Along with dancing, telling stories and reciting poetry, song singing is a key part of traditional céilidhs. Songs known as mouth music (puirt-a-beul) provided accompaniment for the dancing of ...

such as Creative Scotland support music and other creative Scottish industries so that its traditional cultures can be showcased regularly and celebrated globally. Play It!: Explore song elements ...

Among the luminaries of Scottish traditional music will be Julie Fowlis, who was featured in the soundtrack to Disney’s “Brave”; and Dougie MacLean, the singer-songwriter whose “Caledonia ...

Its music is drawn from folk traditions and inspired by Woody ... “Civil Butchery,” to a solo by King Henry’s Scottish enemy, the Earl of Douglas, who wonders aloud why he is singing a country song.