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HI~Arts Journal for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
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An introduction to the HI-Arts website.
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Features, Reviews and News Stories on the Northings and HI-Arts websites now include links to a range of social bookmarking / sharing websites.
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Surveying a Resurgent Scene
ROBERT LIVINGSTON looks at the ...
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All the latest Arts News from the HI~Arts Journal.
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ArtsNews archive from the HI~Arts Journal.
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Click below for the more recent features from the Northings Arts Journal...
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Venue profile with Director Roddy Murray.
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Northings catches up with Bruce MacGregor.
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GEORGINA COBURN discusses plans for a new Highland Gallery and Museum with the Chair of the steering group, Professor Duncan Macmillan.
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GEORGINA COBURN previews a new book and exhibition marking fifty years working in ceramics for Durness-based artist Lotte Glob.
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IAN STEPHEN, the Lewis-based writer, artist and sailor sets the scene for this month’s Three Islands Workshop on the island of Hoy.
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An Open Letter from Arts Correspondent GEORGINA COBURN.
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WILLIAM WILSON sets out the case for Lyth Arts Centre in the wake of the Scottish Arts Council’s decision to withdraw funding from the Caithness venue.
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KAREN EMSLIE considers the work of Shetland photographer Mark Sinclair
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CHRIS LEE of Moray-based Wildbird reports from his first visit to MipTV in Cannes
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ALISTAIR PEEBLES completes his two-part celebration of the re-opened Piers Arts Centre in Stromness.
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Venue profile with General Manager Andrea Muir.
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GEORGINA COBURN outlines the progress made through the latest phase of the refurbishment of the Timepan centre in Helmsdale.
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RODY GORMAN pays a poetic tribute to the late Simon Mackenzie, actor, writer, theatre director and Gaelic activist.
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Artists are doing it for themselves - the HI Arts Virtual Dinner Party
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Event reviews from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and beyond.
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The Highlands and Islands Virtual Jukebox for the best of recent demos from the north of Scotland.
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HI-Arts Journal archive material.
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Archive of ArtsFolk features in the HI~Arts Journal.
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WENDY SANDERS looks at the changes coming up in the structure of the Highland Council's arts teams.
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LYNN JOHNSON reports on a busy programme of arts activities in her area.
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MEG RODGER assesses the state of play in the Western Isles as their new Cultural Strategy is launched.
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ROXANA MEECHAN reflects on her work in Sutherland and beyond.
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EILEEN RAE looks at the Argyll & Bute residencies based in the artistic retreat at Cove Park.
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HELEN SEMPLE rounds up some recent projects in Lochaber.
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CLARE GEE rediscovers her vocal chords amid the manifold excitements of the Orkney arts scene.
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ADRIAN CLARK reflects on the changing arts scene in and around Inverness.
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KATHY HUBBARD is steeling herself to help spend £7 million of public money.
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NICK FEARNE reports from Moray as our ongoing series of articles on the work of the Highland Council's Arts Development Officers moves into a second cycle.
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Arts Officer LYNN JOHNSON rounds up some of the work going on in Badenoch and Strathspey.
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Arts Officer SHONA ARTHUR fights through the paperwork to provide the view from Nairn.
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MEG RODGER looks back on a busy summer of events in the Western Isles, and ahead to plans for more development of the local arts infrastructure.
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HELEN SEMPLE and ALI MACDONALD report on their combined efforts in Lochaber
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TOM BRYAN evaluates recent progress in Arts Development in Caithness.
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EILEEN RAE reports on the ‘a-b, Creative Routes’ Literature and Storytelling project in Argyll and Bute
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WENDY SANDERS focuses on the SPAciffic Memories project in Strathpeffer
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CLARE GEE looks back on a busy first year as Arts Officer in Orkney
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ADRIAN CLARK reports on the wide-ranging activities of the Community, Learning and Leisure section in the Highland capital
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KATHY HUBBARD, Shetland Arts Trust
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ArtsFolk - Moray Arts Officers
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ALISTAIR PEEBLES, discusses Orkney Arts Development Officer CLARE GEE'S experiences in the North East of England, and some forthcoming projects in Orkney
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ALISTAIR PEEBLES talks to Orkney's new Arts Development Officer, CLARE GEE
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Youth Editor ANDREA MUIR catches up with LUCY CONWAY in a rare moment of repose.
