by Gordon Mackay | Sep 23, 2021 | Doric Blog, Doric Blog - Music / Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
As a bairn growing up in Peterheid, I didna realise that ivryday I was making and gaithering memories that wid come back to serve me well in the years aheid. My folk worked in the fishing yards with my father being a cooper and mother working at the gutting. My three...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 7, 2021 | Doric Blog, Doric Blog - Music / Culture
Singer /Songwriter, Elphen – Ellen Bain from Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, shares some of her unique songwriting with Doric TV. Through difficult times in her life, Ellen has turned her attention to expressing her emotions through words and song. Little Bird was...
by Gordon Mackay | May 3, 2021 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture
Over the months Doric TV have come across some very special people who do extraordinary things. We Proudly present Katie and James of Aye Tunes, who present their unique presentation of Doric. Fit Like?! Katie and James here from Aye Tunes! Aye Tunes are bringing...
by Gordon Mackay | May 1, 2021 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture
‘I’m awfa happy that someone has done this amount o’ work for the Doric. I left Rosehearty in 1984 fan I was 20 and have lived a’ ower the island, fae Glaisga to London but I’m currently resident in Govan working as an archaeologist for the...
by Gordon Mackay | Apr 29, 2021 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture
Bothy Ballads Fit are Bothy Ballads, well they’re sangs about the wye o life on a ferm. Noo they wernae caad bothy ballads fin they were written, they were ballads that telt aboot life on the ferm and they date back till the early to mid 19th centrury. The North east...
by Gordon Mackay | Apr 12, 2021 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture, Doric Blog - RGU Students
Aiberdeen’s Music Scene Ower the years Aiberdeen has acted as a cultural hub for the North East of Scotland. Fae Annie Lennox tae the AECC, Aiberdeen is certainly familiar tae the music world, but the cultural history runs much deeper. In the city centre there are a...
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