@monsgraupius.bsky.social
Scottish musician & musicologist. https://monsgraupius.org/biography • Concert giver. Archive seeker. • Founder, Grieg Society of Scotland. https://griegsocietyscotland.org/blog • Vice-chair, Norwegian Scottish Association.
Interior of the Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen, with organ pipes and piano framed by atmospheric stage lighting.
Bubblyjock Collective and Dr Sally Garden backstage at the Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen.
Good to be back on the platform of Aberdeen's wonderful Cowdray Hall, and great to assist the brilliant Bubblyjock Collective with my pre-concert talk on opera singer and 'granite city' quine extraordinaire, Mary Garden.
16.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Kernow Kensa! Will the new concert hall have 'prapper' Cornish name, or another anglicisation? Asking for a concerned Cousin Jack.
19.09.2025 07:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'Waverley'! Someone hasn't read their Walter Scott.
16.09.2025 19:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your link to the survey doesn't work.
26.08.2025 18:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even a few musical crumbs are exciting to me 😅 Thank you! Hope the lost thesis is soon found,
11.08.2025 23:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great topic! Any mention of music in the mortifications?
11.08.2025 20:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you! That's very interesting. 👍
27.07.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of the old Inverurie fiddle researched and played by Dr Sally Garden.
Solving the mystery of 'the old Inverurie fiddle' and its origins. Who made it? And why? How my research uncovered a story of community life and personal tragedy in nineteenth century north east Scotland.
See and hear the lightly restored fiddle in my article here:
monsgraupius.org/inverurie-pl...
So, no email confirmation of response submitted. This feels like another useless attempt at 'consultation'. Meanwhile tenants are being evicted. Lives turned upside down. What happened to the noble aspiration of 'land reform'?
22.07.2025 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Musical and mechanical skills cultivating the best in us. The sense of wonder and achievement, respect and humility. The sense of our own humanity. All will be lost to a generation fed on AI. (And all the more reason for my continued research into our forgotten Scots musicians and composers!).
27.06.2025 04:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh.
Singer-pianist Sally Garden visiting the birthplace of compatriot composer, Helen Hopekirk.
Helen Hopekirk plaque above the door of her Portobello home.
Ceilidh venue, Edinburgh, with light pouring in from old kirk windows to the dance floor.
Helen Hopekirk keeping me company in challenging times. Gave two more of her Scots songs at this cool ceilidh venue just a couple of miles (as the corbie flies!) from her Portobello birthplace. Spot concluded with big cheer and barking dog. Good to have the critics on board! 😅
22.06.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What does it mean to celebrate Norway's national day in Scotland's capital city? See and enjoy it from my perspective as Vice-chair of the Norwegian Scottish Association and musician for the celebrations later in the day.
Syng med, hvis du vil!
Sally Garden in Norwegian national costume in holding her fiddle and bow in the air amidst spring green trees.
Gratulerer med dagen! Every year I'm privileged to wear bunad and play for Norway's national day celebrations in Scotland's capital city. Have a happy 17th May dear Norwegian friends wherever you are! 🇳🇴🏴😍 #17mai #skottland
17.05.2025 11:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have often wondered why my mother, a pre-NHS registered Scottish nurse, was so keen her family should be musical. Just look at this piano right in the heart of the ward! No distressing electronic beeps and alarms, just music for the solace of the soul...
#InternationalNursesDay
Does this advocacy extend to independent scholars, and those working at the grassroots in our communities?
09.05.2025 16:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scots song is full of poignant farewells and partings. Facing my own farewell to a landscape I love, I turned to Scots composer Helen Hopekirk whose arrangement of one of our old airs 'Adieu Dundee' best expressed my feelings.
04.05.2025 19:12 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Aye aye, fit like? Affa gweed tae spy ye here!
15.04.2025 00:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Very distant. Our folks were all farming & crofting in Buchan and Aberdeenshire.
Welcome Blueskyer! 😍
Join me tonight at the Royal Norwegian Consulate, Edinburgh.
01.04.2025 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fresh in the footsteps of Norwegian singer, diarist & composer's wife, Nina Grieg. Join Dr Sally Garden at the Royal Norwegian Consulate, 12 Rutland Place, Edinburgh, for this evening talk on 01 April at 7 for 7:30pm
Photo of singer and composer's wife Nina Grieg, the subject of a talk by Dr Sally Garden of the Grieg Society of Scotland.
Join me in Edinburgh at the Royal Norwegian Consulate when I discuss my decipherings of the tiny 'dagbok' of singer and composer's wife Nina Grieg, and share a short film preview for @griegscotland.bsky.social
All welcome, 12 Rutland Place, £3 at door, plus coffee & chat!
Fresh in the footsteps of Norwegian singer, diarist & composer's wife, Nina Grieg. Join Dr Sally Garden at the Royal Norwegian Consulate, 12 Rutland Place, Edinburgh, for this evening talk on 01 April at 7 for 7:30pm
Photo of singer and composer's wife Nina Grieg, the subject of a talk by Dr Sally Garden of the Grieg Society of Scotland.
Join me in Edinburgh at the Royal Norwegian Consulate when I discuss my decipherings of the tiny 'dagbok' of singer and composer's wife Nina Grieg, and share a short film preview for @griegscotland.bsky.social
All welcome, 12 Rutland Place, £3 at door, plus coffee & chat!
'The truth we seek'. Inspired choice of theme for EIF 2025.
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Consummate rhetoric. This. At last. youtube.com/watch?v=wmDV...
06.03.2025 08:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Normalising tyranny won't make it go away. This event hands a diplomatic coup to the architects of a coup. In the name of decency, please cancel.
04.03.2025 09:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI affects all musicians, and without robust legislation, will continue its brutal assail on all sectors from classroom to concert hall. Relieved my professional body is making a stand. Guidance here open to all:
www.ism.org/news/ai-copy...
Lovely to see this interesting and nicely bowed version of 'Catherine Ogie', a fine tune popular in Scotland since the late C17. Thank you!
17.02.2025 04:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the most important things we can do for each other in society is to keep socialising and keep learning, which is why I keep up my voluntary work.
Come along if you're in Auld Reekie tonight. You might even find me serving waffles 😅
Velkommen! @rakelrank.bsky.social
04.02.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Translator Dr Rachel Rankin
Invitation to Norwegian Scottish Association event in Edinburgh
Tonight, Edinburgh, all welcome!
The Norwegian Scottish Association presents a wee linguistic feast with skilled Scots translator Dr Rachel Rankin. Venue: Royal Norwegian Consulate, 12 Rutland Square, Edinburgh. (£3 at door including 'hjembakt' waffles!) 😉
Psalm 114. But whether here by Peebles I know not. Tantalising glimpse of Scottish practicality!
www.diamm.ac.uk/compositions...