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Dingwall-based ANDREA MUIR records her adventures on the writing course at the Arvon Foundation’s centre in deepest Devon.
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4 November 2003
7.30am Woken by much door slamming and toilet flushing. This place has very thin walls. Stuff head ...
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7 November 2003
8.45am I’ve cracked it. I’m up. The sun is shining. I’m a writer.
2pm Just having a little ...
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Shetland Arts Trust Project Manager, KATHY HUBBARD, talks to ANDY ROSS.
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AR: What is the major difficulty with the work that you do in the Trust?
KH: Not enough hours in the day, days in ...
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FIONA MACKENZIE takes a wry look at the highs and lows of a visitor-cum-competitor at the centenary celebrations of the Royal National Mod.
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Tuesday 14 OctoberSky still a glorious cerulean blue. Definitely not Oban in October. Daughter and son competing today ...
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Thursday 16 OctoberObserve duet competition - some nice, some … unusual. Nice to see particpants from Australia and ...
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TOMMY BEAVITT reports on the stresses, strains and ultimate satisfactions in helping mount the Wester Ross Festival – even if it did turn much of the month into one big blur of activity.
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THE GREAT THING about the Fling was the degree of community involvement it gained. This made a huge difference to the ...
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WESTER ROSS is a large and diverse area involving some long distance travel. I seemed to spend half my time in my van ...
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THE CONCERT by Mr McFall’s Chamber featuring Valentina Martinez and Gallo Ceron was really fantastic. Several audience ...
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KENNY MATHIESON hears about the work of DUNCAN MACINNES, who is the administrator of PAN, the Highland-wide promoters network, and is involved in running SEALL Arts and the Skye Festival in south Skye.
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IN ADDITION TO his work with SEALL and the Skye Festival, Duncan is also the administrator of PAN (Promoters Arts ...
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ROBERT MAIN-ELLEN who runs Medicine Music, the principal promotion agency for roots music and Americana in the Highlands & Islands, talks to Kenny Mathieson.
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THE CONTACTS which he had made in that period continued to pay off, and he began to get calls from artists who had ...
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ADRIAN CLARK reports on a month (or so) behind the scenes in the life of an Arts Officer.
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MORE RISKY is a concert/dance of West Swedish music in Kilmorack Hall. In the event word-of-mouth does the trick and ...
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BRIAN Ó HEADHRA is the Gaelic Youth Development Officer for the Highland Region, but that is only one of his many roles, as KENNY MATHIESON discovered.
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IF PLAYING and programming the venue keep him busy in the evenings, his day job is also a demanding one. He and Fiona ...
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ROBERT LIVINGSTON, Director of arts development agency, HI~Arts, records his hectic May 2003.
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May 19th
A very intensive day working with our Audience Development Coordinator, Marcus Wilson, and Catalyst Arts—who ...
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KENNY MATHIESON looks at the work of KEN RAMAGE in establishing the Nairn International Jazz Festival.
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THE FESTIVAL has attracted many big names over the years, drawn by the lure of the beautiful setting and Ken’s ...
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In the first of a series on the behind the scenes work of arts people in the Highlands, ANDY ROSS reports from a busy May at the Wind Dog Café in Yell in the Shetland Islands.
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Tuesday 20 MayI am always looking at helping people to have new experiences and this wine tasting was meant to be just ...
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TOM BRYAN looks at the role of KATRINA GORDON as the Cultural Co-ordinator for Caithness.
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PEOPLE ON the land make and tell things that are thousands of years young. People on the sea are the same. The Flow ...
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Archive of Speakout features in the HI~Arts Journal.
