“In April 1990, during Glasgow’s year as European City of Culture, the 90s Gallery in Otago Street marked the 29th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight in space with an exhibition by the Scottish space artists Ed Buckley and Tom Campbell from Glasgow “
March 13th is National Ear Muff Day so let’s celebrate all things eary and remember ears are important even ‘the hills have ears’.
“I hope in this new work, a listener will be rewarded for their patience from a cold, glacial ascent by a slowly thawing, burning hope” Erland Cooper
Artists from Orkney will take to the stage at Fresh Ayr, the brand-new folk festival taking place in Ayr’s Rozelle Park between 11 – 13 August 2023.
“You must remember this/A kiss is just a kiss”
In spring 2021, Orcadian composer and solo artist Erland Cooper planted the only existing copy of his forthcoming album ‘ Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence’ in Orkney, deleting all digital files and leaving only a treasure hunt of clues for fans and his record label alike to search for it.
“For most of us, music framed our youth, becoming the source of memorable markers through life, with the power to instantly bring us back to a moment decades past, evoking the emotional responses, the attendant memories and the joy and sadness of the times.”
Catriona Price, Kris Drever, and Eric Linklater, Saltfishforty, Gnoss and Fara will join more than 1,000 fellow musicians from across the world taking part in the 18-day Celtic Connections.
On 27th of November 1896 Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is performed in Frankfurt for the first time.
Orkney’s Aidan Moodie and Marcus Cordock are set to make history this winter, when they perform as part of Mànran at the world’s biggest ever ceilidh taking place at The Ovo Hydro, Glasgow on Saturday 17th December 2022.
