Dr Donna Heddle said she also found "interesting patterns of female empowerment" while researching works for a lecture at Celtic Connections. Poems she examined included Tam o' Shanter, which was ...

Ever since she took a workshop with children’s literature giant Madeleine L’Engle in Dublin about 10 years ago, Allentown author Sally Keehn wanted to retell the story of Tam Lin, an old Scottish ...

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Celebrate Burns Night at Genesis Theatre, Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre, Tuesday 25 January, 8pm Alistair Hulett is a powerful and impassioned singer who proudly carries on the folk ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

Scottish poet and social media influencer Len Pennie grew up speaking both Scots and English. Now with more than a million ...

Next work: Scots Prologue, for Mrs Sutherland's Benefit Night My heart is wae and unco wae, To think upon the raging sea, That roars between her gardens green, And th' bonie lass of ALBANIE.- This ...

Aria Entertainment & KT Producing have today announced the London premiere of major new folk musical Ballad Lines, which will run for eight weeks at Southwark Playhouse Elephant from 23 January - 21 ...