photographing music: Scotland

Eddi Reader at the Royal Glasgow Concert Hall, a different view of Buchanan street, and piper in George Square on Burns night


music to go along
Music Road: Music for St Andrew's Day: music of Scotland

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Winter music: first week of January

In winter, time takes on its own character, differing from that it holds in other seasons. There's the quiet mediation of early morning, the energy of holiday streets and meetings, and the stillness of a candle's glow. The work of solitude, and the work of community.





music to go along with these ideas
Music Road: Another Fine Winter's Night: Matt & Shannon Heaton

Music Road: winter meditation: aine minogue

Music Road: Gretchen Peters: Northern Lights


























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happy new year

here's to a new year filled with music, creativity, and peace.
thank you for walking a while along the Music Road.
check out best music, 2008 -- top choices include recordings from Kathy Mattea, Barry Walsh, Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhloaibh, Hanneke Cassel and Christopher Lweis, Mary Black, and others.
come join us in the new year for more great music, creative inspiration and several surprises --



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The Boston Celtic Music Festival is on the way, 9 and 10 January.

Creative practice: winter light, and music

Thinking about the light, the work, and the music, of winter. A time for celebration and reflection, for community and silence, for hope and joy at the year's darkest time.

Amy Grant has a song, Breath of Heaven, in which she sees the questioning and the trust of that first Christmas winter from Mary's point of view

Carrie Newcomer has an album coming out in February called The Geography of Light. More about that here

Matt and Shannon Heaton have a holiday album which also works with these ideas. It’s called Fine Winter’s Night, and you may learn more about it here

Cathie Ryan has an album called The Farthest Wave, which speaks of grief, healing and, hope, and journeys from dark to light. Click on the title for review and comment on this album.


Narada’s Best of Celtic Christmas, Kathy Mattea’s Joy for Christmas Day, and several other holiday albums, offer music for the for the light and dark of winter. Learn more at this link.

and if you'd like to consider music for Winter, Solstice, and Holidays of all sorts follow that link for a story at Wandering Educators.

A cup of Barry's Tea and bit of your own music would be good, too.

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