Posts Tagged ‘tartan’
The top ten tartan chart toppers
From Calvin Harris to the Bay City Rollers, Scotland has produced some memorable chart-topping musical acts over the years. Here’s a Scottish Field top 10 of Scottish pop chart success. 1. Bay City Rollers – Bye Bye Baby They were the tartan-wearing teen sensations of the 1970s, with their pictures adorning the bedroom walls of…
Read MorePiping Live! 2019 will bring music stars to Glasgow
The world’s biggest week of piping is set to bring 40,000 music fans to Glasgow this summer. Glasgow’s Buchanan Street was today transformed into the Piping Walk of Fame, with Hollywood-style stars revealing the headliners of this year’s Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival, which returns to the city 10 – 18 August 2019. The…
Read MoreThousands took part in pipe band championships
Several thousand of the world’s best pipers and drummers turned Paisley into a sea of tartan at the weekend as the town hosted one of piping’s biggest and most prestigious events. The British Pipe Band Championships saw huge crowds flock to the town’s St James Playing Fields for the first of the five annual ‘majors’…
Read MoreLife beyond Taggart puts Blythe Duff on stage
When Taggart, the long-running detective series that subsidised Scotland’s theatrical community for many years, came to an end in 2010, Blythe Duff faced a choice. After a double-decade shift in the long leather coat of DI Jackie Reid, should she sit back and live off the repeat fees? Or was it time to hang up…
Read MoreA historic weapon goes on show for first time
A hunting rifle gifted by Queen Victoria to her loyal servant John Brown has been acquired by National Museums Scotland. The rifle will go on public display for the first time in a major exhibition this summer, Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland. A gold plaque fitted into the butt of the.450 double-barrelled hammer…
Read MoreXpoNorth will give talent a good showcase
XpoNorth has revealed the acts invited to showcase at this year’s edition Scotland’s leading conference and showcase for the creative industries. Taking place across 3 and 4 July, the live programme will see some of the most exciting artists from the Highlands and Islands and the rest of Scotland perform across a host of city…
Read MoreThe Scotsman who was a hero to Albert Einstein
When Albert Einstein, perhaps the most famous physicist of all time, published his special theory of relativity in 1905, he used the opening sentence to mention one of Scotland’s greatest scientific minds – James Clerk Maxwell. Later, when marking the centenary of Maxwell’s birth, Einstein wrote: ‘The theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell’s…
Read MoreThere’s 18 Scots in the running for top bartender title
Diageo Reserve has announced its 2019 World Class Top 100 bartenders – with almost a fifth of the top contestants from Scotland. The digital entry stage this year attracted a record number with a 50 per cent increase from the 2018 GB competition. The following competitors have all been chosen as the top 100 and…
Read MoreTartan Day’s Dressed To Kilt was a massive success
Kilts and craftsmanship were on full display at this year’s Dressed to Kilt event. The hugely popular Dressed to Kilt Scottish fashion show in New York City featured a collaboration between Calzeat & Co Ltd and Glenisla Kilts worked together to produce the Navy SEAL Tartan kilt for Master Chief Edward Byers Jr., Navy SEAL…
Read MoreShining a light on Glasgow’s colourful past
Scotland’s second city deserves a book devoted to its colourful past and Alan Taylor demonstrates that there is much more to the ‘no mean city’ than meets the eye in Glasgow – The Autobiography. He strides across centuries and delves into numerous sources for these incisive anecdotes from natives such as Liz Lochead and Tartan…
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