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IAN STEPHEN is determined that this summer’s St Kilda – A European Opera won’t be the last word on the a musical depiction of the island’s story.
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ROBERT LIVINGSTON recalls the most important formative experience in his career in the arts at Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre, and ponders the lessons to be learned from its fascinating legacy.
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JOHN BURNS looks at the burgeoning world-wide lure of the blog.
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MORAG McGILL sounds off on the official neglect of indigenous writing in Orkney, and celebrates a step in the right direction.
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GEORGINA COBURN takes a critical look at the nurturing of creative opportunities in the Highlands & Islands.
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BRIAN MORTON suggests that the BBC could learn valuable lessons from its counterpart in Canada.
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BRIAN MORTON considers the changing relationship of the Royal National Mod and its host town for this year, Dunoon.
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GEORGINA COBURN condemns the short-sighted policy of removing specialist art and music teachers from early primary school.
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MICHAEL RUSSELL argues that it is time to take a more adventurous approach to large-scale ambition in our cultural and physical landscape.
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LINDA JOLLY speaks up for the work of the voluntary arts sector in the Highlands.
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JOHN BURNS ponders the relevance of creativity in the hard-nosed world of business
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SUE WILSON reflects on the lessons to be drawn for Scottish musicians from the Womex world music convention in Gateshead.
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GEORGINA COBURN reflects on the cultural energy and grassroots decision-making of Western Canada as a model for development in the Highlands and Islands in 2007 and beyond.
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BRIAN MORTON ponders the findings of the Cultural Commission report
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ROBERT DAVIDSON tackles the difficult questions facing Fiona Hampton and the Highland 2007 team
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BRIAN MORTON cast a skeptical eye on the latest Cultural Review, and suggests an alternative model for advancing the arts in Scotland
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ANNE MACLEOD ponders the complex relationship between her dual roles as medical practitioner and creative writer
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GEORGE GUNN, the artistic director of Grey Coast, responds passionately and provocatively to a survey on the National Theatre of Scotland.
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CATRIONA PAUL considers the state of Celtic film and televison
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BUT THE festival’s not really about celebrity. 2004 marked its 25th anniversary and birthday celebrations took place ...
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IF LACK OF publicity coincides with a failure by ...
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ROBERT DAVIDSON draws on his experience as a published writer and an editor
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AT ANY TIME in Scotland there are a number of people writing poetry with varying degrees of commitment and to ...
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YOU MIGHT LOOK to peer appreciation but, if you are wise, you will remember the size of the scene and its incest and ...
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OVER MANY YEARS the Scottish Arts Council and others have made great efforts to encourage and develop writing in this ...
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AONGHAS MacNEACAIL casts an eye over the current furore surrounding funding the arts and cultural policy
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AS I RECALL, what most recently fanned the flames of controversy, in the letters pages at least, was a Herald opinion ...
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THAT ART IS necessary may be inferred from the cave paintings and figurines created by our earliest known ancestors. ...
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I THINK IT IS crucial to demand effective funding for every artform. That Opera is labour-intensive we must accept, ...
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ROBERT DAVIDSON proposes a new vision of Inverness as an exciting, cosmopolitan City of the Highlands for the 21st century
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TOM NAIRN ONCE opined that the European future might reside in the return of the City State. He may have been ...
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WE NEED A repertory company comparable to Dundee’s, with a dedicated venue to perform in and there build its ...
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THE MODERN WORLD shares and strives against such prejudices as well as the problems of illiteracy, poverty, drugs, ...
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GEORGE GUNN casts a skeptical eye over the role of the proposed Scottish National Theatre, and suggests that the work of W B Yeats in Ireland and the identity and insight of Highland experience can provide a path for a genuine National Theatre.
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SO WHAT IS THERE, really, to say about a National Theatre of Scotland? Well, there is plenty. There are two words ...
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THE PRESENT CRITICISM of our current Scottish Executive is that it has raised the disgrace of inactivity to a fine ...
