Dear Outreach friends, Perhaps you may like to know of two new websites which I recently built. The first, at https://www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk/whalsay/ This could be helpful to anyone interested in singing traditions and British/irish ballad and song repertories. It features over 100 recordings made in the Shetland island of Whalsay during my rese...

The first Musedelica symposium will be held June 14-15th, 2016 at the Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. The symposium will bring together students, early career researchers, independent researchers and music producers from the field of psychedelic music and related areas. The symposium focusses on psychedelic music, es...

Here is a link to the resource, "Digital Dynamics Across Cultures", which is an interactive website that focuses on the cultural protocols of the Warumungu people from Central Australia. One most interesting things about this website is that the project members maintain a sophisticated method for partially or completely blocking access to certain c...

Tickets now available - An interdisciplinary symposium, a day of sound,geology, film, archaeology, architecture, literature, music and rainfall with Paul Whitty, Guy Sherwin, John Levack Drever, Michael Welland, Nick Thorpe, Karen Fielder, Ian Rawes, Sally Ann McIntyreand Sebastiane Hegarty. 17 October Winchester Discovery Cen...

  Rembetika concert, performed at the Blue Lamp in Aberdeen, organised by the Hellenic Scottish Society, in April 2014. Filmed by Athanasios Barmpalexis. Many thanks to the musicians, film-maker and The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen Vocals:Labrini GiotiBouzouki/Vocals:George TsimbouksisGuitar/Vocals: Nikos Sariyiannis 1) 1:0...

South American musician returns to his Irish roots to merge Latin America with Ireland. January ’12: Clare native musicians, Paddy Mulcahy and Tessa O’Connor  led a tour of South American and traditional Irish music entitled “Los Paddy de las Pampas” around South America. While there, the “Los Paddy"  tour brought them through Argentina,...

Ask the question " What Do Musicologists Do All Day?" and you'll get some very humorous answers! But here's an interesting bit of research which has attempted to get a serious answer! https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~wieri103/presentations/WDMDAD-IAML-IMS.pdf I filled out this survey some months ago, and yesterday (22nd June) it was jus...

For Kurdish Alevis, music serves as a mode of articulating andtransmitting ideas about collective history, identity, and connectionsto the geography of former homes in the countryside of Anatolia. Ourguest in Ottoman History Podcast Episode #187, Dr. Ozan Aksoy, hasexplored this crucial role of music within the Alevi community from avariety of angl...