As the name suggests, the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series ushers music into architectural spaces in relationships that can surprise, delight and perplex. Rarely, though, have sound and site ...
The refrain in Aoife O'Donovan’s “Transatlantic” — “You take the high road and I’ll take the low road/ I’ll get there before you” — is lifted almost verbatim from the old Scottish folk song “Loch ...
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A Brief History of “Auld Lang Syne”
Every New Year’s Eve, after the champagne has been popped, the ball has dropped, and everyone is feeling very merry indeed, revelers queue up the same song they’ve been queuing up for decades. You ...
Fans of Scottish folk songs are in for a treat, as Jim and Susie Malcolm return to Little Rock for a show Saturday at Hibernia Irish Tavern. The couple, married for 30 years, are both prize-winning ...
Portland, Ore.'s The Decemberists and British singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney have teamed up to cover traditional English (and Irish and Scottish) folk songs under the name Offa Rex. It's a match made ...
Video above: New Year’s Eve weekend safety tipsAs the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, voices all over the world will resurrect the centuries-old tradition of singing "Auld Lang Syne" to say ...
The familiar New Year’s tune Auld Lang Syne is seemingly familiar to just about everyone in Central Texas, across English-speaking countries and in many other parts of the world, too, but music ...
On New Year’s Eve at the stroke of midnight people around the globe break into a tune whose lyrics are believed to be based on a Scottish poem by Robert Burns. ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ which translates ...
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