Podcast appearances and mentions of sheena wellington

New Year 2024 Tae set the year aff in style wiv got a special programme sorted oot tae celebrate the new epoch. We welcome the new Scots Screiver, Susie Briggs fa will be representin Gallowa in the next year. Renowned singer, Sheena Wellington taks us through the mony facets o Robert Burns afore her workshop […]

Journey with us in the footsteps of Scottish-American naturalist, conservationist, and inventor John Muir! Host Andrew reports on an extraordinary experience visiting the Muir Papers and exhibit at the University of the Pacific in California. Hear what it's like to open and examine boxes of Muir's original papers, letters, and fragments. Plus, a selection of great music as always, including Sheena Wellington, Valtos & Project Smok, and Doron Diamond. And don't miss Finding John Muir, pt. 2 - available to members of our Patreon Clan. Join today!

Ally Heather, presenter o BBC Scotland's documentary on Scots ‘The Rebel Tongue' has flitted back to Dundee in lockdoon and kicked aff a hail series o online sessions on Dundee Scots whaur folk frae the city can get mair confident wi their ain brand o Scots. Horror tales o the language being banned frae the hoose as ‘oary' or ‘orrae' abound (oary is Dundonian Scots for common, coarse or vulgar, lower class) and jist aboot aabody is that wee bit feart tae be heard spikking it at wark, but gaithering thegither can gie ye confidence. Stars o the Scots tongue like Sheena Wellington pop up to gie encouragement. Narrator Nalini Chetty gets tae grips wi the “Rebel Tongue' o Dundonians - mebbe it's braw to be oary efter aa!

In the third of our four  Daytime Show Specials celebrating International Women's Day 2021, Val and Marlene chat with more  inspirational women including Sheena Wellington, Lesley Riddoch, Tina Yu, Anamisha McCoy, Jean Anderson and Eileen Budd,  also with poetry from Maya Angelou and Lorraine Sinclair. Happy International Women's Day to women everywhere!   

The Alex Salmond Show celebrates the birthday of Scotland’s national bard Robert Burns by featuring an upcoming book on Scottish working class hero Jimmy Reid, leader of the “work in” at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders 50 years ago. Reid was one of many world figures greatly influenced by the work of Burns. Alex interviews the author of the book, Brian McGeachan, and well known Burnsians broadcaster Billy Kay and Scottish singing legend Sheena Wellington.

On the 700th anniversary of the declaration of Arbroath, the Alex Salmond Show looks at Scotland’s very own independence declaration and discusses with professor Ted Cowan, singer Sheena Wellington and author Billy Kay how this medieval letter from the community of the realm of Scotland has impacted European and world history.

