Laura Kayes

Hello, Karen. Ah, I'm delighted to have provided a wee reminder ☺️ I hope it's a brilliant class!

11.03.2025 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A folk song to share with your teens next time they refuse to wrap up warm in these cold snaps.

Frozen Charlotte, inspired by the poem Fair Charlotte, laments the true story of a young woman in 1840 who, reluctant to cover her gown, froze on her way to a ball.

youtu.be/wbzNvcjGSKo

11.03.2025 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Da Slockit Light: Part 2

08.02.2025 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Da Slockit Light: Part 1

A beautiful tune by Shetland fiddler Tom Anderson on the gradual depopulation of his home in Eshaness.

With every crofter that left, another light in the community was extinguished (slockit).

#Fiddle #Scotland #Shetland #TradMusic

08.02.2025 11:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

One joy of visiting new sessions is picking up new (to me) tunes.

I heard this tune for the first time in the Royal Bar, Innellan, on Thursday night and just had to get it under the fingers.

Tune: McKechnie's Farewell
Composer: John Somerville

#Fiddle #FolkMusic #ScottishFolk #Trad #Scotland

18.01.2025 11:40 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

One joy of visiting new sessions is picking up new (to me) tunes.

I heard this tune for the first time in the Royal Bar, Innellan, on Thursday night and just had to get it under the fingers.

Tune: McKechnie's Farewell
Composer: John Somerville

#Fiddle #FolkMusic #ScottishFolk #Trad #Scotland

18.01.2025 11:40 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A view from my doorstep over the Firth of Clyde. Pink clouds are scattered across a blue and orange sky.

A view from my doorstep over the Firth of Clyde two hours later. The bright sun is central, with blue sky above and a yellow glow beneath.

A view from my doorstep over the Firth of Clyde. Pink clouds are scattered across a blue and orange sky. The whole scene glows a warm pinkish, orange hue.

A view from my doorstep over the Firth of Clyde. The sun shines in the centre and blue sky is bright overhead.

8:00am and 10:00am from my doorstep on Scotland's west coast 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#Scotland #ArgyllPeninsula #ArgyllAndBute #FirthOfClyde #Sunrise

16.01.2025 13:09 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dreich days in the Christmas to New Year limbo were perfect for learning some new tunes 🎻

Calliope House, Dave Richardson

#Fiddle #TradMusic #CelticMusic

03.01.2025 10:22 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Dreich days in the Christmas to New Year limbo were perfect for learning some new tunes 🎻

Calliope House, Dave Richardson

#Fiddle #TradMusic #CelticMusic

03.01.2025 10:22 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Open Call for Bothy Project Creative Residencies on Eigg. For practitioners in visual art, craft & design, music, literature, performance & those working across disciplines or in collaboration.
Application deadline: 12 January 2025, midnight. More info at buff.ly/4fZxM2M

04.12.2024 23:41 — 👍 72    🔁 45    💬 3    📌 3

Elon Musk Is Opening a School for Young Students. Here’s What We Know About It The tech billionaire has claimed that the current Education Department is "basically paying people to hate America."

Every. Damn. Time.

The business bros ALWAYS do this. Because hey, if you've built a billion-dollar company how hard it is to run a school?

Nb: they almost always fail. 🙄

www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

02.12.2024 12:21 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Day 1: I'm an FE practitioner interested in heritage culture and folk knowledge. 🎻🧗🏻‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My research presents a Foucauldian critical discourse analysis of the Education Inspection Framework through a class lens and explores how colleges and practitioners interpret and enact policy. #ResearchAdvent 🎄

01.12.2024 09:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watch William Letford read “This is it” at the 2017 Literature Alliance Scotland cabaret:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRG...

27.11.2024 12:11 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

“I had publishers who said this is written in slang, it has spelling mistakes and if you change the style, then we would be interested. I told them absolutely not. This is the way I speak, the way that school kids speak. I wanted it to be authentic. It just couldn’t be written any other way.” 👏🏼

27.11.2024 13:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0