Shay O'Dowd won Breakthrough Artist at the Scottish Music Awards - the same prize won by his songwriting heroes.

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 ...

The letter comes amid plans for a radical shake-up of programming with late-night curated music shows to be replaced by ...

The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) is bringing back its annual conference with the SMIA Summit 2025. The two-day event is taking place at The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow on Thursday, ...

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Justin Currie, Jacob Alon, Kathryn Joseph, Eddi Reader and Hamish Hawk hit out as members of, Glasvegas and Idlewild back ...

To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, I was reminded of this oft-quoted Robert Burns verse while recently reading an article by Reiner Luyken, who has spent most of his ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — When Rachel Clemente moved to Brattleboro in 2019, she hoped that she’d find someone who could make a small, Scottish harp, a clàrsach, ...

I recently returned from Edinburgh, Scotland, where I had never been before despite my Scottish roots. My father’s ancestors were Ferguson clan from Perthshire. They came to America in the late 1700s, ...

The Scottish Society of the Inland Empire will hold its third annual Apple and Thistle Music Festival at Snowline Orchard in Oak Glen on Sept. 13. The free event features a day of Scottish music and ...

The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) has appointed five new non-executive directors to its company board, following a public recruitment process earlier this year. “The appointments mark a ...