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In Good Hands, by S. Eydmann

New Book! Will Appeal to Traditional Musicians

There's a new authoritative history of The Clarsach Society, In Good Hands, authored by esteemed historian Stuart Eydmann.  It was launched at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival (31st March – 5th April 2017); it goes without saying that we'll get a copy for the Whittaker Library at the earliest opportunity! 

Here's the press release link (click here).

Stuart Eydmann blogs about the Fiddle in the Scottish Folk Revival

The Fiddle in the Scottish Folk Revival

Stuart Eydmann was Traditional Artist in Residence at the University of Edinburgh in 2013-2014.  During that time he maintained a blog about the Fiddle in the Scottish Folk Revival.

You can access this useful blog here.

A Scotch Musical Miscellany by Stuart Eydmann

Just heard about Stuart's new website, at http://scotchmusic.com/.  (It also contains a link to his Rare Tunes recordings pages.)  Do take a look - it's a beatifully designed site.
 
Here's how he introduces it:-

"The Miscellany is concerned with aspects of the traditional and popular music of Scotland and complements other print, recorded, archival and on-line resources.
 
"There is a page for longer articles on traditional music, a ‘scrap book’ page for archival material, links to key policy texts, selected playlists of video content and on-line music tracks, a photographic archive and dedicated areas on certain instruments and subjects. All material is published in PDF form for portability and the layout has been designed to suit the iPad and other electronic reading devices as well as print at A4. Articles are dynamic and will be amended in the light of new information and feedback, with all changes marked by version numbers."