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6 days ago · Join us to hear Phil Cunningham's astonishing dexterity on accordion, and Aly Bain's impassioned fiddle playing. It's little wonder that these two stalwarts of Scottish traditional music have both been recognised with doctorates and MBEs for their services to music.
5 days ago · Together Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham have established themselves as the epitome of excellence in the world of traditional music. With their musical magic and quick-witted humour they will pull your emotional strings one moment and have you falling off the seat with laughter the next.
2 days ago · The consensus among rock historians is that rock and roll, as we know it today, first appeared in the mid-1950s. While the phrase ‘rock and roll’ has been around since the 1800s, when the term ‘rocking and rolling’ was an apt description of the movement of a ship on the ocean, in the early 20 th century, the term ‘rock and roll’ was used as a term to describe the spiritual fervor ...
1 day ago · The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California in 1965, [1] [2] known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia.
5 days ago · Two of Scotland's most popular and acclaimed musicians, Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain have been working together for since the mid Eighties. In 1988, after appearing together on several television series and finding a rapport and enjoyment in playing as a duo, they decided to tour together.
5 days ago · Featured in TIR Episode 85 (2 Parts): One of the leading funk, soul and jazz session keyboardists of the 1970s and 1980s, Philip Woo, who was also a band member of Roy Ayers’ Ubiquity and Frankie Beverly and Maze.
1 day ago · Rock. Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from ...
