Links for photos, stories and music from Scotland

A wrapup for 2024, starting with Auld Lang Syne!

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All the best to you for a meaningful 2025! Below are some links to articles from this year, if you’d like to dive into some of the music & walking tours we’ve been taking. Mixed in with the articles are relevant chapters from my book MusicScapes of Scotland, and a few fresh interviews and profiles, which I look forward to doing more of this coming year.

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Before we get started with some links, you might enjoy this article about the classic New Year’s song, Auld Lang Syne, including sheet music and four videos of different types of performances of this great Burns song.

Our most recent journey has been to the north of Scotland, and we haven’t finished yet! There are a few more adventures to go, to start the new year. But if you’d like to check out the start of our recent visit to Aberdeenshire, click here.

For the start of our visit to Shetland, click here.

Here’s the link to visit the Orkney Islands.

And here you go with a link to start our whole journey to the Scottish North.

If you’d like to revisit our music and walking trip to the Outer Hebrides, start here in Oban.

Our visit to the south of Scotland, from the Borders in the east to Burns country in the west, began with a stop to see the Kelpies.

We started out with a wonderful music and walking tour of the Highlands and Skye. To check that out, in Loch Lomond, here you go with a link.

I look forward to sharing more photos, stories, and music with you in the coming year!