Music Road

Straw Against the chill: that is an image of winter, certainly, and perhaps, an idea of hope and future. It is also the title Bob Franke ch...

Advent. It is a season of preparation, reflection, looking forward to Christmas and back at the year drawing to a close. Per...

It has been a bit quiet here. With all the noise going on in the world perhaps that’s been needed. Time for a bit of catching up though. I...

John McCusker: perhaps you’ve seen him play his fiddle on stage backing up folk singer songwriter Eddi Reader or rocker Mark Knopfler. Cou...

Eight somgwriters were invited to take on a creative challenge... When you think of Charles Darwin — should you think of him at all — you m...

Orkney has long been a crossroads of travel, or connection, of commerce, of culture, of contacts, of creativity. This group of islands is p...

Musicians use all sorts of tools with which to tell their stories. At times those tools include words. Other times, they do not. There are...