Iona Fyfe

Blog | GUEST POST: IWD 2026 – Iona Fyfe on meaningful change in music Read our guest blog from Aberdeenshire folk singer Iona Fyfe

Read Aberdeenshire folk singer @ionafyfe.bsky.social on meaningful change for women in music, as part of our #internationalwomensday blog series:

https://bit.ly/4u6OBk3

Inst@ live around 8:30pm with my trio live in Germany for the Irish Spring tour 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇮🇪 Tune in! ♥️ If you like Scottish, Irish, Celtic music, come on doon.

www.instagram.com/iona.fyfe

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My Scots language Mithers Day cairds are on sale now 🌸 Celebrate yer maw and dae it in Scots 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Get em here → bit.ly/4hC4isi

Tonight’s fit check 💃 Irish Spring tour in Germany continues in Karlsruhe.

🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪→ ionafyfe.com/tour

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Tonight in Bad Bergzaben, I’ll wear the Rhineland-Palatinate and Scotland badge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Irish Spring tour continues...

🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪→ ionafyfe.com/tour

Even if you don't support the Greens, it's a very positive step that a left leaning working class women with a trade in plumbing can become a parliamentarian.

Today is #SayAGaelicPhraseDay! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 My phrase is very fitting today… 😴

#LàAbairtNaGàidhlig #WorldGaelicWeek #SeachdainNaGàidhlig

Alan Cumming is a national treasure x

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Is this the first time in a 500 year history when the Rector of the University has walked in the Aberdeen University Charity Fashion Show? I think so. 💃

Huge congrats to the committee and volunteers for pulling it all together raising funds for Grampian Women’s Aid and Men In Mind Aberdeen.

I need Peter Morgan to create just one more season of The Crown. Thanks.

Think it may be time to #AbolishTheMonarchy?

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I am Somebody.

RIP Rev Jesse Jackson

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This is what 2am looks like when you’re unsure whether or not your CD’s will arrive in Germany in time for tour or not. 💿🇩🇪😱

If yer interested in the trials and tribulations of a Scottish folksinger in Germany, gies a follae ower on the photae place ♥️ www.instagram.com/iona.fyfe

Client: “We’d like a singer/pianist to play at our wedding and provide their own sound system. How much?

Me: “Sure, here’s a quote”

*tumbleweed*

Do people just not appreciate the skill, level, and investment that musicians make to become pro?

In other news, ceremony wedding bookings open. 💍

Ye kain whit else is a distraction? Haen tae sack yer US Ambassador because he was involved wae a nonce. Yer Scottish party leader cawin fur you tae resign. And a Lord losing the party whip cause he was involved wae anither nonce. But aye, you pop aff aboot the constitution Keir xxx

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Scots language folks! OOR VYCE! The campaign for a Scots Language Act and holding the ScotGov to account on provisions is having its AGM on Thursday 19th at 19:30 GMT on Zoom. Open to all. Looking for new committee members too! Mail chair@oorvyce.scot to RSVP 📩

@oorvyce.bsky.social

Happy Valentines Day ♥️🌹 Robert Burns wrote the song in 1794 based on traditional sources. Burns sent the song to James Johnson, who created The Scots Musical Museum with the note: The tune of this song is in Niel Gow’s first collection and is there called Major Graham” .

Michael Biggins on piano 🎹

Can social media resurrect the Scots language? Inside the decidedly modern campaign to revitalize a lost language (that some say isn’t truly a language).

Look Mammy, ah’m in National Geographic!
An affa interesting read…

You’ve got until 4pm to order your Scots language Valentine’s Day card to be in with a fighting chance of it being delivered in time 🌹 Order here → bit.ly/4bwVuo8

I cannot explain how wild it is to describe to folks from sunny places like Miami that I come from a region that had an 18-day consecutive streak of rain pishing doon and nae sun. No wonder we’re aw miserable x

I designed this Scots language Valentine’s Day caird ❤️✨ Why no gie yer lover a unique Scottish card and support an independent musician in their guest to diversify their income? Win win!

🌹Order here → bit.ly/4bwVuo8

Iona Fyfe

Scottish folksongs anyone? open.spotify.com/artist/6LpOS...

An act of sleekit poorly judged opportunism wrapped up in the guise of patriotism. No word about the girls. No word about victims.

Your Party Scotland has voted to officially become a pro-independence party. Fair enough. But is there chance this will split the pro-Indy vote? Is this just opportunism given that the UK Labour gov is mired in scandal and is falling apart?

A photo of Iona with the text 'Lairn A Scots Sang with Iona' and the Patreon logo

Fancy learning Scots Songs at your own pace with a host of resources? I'm building a Scots Song lesson library on Patreon. For £5 per month, you can access a wheen of songs that are already up, and gain entry to my online workshops when they happen.

www.patreon.com/c/ionafyfe/m...

Red card with photo of tap that says “I love ye Mair than Scottish tap water. Be ma valentine?”

Want a unique Scots language Valentines Day card? 🌹I've got ye sorted. Order here → bit.ly/4bwVuo8

An insightful evening attending an in conversation event with Deputy First Minister @kateforbes.bsky.social and journalist @frasernelson.bsky.social hosted by the @johnsmithcentre.com at the University of Glasgow.

It’s so positive to see healthy discussion, debate and of course, disagreement. ✨

Today is the day! BBC Young Trad live from City Halls in Glasgow as part of Celtic Connections ✨ For world listeners, Tune in at 17:05 GMT. 🌍

📻 BBC Radio Scotland
📺 BBC ALBA

Watch → bbc.in/4tagIi3

Today is the day! BBC Young Trad live from City Halls in Glasgow as part of Celtic Connections ✨ For world listeners, Tune in at 17:05 GMT. 🌍

📻 BBC Radio Scotland
📺 BBC ALBA

Watch → bbc.in/4tagIi3

YouTube video by ScotsHoose Yaldi The Braes o Balquhidder subtitles

Listen to @ionafyfe.bsky.social sing Robert Tannahill’s “The Braes o Balquhidder” here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4am...