A few years ago, Katie Gregson-MacLeod left her home city of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands to go to uni in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. But after completing three years of a four-year ...

A BRAND new festival titled Heather on the Hill is being launched in Edinburgh. The “family-focused” event will take place at ...

, has died at the age of 63, following a long illness. Those who aren't well-versed in older folk music would most likely know Rafferty for his song "Stuck in the Middle With You," which made an ...

The music from major new Scottish folk musical Ballad Lines will be released as an ambitious 18 track concept album on 12th September, bringing together leading female folk and theatre artists from ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

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 ...