First off, thanks to everybody who's nipped over to https://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims and subscribed to the podcast. If you've not yet done it, and have been meaning to, there's never been a better time. Your reward will be great in heaven. And thanks. Now, this episode is a slight departure for us in that nobody mentions Planxty. Not once. And there's less of a strictly traditional Irish feel to this one. But basically we had a chance to record Bush Gothic at Portarlington, so we said ‘Yes please.' If you're not yet familiar with them, Bush Gothic reimagine traditional songs - from Australia, Ireland, England, wherever they find them - in the deepest sense of that word ‘reimagine.' What happens when that happens? Songs are suddenly visible in new light, with new contours and meanings evident. It's pretty amazing. You think about words you've heard maybe hundreds of times before in a whole new way. And as I mention in the intro to the episode, they leave space in their arrangements, so you can really hear the songs, the music, unfurl. So listen, with headphones if possible, cos this is seriously beautiful music. And here's some things to get you going after you're done listening: Darren mentions one of the band's films, which you can see here – their version of the (I think) English song, Jim Jones: https://bit.ly/2H3JUBP Then there's the toxic masculinity of Kenneth McKellar. (I know, right?) Here he is singing ‘The Wee Cooper of Fife', the song I referred to…nickety nackety noo… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcH0qtyvbQE …The Ould Triangle, as sung by Brendan Behan… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7red9Rw4450 …and following on from our chat about Burns, some thoughts on the great Scottish poet as a ‘Weinsteinian Sex Pest': https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/jan/24/robert-burns-was-the-beloved-poet-a-weinsteinian-sex-pest …and a suggestion that Veronica Forrest-Thomson might be a poet more worthy of your attention: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/jan/25/burns-night-celebrates-the-wrong-scottish-poet-robert-burns So, why were we (me and my pals) celebrating Burns, as discussed in the episode? At the time I took shelter in the notion that what I felt we were celebrating was not Burns the man, with his qualities and his failings, but the idea of Burns. A man, a poet, a romantic and an espouser in verse of liberal ideals of the kind found in ‘A Man's A Man For A' That': Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave – we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that. Our toils obscure and a' that, The rank is but a guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that… Then let us pray that come it may, (As come it will for a' that,) That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that. Sung, in an amazing, emotional moment, by Sheena Wellington at the official opening of the Scottish Parliament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o But maybe my explanation was a cop out, I'm not sure. Also, I've just realized, I fell in love with Burns's song Now Westlin' Winds, as recorded by Dick Gaughan, at the same time as I fell in love with a girl who didn't fall in love with me. If you're looking for the poem from which the song derives, it's called Song Composed in August, and it's gorgeous: http://www.robertburns.org/works/31.shtml Check out that nature imagery ya bas. Here's Dick Gaughan's version: https://bit.ly/2H5cK4L So I'm sure my unrequited teenage love had something to do with something. And, finally, you can't ignore the fact that if nothing else, Burns Night is a great excuse for a massive, ceremonial piss-up in the middle of winter. So there's that. And then there's the English band The Unthanks: http://www.the-unthanks.com/about/ I first came across their music through their…what…heart-stopping version of the King Of Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fL3E8FRxiw …which sends shivers through me every time I hear it, and puts me in mind of both Elbow, and Kate Rusby's ‘My Young Man,' which is also completely heart-stopping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjblYI9KEY And finally, Darren references Turkey In The Straw and the debate that comes and goes in the Old Time world, I suspect, about whether it's possible to unweave a melody from the words it has traditionally been attached to. This is the NPR feature on the song's origins: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/11/310708342/recall-that-ice-cream-truck-song-we-have-unpleasant-news-for-you?t=1565685084013 I wonder too, as Jenny says, if there are some songs, melodies – whatever – that we should just bury once and for all, because they're so damaging. Which, when all's said and done, seems fine to me. Jenny M Thomas, Dan Witton and Chris Lewis, thanks again. Bush Gothic's live filming is happening on Monday September 2nd at the Retreat Hotel in Abbotsford. You can get tickets here: https://www.facebook.com/events/the-retreat-hotel-abbotsford/music-clip-filming-concert-bush-gothic/898136590560546/ And you can get hold of their albums at their bandcamp page: https://bushgothic.bandcamp.com/ ... If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims. Of course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend. If you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. 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В рождественском выпуске программы "Лунный Город" музыка от: SECRET GARDEN, ASNE VALLAND NORDLI, LOREENA MCKENNIT, HECTOR ZAZOU, SHEENA WELLINGTON и других исполнителей. Автор и ведущая - Александра Ромашова.

В рождественском выпуске программы "Лунный Город" музыка от: SECRET GARDEN, ASNE VALLAND NORDLI, LOREENA MCKENNIT, HECTOR ZAZOU, SHEENA WELLINGTON и других исполнителей. Автор и ведущая - Александра Ромашова.

In Episode 36 o Scots Radio we celebrate our three-year anniversary wi some typical festive good cheer. We open up the ‘Wee Windaes’ wi Scots Screiver Hamish MacDonald and discover a new online cultural treasure trove. Sheena Wellington unwraps the plans for the ‘Jimmy Shand Collection’ an Kirsty Gallacher fae ‘Into Film Scotland’ wraps up […]

This podcast features new and classic Scottish music and introduces Hands Up for Trad's project's FolkWaves, MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards and the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award. There’s new music from Saltfishforty and singer Sarah Hayes and then a classic Shooglenifty track followed by more new music from Rachel Newton and Skerryvore. We finish off the podcast with a classic A Man’s A Man For A’ That by Sheena Wellington. Listen to and download all our other Foot Stompin’ Scottish music podcasts at www.handsupfortrad.co.uk. 

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Capturing some of the excitement of StAnza's spectacular opening evening, we have an interview with David Mach, sculptor and Burns burner; poems from acclaimed poets Bill Manhire and Kate Clanchy; music from the amazing Sheena Wellington; and the StAnza 2009 opening speech from Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. With thanks to Gill Bowman and Ewen Maclean for use of their tracks. Produced and presented by Colin Fraser for StAnza.

Here's our Mid January Free Foot Stompin' Scottish Music Podcast. We're starting off with Salsa Celtica who will have the whole of Celtic Connections dancing in the next few weeks, next is Rod Paterson singing Robert Burns's Ye Banks and Braes, then a classic fiddle re-release from Debbie Scott and Peerie Willie Johnson from Shetland. We then move back to Robert Burns and hear Sheena Wellington singing Ae Fond Kiss, then Luke Plumb's A Splendid Notion and finish up with the Battlefield Band's Home is Where the Van Is.