#Children Handstands. 8th Ave., #NewYork, Dallet Fuguet, 1896. Haifa Street, Baghdad, #Iraq, 2007. (Mine)

Here's a beautiful #Persian song to wrap up the week. Musicians in Exile, @GlasgowBarons' award-winning group for #asylum seeking and #refugee musicians, have been putting together new repertoire in isolation, available on their YouTube channel. #PlayOn youtube.com/watch?v=Z-wmvf…

Musicians in Exile with Jose Rojas in #Glasgow Green today #asylumseekers #Refugees

It's here!!! The programme for the 2020 virtual Bloody Scotland international crime writing festival: bit.ly/BloodScot2020 #CrimeFiction #BloodyScotland

The first partnership in Iraq to support improving youth skills! We're announcing our strategic partnership with the world’s leading online learning platform Coursera to formulate a working mechanism that supports Iraqi youth Read the full press release bit.ly/2QBVXdW

No matter how many lives are destroyed, it just takes one needless loss to wound a family forever

Internews Iraq has launched emergency grants for women journalists in distress. Details here: ow.ly/ifg750BbBRT

Tonight is the night!! The Gaelic Book Awards will be live in just over two hours! Set your reminders, tune in at 7pm, get excited! Gaelic Books Council Na Duaisean Litreachais 2020 youtu.be/8AIlGMiGylE via YouTube

Sunny G #Classics with Paul MacAlindin 9pm every Sunday bit.ly/3dkGaut or #MixcloudSELECT thereafter bit.ly/3jPhwox #Glasgow @ThrivingGovan Sunny G Radio

Support your local bookseller thebookseller.com/blogs/support-… via The Bookseller

#BloodyScotland attendees just about tripled in 2020 when we went online. Thank you all who tuned in! In this weekend's The Sunday Post: sundaypost.com/fp/bloody-scot…

Lovely article on our upcoming album Songs of Govan Old, out 4 Dec with Norrie Tago MacIver in Master_folk bit.ly/329IfoW

Out now in paperback, #GivingItAway - the #lockdown diaries of opera singer @paulcareyjones - are on sale worldwide via Amazon. 50% of the author's profits in 2020 will go to support the work of the The Royal Society of Musicians. amazon.co.uk/dp/B08M253WSX/…

Pre-order Songs of Govan Old, out 4th Dec, now. "Norrie MacIver and the Glasgow Barons, with their brilliant folk album, Songs Of Govan Old, manage to disproveThomas Wolfe’s novel title comment, You Can’t Go Home Again." bit.ly/38DCpA9 bit.ly/2IlSU8U #govan

Govan's working class heroes of times past to be celebrated in song glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18891741.… @GlasgowBarons dr t s Beall Protests and Suffragettes #NorrieMacIver #MaryBarbour #Govan

Songs of Govan Old “Not only an album bursting with pride and passion to stir the heart and blood but a damn fine listen even if you don’t have a tartan stitch to your DNA.” out Friday bit.ly/33AoTtS

Pandemonium reported by Keith Bruce on VoxCarnyx bit.ly/2LsJ8U9

Watch a brilliant performance of Thea Musgrave’s Night Windows (for Oboe and 15 Strings) with Amy Turner and & @GlasgowBarons. Part of online music festival Pandemonium. vimeo.com/498326040 #orchestra @GlasgowBarons

Thrilled to be on tonight's BBC Scotland Classics Unwrapped with Jamie MacDougall talking about @GlasgowBarons festival Pandemonium and all things Govan! Beautiful music to go with it too! #classical_music_lover #ClassicalMusic Bill Sweeney Nick Olsen Shona Mackay macneacail-composer

Enjoy Bill Sweeney's Seann Orain: Songs of South Uist revived by us in The Govan Stones 🛡👑 2018. Our strings perform in @SWG3glasgow cond. Paul MacAlindin Week 5 of Pandemonium bit.ly/2YKRFoK