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There has been entirely too much heartbreak recently in the world of traditional music and it just seems to keep coming. Just after writing about t...

A little while back, I received a parcel from the Irish Traditional Music Archive that contained, among other things, a handsomely presented two CD...

Every Covid hospital patient in north-east to get mental health screening © Scott Baxter/ DCT Media Dr Maggie Whyte and Dr Murray Smith are leading the project to give every person who was in hospital for Covid a mental health screening. Picture by Scott Baxter. Every north-east patient who needed hospital treatment for Covid-19 will get a mental health screening to help cut rates of depression, anxiety and PTSD. Around 1,300 people in Grampian have required treatment in hospital for the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. It is estimated as many as one-third of them could have long...

The Rolling Wave podcast, Michael Harrison talks about the music of his grandmother Aggie Whyte - listen above. Aggie Whyte (1920-1979) was an award-winning fiddle player who was described by Seamus Ennis as 'Queen of Fiddlers'. She was one of the musicians recorded by Alan Lomax on his visit to Ireland in 1951, and a duet she recorded with her sister Bridie at that time again prompted Seamus Ennis to describe them as the ‘perfect fiddle duet’. Aggie was the first woman to win the All Ireland Senior Fiddle Competition at the Fleadh in 1954. She also won numerous other All-Ireland titles i...