Memoir of four musicians who left Wales to pursue their art in the USA: composers Joseph Parry and Daniel Protheroe, pianist Marie Novello and the author herself. It is written in a blend of literary...
by Jim Byers, Jonathan Trew, Fiona Shepherd and Alison Stroak
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 9781846975325
Pub Date: 2022-06-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Polygon
144 Pages
Explore Edinburgh's hidden music heritage, plus a few of its more tuneful tall tales, with this eye-opening guide of the city's music milestones, famous gigs, infamous incidents and colourful characters.
A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe
by William Donaldson
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780276878
Pub Date: 2022-04-03
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
240 Pages
Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community of Scottish piping, introducing the instrument itself and the various different repertories. It also discusses piping techniques as...
Sermon and Song in Wales and among the Welsh in America
by Ronald Rees
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781912631292
Pub Date: 2021-05-26
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
240 Pages
The history of the Welsh love of hymn singing, and of how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the Welsh imagination and spread via Welsh emigrants to the religious communities of the USA.
Songs to stir the soul and move the feet, raise a roar or bring a tear to the eye. From Danny Boy to Boulavogue and more, this book celebrates the cream of Irish ballads, explaining the origins of each song, along with words, melodies and chords. Illustrated with evocative photographs and woodcuts..
Gaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together music and lyrics from all over the Gaelic-speaking Highlands and Islands...
Harlem 69 brings Stuart Cosgrove’s epic sixties trilogy to a dramatic conclusion and looks forward to brilliant music yet to come – jazz funk to disco and hip hop.
Memphis 68 is the second book in Stuart Cosgrove's vibrant trilogy of American soul music, told through the prism of social and civil upheaval. It takes the reader through the tumultuous year of 1968: from the aftermath of Otis Redding’s death to the rise of Black Power radicalism, and the tragic assassination of Martin Luther King.
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