CELTIC CONNECTIONS 2011 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED Featuring Zakir Hussain, Mavis Staples, Lau, Fiddlers’ Bid, The Waterboys, Blind Boys of Alabama, Paul Brady, Grant Lee Buffalo, Richard Thompson and more 13th – 30th January 300 events, 18 days, 14 venues Artistic Director Donald Shaw hasunveiled an ambitious international programme for Celtic Connections 2011, sponsored by ScottishPower. A [...]
Read moreGlasgow Piping Festival: Fantastic!
It has been a fantastic edition: the 2010 Glasgow International Piping Festival. Yesterday, more than 53,000 people watched St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band (an Irish band) lift the world champion title in its centenary year. This year the festival had 239 bands, 133 from Scotland, who took part in more than nine hours of fierce [...]
Read morePiping Live @ Glasgow
Glasgow International Piping Festival 9th-15th August 2010 Many artists coming from worldwide. All in Glasgow, Scotland. List of the events. Venues. Mediaresearch will participate to the Festival
Read moreGlasgow Airport launches Airplay All
The world’s a stage at Glasgow Airport Glasgow Airport launches hunt for music stars of the future. Budding musicians could see their careers take off thanks to a new creative initiative from Scotland’s gateway airport. Glasgow Airport is giving up and coming young musicians the chance to perform in front of a worldwide audience of [...]
Read moreFreedom Come All Ye
Freedom Come All Ye A Scottish Songbook @ CELTIC CONNECTIONS 2010 – Glasgow Roch the wind in the clear day’s dawin Blaws the cloods heilster-gowdie owre the bay But there’s mair nor a roch wind blawin Thro the Great Glen o the warld the day It’s a thocht that wad gar oor rottans Aa thae [...]
Read moreTRUST – PSA Conference in Glasgow
Held on November 5-6 at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) the Annual Conference of the Media and Politics Group of the Political Studies Association. Friendly but always deep discussions about many important topics of the present debate about politics and communcation. Mediaresearch thanks Michael Higgins, Brian McNair and the University of Strathclyde for the warm [...]
Read moreMedia and Politics Group. Annual Conference: “TRUST”
CALL FOR PAPERS MEDIA AND POLITICS GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE: “TRUST” THURSDAY 5TH – FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, Glasgow, UK The annual conference of the Media and Politics Group of the Political Studies Association is to be held at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and themed on “trust”. The conference runs through Thursday [...]
Read moreOfcom appoints academic chair of national advisory committee
The UK communications regulatory body, Ofcom, has appointed Philip Schlesinger, professor in cultural policy and Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, as chair of its national advisory committee for Scotland. To Philip our warm and friendly congratulations.
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