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WHAT YEATS SO brilliantly pointed to was that Irish history, its struggles and mythology, was endemically heroic so ...
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ONLY IF THE National Theatre of Scotland employs such a subversive embrace will it serve the needs of the emerging ...
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THE TRUTH IS WE, as a people, as a ...
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GORDON MACLEAN, director of An Tobar, the Tobermory Arts Centre on Mull, sounds off on the current threat to the Highland Festival’s funding from Highland Council, and demands support for the arts at all levels.
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THE HIGHLAND FESTIVAL can bring internationally renowned artists to this area at a level that small promoters can’t ...
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Is live performance a different experience in Shetland? ANDY ROSS ponders the etiquette of audience reception.
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JOHN BURNS on poetry.
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I SUPPOSE there are a number of reasons and they all have to do with my own experience of writing and performing ...
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I THINK THE main reason is that poets have become lazy in both what they write and how they perform. One example of ...
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PERFORMING POETRY WELL is a difficult art to master. Once you stand in front of an audience with your poem in your ...
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PETER URPETH, contributing editor of the HI~Arts Journal, looks at why the music of the Gael remains marginalised within the national context of folk and music events.
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THE RECORD started with a little talk and then a slow rhythmic thumping. One women started to sing with a kind of ...
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THE TRUTH IS that while boats and trains have come and gone, and me on some of them taking my leave of the islands and ...
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THE PROGRAMMES of most folk festivals in the British Isles never have a Scottish Gaelic singer in their ranks. Some of ...
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GEORGE GUNN, Artistic Director of Grey Coast Theatre, looks into the failed Inverness/Highland bid to be Capital of Culture 2008.
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THERE was always something tragic about the Highland Council’s InvernessHighland 2008 bid. The problem with the whole ...
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THAT may be so in the inner circles of consultantland, but the stark truth for Scotland as a whole is different. The ...
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Archive of Band Profile features in the HI~Arts Journal.
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DÀIMH are one of the headline bands in this month’s Blas Festival.
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The Arts Journal looks at the CHRIS STOUT BAND
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Band profile - Dòchas
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PETER URPETH gets the lowdown on a Gaelic punk band from Seattle ahead of their short tour of Scotland
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The Arts Journal profiles BACHUÉ and THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS
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The Arts Journal profiles MEANTIME
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The Arts Journal profiles CROFT NO FIVE
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PETER URPETH teases out the tale of Scotland’s most indestructible folk band, BATTLEFIELD BAND
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The Arts Journal profiles BROLUM, the seven-piece band playing traditional and contemporary Scottish music, featuring both Scots and Gaelic songs.
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Band profile of Gaelic supergroup, Cliar.
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The Arts Journal profiles the ANNA MASSIE BAND
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Anna comes from a musical family in Fortrose (her father, Bob Massie, is a well-known local musician). She began ...
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The Arts Journal profiles BLAZIN’ FIDDLES, a major force on the Scottish folk scene
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Lochaber rock band CARSON are currently flying the flag for the Highland’s strong indie rock scene.
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Archived monthly editorial from the HI~Arts Journal.
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Archived monthly features for 2008.
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FEATURES: HI-EX! (Georgina Coburn)
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THE FIRST EVENT of its kind in the Highlands, Hi-Ex! will bring a host of comic artists and exhibitors to the area in an exciting two day programme of screenings, talks, interviews, panel discussions, workshops and an exhibition of original comic art. GEORGINA COBURN spoke to organisers Vicky Stonebridge and Richard Clements.
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FEATURES: Robert Alan Jamieson (Ian Stephen)
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IAN STEPHEN considers an audio visual performance from Shetland by poet Robert Alan Jamieson as perceived from another island.
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Journal Archive - Issues 44-54 (2007)
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NORTHINGS is delighted to be participating in the Tanera Mor International Artists Workshop.
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Information on Tanera Mhor, the island of the Triangle Arts Trust's International Artists Workshop residency, June 2007.
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The International Artists Workshop will allow it's participants to ...
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