Louis Barabbas, Caroline Bruns and Katy Lawrence get busy with some heavy lifting ahead of this Saturday's opening of ...

Kate Forbes MSP and local councillor John Finlayson are joined by local children and various parties involved in the new school as the first turf is cut. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. BY KIRSTY WATT It ...

Heading to the USA - Highland Dancers from Dannsairean an Eilein Sgitheanaich, Lacey Morgan, Ami MacKinnon, Emma Campbell, ...

BY DANIEL CULLEN The 43rd Colonel Jock MacDonald memorial competition was held at Viewfield house in Portree last Saturday. The Colonel Jock, as usual, brought some of the finest young traditional mus ...

Pupils from Broadford Primary School, from nursery and Sgoil Àraich through to P7, took to the stage last week to perform ‘The Wizards of Ness’ – a pantomime-style adaptation of… ...

Gaelic psalmody is a beautiful, haunting form of music which is unique to the Scots Gaelic speaking world, now mostly within West Highlands and Western Isles and the Gaelic diaspora in our major ...

My auntie Mairi Flòraidh MacInnes who has lived all her life in Eriskay was saying to me recently as we chatted on the phone, “Chan eil mi cinnteach cò às a thog thu fighe, chan fhaca mi riamh do ...

LIAM ALASTAIR CROUSE on what the recordings on the Tobar an Dualchais website tell us about how the environment can shape cultural practice….. Like many coastal areas in the Highlands and Islands of ...

Alzheimer Scotland held a Christmas event in Portree on Friday of last week. Thanks to funding from Bòrd na Gàidhlig, their Gaelic gathering was in Shepherd’s Way Church. Dementia advisor Lesley ...

Folklorist Frances Wilkins on the beauty of a Gaelic Christmas hymn and the tales of emigration which lie behind it…… Emigration, whether forced or voluntary, by ...

The National Trust for Scotland have revealed rare species were sighted at their Torridon and Canna sites for the first time in many years thanks to conservation efforts. Last summer, a Scotch annulet ...

Ryan Dziadowic, originally from Poland but now living in Grimsay, looks at the traditional Gaelic concept of dùthchas and what it means in the modern world….. Dùthchas – a Gaelic word which carries so ...