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DORIC TikTok sensation Aye Tunes is set to tour their production of My Doric Diary across Scotland.

Updated: April 30, 2021, 9:51 pm Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An Aberdeenshire folksinger’s voice has become the soundtrack to hopeful Aberdeen Football Club’s fans with her interpretation of The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen. The song, originally written by Mary Webb in the early 1950s, is the latest single f...

SPOTIFY has added Scots to their list of languages, in a major victory for a campaigning musician. In December, Iona Fyfe protested the streaming giant’s omission of the leid from their listing of all UK minority languages. While Manx, Irish Gaelic, Cornish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic are all recognised, Scots was not. Previously when Fyfe asked Spotify to allow her music to be listed as Scots, they told her to make do by “selecting the language closest to it”. For several years th...

Scots singer Iona Fyfe has urged Spotify to include her language on their platform SPOTIFY has been urged to include Scots on its list of languages after its exclusion was noted by a prominent Scottish musician. In a letter to the music streaming giant, singer Iona Fyfe said it was “heartbreaking” that people who sing in Scots have to categorise their songs as “English”. Fyfe, who was named Scots Performer of the Year at this year’s Scots Language Awards, had previously asked Sp...