10 days to go to the Edinburgh FluteFling weekend!

Jump into dance workshops with Sophie Stephenson and catch her at the Friday night concert with Calum Stewart and Luc McNally.

Details flutefling.scot/scottish-flute…

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#dance #stepdance #tradmusic #Edinburgh

Calum Stewart concert: brownpapertickets.com/event/6250938

Details, incl. workshops in Scottish Step Dancing, trad flute & whistle: flutefling.scot tmsa @tradmusicforum Hands Up For Trad

#flute #whistle #tradmusic #folkmusic #scottishmusic #stepdance #folkdance #edinburgh #festival

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Calum Stewart (Uilleann pipes, wooden flute) opens Edinburgh FluteFling w/end Fri 19 April with Luc McNally (guitar) & Sophie Stephenson (step dance). Supp: Dougie Pincock(flute, whistles), & Freya Rae (flute) & Siannie Moodie (harp).

Square tea bags? We’ve always hated them!

It’s time to change the game. Welcome to the cutting edge of brewing technology - the parallelogram bag.

Available in shops from today.

Our Easter Youth Fèis takes place next week, with 3 free community ceilidhs & we'll be joined by 3 young people from The Gergel Language School, Kyiv!

Ceilidhs ⬇️

2nd April, 7pm, Duthac Centre, Tain,
3rd April, 7pm, Ullapool Village Hall
4th April, 7pm, National Hotel, Dingwall

This iconic video by Stephen Morris shows how a domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A somewhat surprising mechanical chain reaction

If you're worried that AI will replace programmers, don't be. AI is a tool, in the same way that an IDE or a good editor is a tool. We'll use it to make our lives easier so that we can focus on the hard parts of programming that no AI comes close to doing. As to whether it will…

Semifinal 2. Which will get your vote? Steve Reich or Arvo Pärt? Please vote and retweet. #ClassicalPoll

Semifinal 1. Philip Glass vs John Adams. Which work will get to the Final? Please vote and retweet. #ClassicalPoll

Just a handful of places left for the workshops, suitable for wooden #flute , #Boehm system flutes, #whistles & #lowwhistles #Edinburgh #tradmusic #folk #celtic #Scottish TMSA Hands Up For Trad Trad Music Forum

Get ready for Edinburgh FluteFling 19-21 April! Celebrating 10 years with a weekend of music & workshops for #traditional #Scottish #flute , #whistle ,   #lowwhistle & #stepdance featuring Calum Stewart, Sharon Newton Creasey, Dougie Pincock & Sophie Stephenson flutefling.scot/scottish-flute…

FluteFling 10th Anniversary Celebration 🥳
19th - 21st April 2024, Edinburgh

With guests Calum Stewart, Dougie Pincock, Sharon Newton Creasey, dancer Sophie Stephenson and flute maker George Ormiston 🪈

🎫 More info and tickets: flutefling.scot

Photo from #WW1 captioned Accrington Pals on Avenue Parade in #Accrington wearing ‘Melton Blue’ uniforms - that would date it to final quarter of 1914 or January / February 1915. Andrew Jackson 🇺🇦 Amazing Accrington LancsInfantryMuseum #Lancashire

'I get a lot of letters from people. They say 'I want to be a writer. What should I do?' I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.'

Ruth Rendell, born #OTD 1930.

My monthly Tradwinds workshops for #flute and #whistle resume Saturday 27 January at The Fisherrow Trust, #Musselburgh , take the 26 bus from #Edinburgh . Details at Gordon-Turnbull.net

Software kills. So do people who lie about how good the software is, when they know it isn't. A must-watch piece from Dave Farley

Over the 12 days of Christmas, we're treating you to our greatest hits from 2023. Behold, the anxiety-inducing antics of Mr Fred Dibnah - steeplejack extraordinaire. 'I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once.'

#bbcarchive2023hits

'Victor Sjöström had made the movie ['The Phantom Carriage' (1921)] that, to me, was the film of all films. I saw it for the first time when I was fifteen; to this day I see it at least once every summer, either alone or in the company of younger people.'

--- Ingmar Bergman

'Many such composers [Neuer Konzeptualismus, etc] profess their opposition to an avant-garde establishment (whilst seeking advancement within it), and replace sophisticated musical content with performative political statements'

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