New research has revealed Scottish traditional music is surging in popularity, with more than a third of Scots listening it to more often in the past year. A recent survey of 1,000 Scottish adults ...

Legendary Scottish band The Tannahill Weavers is set to perform at Cà d’Zan House Concerts in Cambridge. According to a release, you can experience traditional Scottish band The Tannahill Weavers for ...

A remarkable compilation of compositions by Ayrshire musician, composer and co-founder of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, John M. Mason MBE, is being gifted to people all over the world to inspire ...

Aberdeenshire harpist player Rachel Groves has been named the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician for 2026. Rachel, who leads the Scolty Harp Ensemble in the north-east of Scotland and ...

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

As part of a continuing series on the cross currents between traditional music and classical music, Performance Today explores the music of Scotland. Fiddler Alasdair Fraser, pianist Muriel Johnstone ...

Over a pint of Guinness at a pub in Edinburgh, Scotland, or at a rugby match in Belfast, Northern Ireland - these are the places you might find a bunch of guys conspiring to form a Celtic battle-music ...

There’s something about live music that instantly connects people, but when it’s rooted in tradition, it tells a story that spans generations. That’s exactly what you’ll hear from the San Francisco ...

ON A street of soot-stained sandstone, tucked behind Scotland’s National Museum, a door is thrown open and then pulled shut against the cold. A snatch of sound—chatter, strings and the strum of a ...

She was part of a musical family of Scottish Travellers that furthered the nation’s folk revival and influenced its American counterpart. By Neil Genzlinger Elizabeth Stewart, a folk singer, pianist ...