by Gordon Mackay | Oct 1, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - Music / Culture
I wis born and broucht up in Tornaveen in rural Aiberdeenshie, wi parents fae Buchan wi i doric aye being spoken and encourged tae use it. Nooadays I sing sangs that tell i stories o i North East and beyond in Doric and Scots, It a vital pairt o the culture and...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 21, 2020 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture
Back in 2006 a group of local North East musicians formed a band and called themselves Bratach Bana, a name suggested to them by the popular Scottish singer Fiona Kennedy, named after a song made famous by her late father Calum Kennedy many years before. So far so...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 5, 2020 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
I’m relatively new to following Jill, but I’m fair enjoying it. I’d hate wir heritage to disappear as I love the Doric and I dabble in writing Doric poems. I wrote a wee booklet a lang time ago caad “Smile a Fyle” which I sold and split...
by Gordon Mackay | Aug 10, 2020 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture
Doric Future work hard at promoting the Doric Culture where ever it can, our Doric TV episode shown on the 9th of July was of Fraserburgh singer Alan Reid (Thr Doric Min), our video went viral andwas picked up by the Press and Journal who ran this wonderful article on...
by Gordon Mackay | Aug 7, 2020 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
As the world becomes ever more generic, indigenous and minority languages, dialects and cultures struggle to survive. Language is built on not only what is spoken but what is unspoken; the richness of the social structure, climate, landscape, industry and many other...
by Gordon Mackay | Jul 26, 2020 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
Looking for something different from your luthier?If you are looking for a Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Fender, PRS look-alike, this is not the place to be, these guys do their thing with all the tradition expertise skill and panache that years of manufacturing have...
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