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New Year singalang

Don't remember all the words to Auld Lang Syne? Don't worry - they're all here along with the words and tune to a Guid New Year tae Ane an Aa. You'll have no excuse for not joining in the...

Doric Cabaret Evening

As pairt o the city o Aiberdeen’s St Andra’s Weekend, the Associe o Grampian Storytellers is haein a Doric Cabaret Eening on Seturday 1 December at Union Terrace Gairdens, Aiberdeen, fae 7.30pm...

Broken Gong

Fifer Andy Chung’s latest album, Broken Gong, contains all the voices that make up one of Scotland’s most unusual and distinctive singers. Kirkcaldy born Chung comes from a musical family with a...

Night of traditional song in Scots

The Aberdeen and Regional Oral History Association will be holding a traditional concert party on the night of Saturday 26 April. On the night there will be a series of traditional songs in Scots,...

American accents for Scottish Rappers

Two Scottish rappers had to speak in American accents in order to get a music deal, the Sunday Mail reported this week. Dundee guys Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain – known as Silibil’n’Brains –...

The Scottish Song Tradition

The old style ballad (before 1700) The leading and oldest kind of song in Scots is the historical ballad. The ballad was composed for two kinds of audience: the ordinary people or the courtly...

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Ach weil, it's ainlie a gemme, an gin onie o ye need cheerin up, this video ne'er fails tae dae it fer me.  It's in Norrowegian, but I dout the feck o ye ken fine weil whit's gaein on nae bother- http://youtube.com/watch?v=PqZTP8-8wIs


Spaekin o Norrowegian, the Lumsk album I ordered about thrie week syne cam in the day.  Braw's no the hauf o't!  The album's cried ''Troll'' an is a guid mixtur-maxtur o tradeitional fowk an slawish doomy metal, wi the leirics taen frae Norrowegian fowklair.  It maks a nice chynge frae sae cried "Viking" metal baunds bangin on an on anent Thor an the gang aw the time as tho Norse cultur haes naething else tae lilt about.  It's no sae heivy as thier first album, sae non metal-heids micht fin it warth a listen.   The haill thing's in Norrowegian, sae there's aye the auld gemme o "Spot the Cognate" tae play an aw.

Sang o the week - "Dunker" frae the album abuin.  As a wee thocht, is it no orra jist hou glaikit fowk in fowk-tales can be?  Whit wey maun they aye be lattin on their names whan they ken richt weil this'll dae thaim skaith?  Aiblins trowes, gyans an the lave is needin tae lay aff the mead.


God bless - an be back fer mair blethers neist week.


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Fitbaw: whit a scunner + Norrowegian fowkies an glaikit trowes

I dinna ken hou monie o ye haes been watchin the fitbaw frae Austrick an Swisserland ower the hinmaist week or twa, but I maun say - sum o it's been pretty guid. Whan ye see hou kintras like...

A braw nicht, thanks tae the SLC

Hello aw, howp ye hae been makkin the maist o wit braw simmer...or the twa-thrie braw hours we hae been gettin. Michael wis sayin this wad be the year fer a bonnie simmer - but sae faur it's...

Shetland resources

Maria Barclay Millar has produced a CD of Shetland songs all sung in the Shetland dialect, 'Evergreen, Dialect Sangs for Schools'. As a singing teacher, Maria felt there was a need for audio...

Flittin, Nae Mince etc.

Weil, I'm back on bloggin efter a wee whilie awa. Jist flittit twa week syne, sae aye trying tae redd out a nummer o fankles that's no richt just yet. It's guid tae see thon veidio "Nae...

Traditional Arts Working Group - Public Meetings

David Francis, the chair of the Traditional Arts Working Group, will be hosting a series of public meetings across Scotland to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to feed their views...

The Bleacher Lassie o Kelvinhaugh

This month's song from TMSA  is The Bleacher Lassie o Kelvinhaugh. Its about the practice of laying clothes and sheets out in the sun to bleach them. At the time of the song the Kelvinhaugh area...

SLS Annual Collogue

The Annual Collogue of the Scots Language Society will take place on Saturday 10 October 2009 at the A.K. Bell Library, York Place, Perth. This year’s theme is ‘The Interaction between Scots and...

Launch of 'For A' That'

The launch of a new book entitled 'For A' That' will take place at the Dundee Rep Theatre at 7pm. The University of Dundee has commissioned various wriers to put together an anthology celebrating...

Annual Collogue of Scots Language Society

The Annual Collogue of the Scots Language Society will take place on Saturday 10 October 2009 at the A.K. Bell Library, York Place, Perth. This year’s theme is ‘The Interaction between Scots and...

Doric Sampler

The 16th Doric Sampler from the Monymusk Arts Trust will be at 7pm. For more information enquire with The Arts Trust at www.artstrust.org

Old Songs with Scots Words

Monymusk Arts Trust presents Irene Drummond (soprano) and Alasdair Beatson (piano) performing songs with words by Scots poets. Monymusk Arts Centre, near Inverurie. Doors opem 3pm, tickets cost £8...

Lori Watson

A musician from the Borders, Lori Watson has several online sites with information about the music of the Borders. Follow these links to find out...

Merrier Christmas and Brawer Hogmanay at SLC

With December only weeks away, the Scots Language Centre is putting the finishing touches to what should be its best ever Christmas and New Year programme. There are many old favourites – the...

Drunk Man set to music

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Hugh MacDiarmid’s Scots poem, with its infamously thrawn narrator, is set to music of huge imagination and vibrancy by Glasgow composer Bill Sweeney  in a...

An app’s an app for a’ that

Ahead of this year's Burns night, the Scottish Government has released a Burns app for the iPhone. As well as including more than 550 of the Bard's poems and love songs, the app gives users a...

Two new CDs

Two new CD releases show Scots language being used by young professional musicians today. Singers Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller's new album is called Shadows Tall, while the Paul McKenna Band...

Written Questions on Scottish Culture

This page collects written questions on Scottish culture that are not directly related to Scots language but may have a bearing on it. S4W-01514 Patricia Ferguson: To ask the Scottish Executive...