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The Duke of Wellington Statue Capped by a Cone in Glasgow, Scotland
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 12 February 2012
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel quotes.
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Celtic Connections 2012: the music continues
Blog: Music Road - 31 January 2012
Celtic Connections, in Glasgow, Scotland, is one of Europe’s and the world’s premiere winter festivals, bringing hundreds of artists for sharing of tune and song, in venues ranging from a rock club to a cathedral, from a quiet song session in a concert of the concert hall building to a grand performance onthat same buildnig’s main stage. As the music continues, here’s a bit of what all that looks like
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Celtic Connections 2012: the music begins
Blog: Music Road - 21 January 2012
January. Glasgow. Celtic Connections.Celtic Connection's is Europe's premiere winer festival, and one of the top music festivals across the world. Both the Celtic side of things, with artists from all across Scotland, from ireland, the United States, Canada, and elsehwere in the Celtic world come to share their music, as do musicians from other traditions.Celtic Connections 2012. The music begins...
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music and late autumn
Blog: Music Road - 18 November 2011
Miracles are everywhere. So is music. So is friendship. This is a time of year to invite and be open to and to celebrate all these things.
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Scotland Part One
Blog: Green Point Greenie - 27 October 2011
Scottish heritage shop Scotland is to England like chalk is to cheese. If you plan to give Scotland as miss because you have been to England, think again.
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Glasgow’s Riverside Museum of Transport
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 27 July 2011
The recently opened Riverside Museum in Glasgow is the UK’s newest and most exciting visitor attraction. Located on the banks of the River Clyde, the world-class Riverside Museum is a marvel of design and engineering. Moored outside is the 19th-century sailing ship Glenlee, creating an iconic destination that explores Scotland’s histories and embraces its future. [...]
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kelvingrove cat, and music
Blog: Music Road - 8 July 2011
this cat was quietly contemplating the west gate at Kelvingrove park of an evening as I was on my way to a talk at the University of Glasgow...
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Art as it Exists in Time at the British Art Show 7 in Glasgow
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 7 June 2011
Held once every five years, the British Art Show is recognized by many as the most influential and ambitious exhibition of contemporary British art. British Art Show 7 (BAS7) has just arrived in Glasgow and features the work of 39 of the most exciting artists in the UK today. Subtitled “In the Days of the [...]
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Scottish music a different way: The Unusual Suspects
Blog: Music Road - 14 April 2011
The Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow offers both welcome and whimsy, and a sense of connection with history, as well. The arc of the Victorian ceiling and the ironmongery and grocer’s signs from the days when the building was the city’s produce market remain, in what is now a venue whose atmosphere is infused with music.
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Scottish Musicians look at the Future of Our Past
Blog: Music Road - 1 April 2011
In folk music of any country, there often arises the question of how do we pass this on? right alongside the question of how do we make this new? and how do we add our own stamp to it? how do we do that while respecting and sharing the best of what’s gone before? There are as many answers to these questions as there are musicians, of course. Listeners often weight in too, some wanting only exact replicas of what they’ve heard before, others wanting only fusion, and others willing to hear what the musicians my have in mind.
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Celtic Connections 2011: seeing music
Blog: Music Road - 3 March 2011
Celtic Connections, held in January of each year in Glasgow, Scotland, is one of the world's premiere Celtic music festivals.
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from Donegal: T with the Maggies
Blog: Music Road - 13 February 2011
Donegal is in the far northwest of Ireland, a land of sea and mountain, much of it a place where Irish is spoken as often as English, all of it a place where music is respected and loved. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, and Moya Brennan all spent time growing up in Donegal, and knew each other in those days. Each has made a top notch career in music, through work with bands, groups, and as solo artists.
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Celtic Connections 2011: images
Blog: Music Road - 4 February 2011
Stories with words will come fromCeltic Connections this year...here are stories told through images.
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Scott-Land at Celtic Connections
Blog: Music Road - 3 February 2011
Ivanhoe, Lady of the Lake, Rob Roy, The Bride of Lammermoor -- even if you’ve never read any of these, they have very likely influenced your view of Scotland and its history. Sir Walter Scott wrote all of them. His cinematic descriptions of Scottish landscapes have caused him to be called Scotland’s first travel writer. His novels, poems and plays were wildly popular when they were written in the early nineteenth century -- at one point during that time his novels were said to be the most read books in the United States.
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harps and Celtic Connections
Blog: Music Road - 28 January 2011
The harp takes on many roles in Celtic music -- and other sorts of music too, of course. It may be by turns percussive or melodic, leading the song or following a singer. Though the harp has a lot of ethereal connotations, in practice it is a powerful, and powerfully used, instrument.Below, three harp situations at the Celtic Connections in Glasgow where that was true: the musicians are Mary Ann Kennedy, Moya Brennan, and Siobhan Armstrong.
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Celtic Connections coming up
Blog: Music Road - 7 January 2011
The haunting sound of bagpipes, the flickering light of torches, and the anticipation and joy of the people: all of these will form part of the evening as Celtic Connections begins its eighteenth year of bringing music to the heart of Glasgow in the heart of winter.
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Gretna Green: Last Call for Scottish Souvenirs, First Call for Weddings
Blog: Travelogged - 18 November 2010
When I go on a trip, I like to bring home souvenirs for my family (and, yes, for myself too). I usually like to purchase them at the end so I don’t have to bother carrying around and so that I feel like I’ve seen everything before I commit. Sometimes this works out, and sometimes [...]
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Glasgow - Off the beaten track
Blog: A Travel Around the World - 10 June 2010
When you grew up in the same city for 25 years it is inevitable that you put the blinkers on and start to become oblivious to the enironment around you, but really this should never the be the case because if you start to look at things in a slighly different perspective you realise that what you walk past on a daily basis can be really quite interesting.
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Lady on the Isle
Blog: A Lady in London - 1 February 2010
My grandmother grew up in Glasgow. When she was just a wee lass, Glasgow was an important industrial hub and the River Clyde buzzed--quite literally--with industry and growth. Culture flourished as Scotland's most famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, designed the likes of the Willow Tea Rooms and the Glasgow School of Art. The city was on the up and up.
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Celtic Connections taster
Blog: Music Road - 16 January 2010
Celtic Connections is in full swing in Glasgow now. here's a taste:fiddles! Mairead and Ciaranhere is BBC Scotland's Celtic Connections 2010 site -- most audio available world wide, most video in UK only. the festival runs through 31 January.you may also want to see
