EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW 'In the very heart of beyond': Fiddler Alasdair White on music growing up in Lewis
HE now lives in New York City but Lewis-born virtuoso fiddler Alasdair White is quick to dispel any notion that he comes from the back of beyond.
Journalist
Award-winning journalist Nan Spowart has worked for daily and weekly newspapers and magazines in Scotland and Hong Kong, including the South China Morning Post, the Daily Record, Evening Times, Herald and Scotsman. She has worked for The National since its inception and won the Scottish Refugee Council’s feature award for her coverage of asylum and refugee issues in the Sunday National. She has also twice been named Epilepsy Scotland’s Journalist of the Year.
Award-winning journalist Nan Spowart has worked for daily and weekly newspapers and magazines in Scotland and Hong Kong, including the South China Morning Post, the Daily Record, Evening Times, Herald and Scotsman. She has worked for The National since its inception and won the Scottish Refugee Council’s feature award for her coverage of asylum and refugee issues in the Sunday National. She has also twice been named Epilepsy Scotland’s Journalist of the Year.
HE now lives in New York City but Lewis-born virtuoso fiddler Alasdair White is quick to dispel any notion that he comes from the back of beyond.
ONE of Scotland’s oldest historic homes is to stage its first art exhibition.
AYE Write in Glasgow may have been cancelled due to a funding shortfall but book lovers can still enjoy a stellar line-up of authors in nearby Paisley this month.
A MAJOR public fundraising campaign has been launched to help save two of Scotland’s most significant heritage buildings.
AN artificial 50ft life-size sperm whale, runes, tunes and Scandic connections will cast a spell over Orkney this summer during the 48th St Magnus International Festival.
IT’S officially spring and lambs should be gambolling in the fields while farmers sow the barley necessary for Scotland’s world-famous whisky.
A FAMOUS painting of James VI and I shows a huge hat decoration made of precious jewels which he said represented the countries he ruled with Scotland at the top.
A DANCE adaptation of Hamish Henderson’s award-winning Second World War poetry is to be part of this year’s Pomegranates festival.
THREE-quarters of Scottish small business owners are suffering sleepless nights over worries about the UK economy, according to a new survey.
A NEW exhibition inspired by Scottish fishing communities and seascapes is to be staged at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
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