, just heard Dougie's song 'Caledonia' with the Scottish National Orchestra on Radio Scotland today. My son chose this song for his first dance, by miles best version I have heard, the orchestra adding that extra depth and richness. Summer 2013 saw Dougie recording an album with the RSNO (Royal Scottish National Orchestra) which will be released on Linn Records in 2014…in time for a special performance with the orchestra in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in June 2014.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/till-tomorrow/id880169463

Preview and download Till Tomorrow on iTunes. See ratings and read customer reviews.

02/06/2014

Worth watching BBC 2s 'Woman and Art ' - Women often found it hard to have their art seen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01y6d4p/the-story-of-women-and-art-episode-3

An exploration of the explosion in creative opportunities for women in the 20th Century. Western women demanded increasing roles in society, pushing art's boundaries even further.

30/05/2014

©Pauline Keightley

30/05/2014

I liked this comment on the power of images, by a journalist too. 'Understanding images. A good picture will always beat words, however beautifully crafted. Deal with it. ' Oh yes.

30/05/2014

Maya was best known for her book ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’, 1969, which brought her international acclaim. She died yesterday May 28 2014 and I was sad to hear of her loss. http://www.musicfootnotes.com/2014/05/maya-angelou-birds-that-fly-from-poverty.html
Her books centre on themes such as racism, identity, family, and travel. Angelou is best known for her autobiographies, but she was also an established poet. She inspired many.

She was a journalist, activist, novelist and poet as well as many other things. I was reading her Wiki page, goodness! She was also a dancer, actress, singer, composer, screen writer, professor, lecturer, traveller and more. Angelou (not her real name) was also a mentor to Oprah Winfrey. In 2011 she received the Presidential medal of honour.

28/05/2014

Rab Noakes and Barbara Dickson Milngavie Folk club May 2014
To my delight Rab performed his well remembered ‘Branch’ which received good radio airplay and that he performed a few years, back now on the Old Grey Whistle Test. I’ve seen Rab live a few times now and this was the first time have heard the song live!

http://www.musicfootnotes.com/2014/05/rab-noakes-and-barbara-dickson.html

SCOTTISH ARTS & MUSIC BLOG. Music and Portrait Photographer Glasgow since 2007. My journey as an artist through my musicnotes, poetrynotes, songbooks and Photographic art. Celtic Connections, Edinburgh festival, Emerging Artists.

28/05/2014

I was at a very wonderful gig Milngavie folk club with Barbara Dickson and Rab Noakes. Their 'Reunited' Ep April 2014 has a raw acoustic live feel, and such good songs. Reminds me a bit of 'Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris' dueting together - http://rabnoakes.bandcamp.com/album/reunited-ep

6 track album

21/05/2014

**The Scottish Enlightenment ** I have been busy researching the 'Scottish Enlightenment' – and there is so much to be proud of with figures such as David Hume and Buchanan. I studied Higher History at school in Edinburgh, where we studied the Tudor and Stuart kings and 17th century European history - and yet I NEVER heard anything of the 'Scottish Enlightenment' until my son studied philosophy here! And of the connections between the Scottish Enlightenment and the American Declaration of Independence. Which seriously makes me question we do not learn of the great thinkers, creators or inventors?
http://www.musicfootnotes.com/2014/05/the-scottish-enlightenment.html

SCOTTISH ARTS & MUSIC BLOG. Music and Portrait Photographer Glasgow since 2007. FINDING THE ARTIST IN US. My journey as an artist through my musicnotes, poetrynotes, songbooks and Photographic art. Celtic Connections, Edinburgh festival, Emerging Artists.

20/05/2014

One of my favourite singers Cara Dillon has a NEW album out 'A Thousand Hearts'. Yes! - http://www.caradillon.co.uk/albums/thousand-hearts

My Cara Dillon photos - http://pkimage.co.uk/p22890860

14/05/2014

Check on Jon Allen's song Night and Day, just heard him on the radio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q1-r6VHdWg

12/05/2014

'A Heart Needs Home' with Linda Thompson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqViJyweNV0

I know the way That I feel about you Im never going to run away Im never going to run away Never knew the way When I lived without you Im never going to run ...

12/05/2014

One of my favourite songwriters and guitarists is Richard Thomspon, who started out with the wonderful folk rock band Fairport Convention. Love his 'Heart Needs a home', 'Persuasion', 'Walking on the Wire' and more...

http://www.musicfootnotes.com/2014/05/richard-thompsons-colourful-songs.html

SCOTTISH ARTS & MUSIC BLOG. Music and Portrait Photographer Glasgow since 2007. FINDING THE ARTIST IN US. My journey as an artist through my musicnotes, poetrynotes, songbooks and Photographic art. Celtic Connections, Edinburgh festival, Emerging Artists.

09/05/2014

Scottish Song......
For a new anthem for Scotland my votes on the tune Highland Cathedral with new words - 'The Highlands Call on eagles wings...' This tune is stirring and uplifting ....and nothing much beats the pipes, but adding the strings of the orchestra makes it easier to sing to.

I went in search of a good version on YouTube. Lloved this version with the orchestra adding that extra depth - oh wish they might play this at the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014 ( and not Flower of Scotland!) Check it here -
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1LAYRXDOVM&list=RDljnPX4okNMY&index=0

I agree with many that Flower of Scotland now sounds out-dated and even slightly bitter. We need a forward looking more positive and inspired song. This is not about sending the English homeward - its about an inclusive and confident way forward for all who wish to live in Scotland. When I lived aboard I did used to think of the pipes and the Highlands and those damp misty mornings.

Where the highlands call home for me on eagles’ wings/ And where heathers always bloom/ I will always be true/ To the highlands that are calling home for me.

http://www.musikschauschottland.de Highland Cathedral by the Massed & Castle Band of the Music Show Scotland / Musikschau Schottland live @ Campushalle in Fl...