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A festival for all who enjoy traditional music.

Part of Peterhead Scottish Week

'A Fieldworker's Vision: Researching the Present' Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference Aberdeen (FEECA) Hosted by the Elphinstone Institute and co-sponsored by the Folklore Society. FEECA aims to bring together graduate, postgraduate students, and early-career researchers in these fields to strengthen relations between relevant scholars and institutions in the UK and around the world. This...

Join renowned Tarland fiddler Paul Anderson and Friends for a wonderful night of traditional music celebrating the traditional fiddle playing of the North-East of Scotland. This event follows an afternoon event, the NAFCO AHRC Workshop on Memory which will be streamed online with participants from the United States, Canada, Sweden, Lithuania, Hong...

Online streaming link: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/nafco/live-stream/ This is a free online event for artists, scholars, researchers, teachers, and practitioners with an interest in fiddle and dance studies. Session 1 – Keynote Address: David C. Rubin, Juanita M. Kreps Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, ‘The Role of Memory...

Elphinstone Institute Ethnographic Film Series - Special Event

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

The winner of the Toulmin Prize 2016 is Mary Leith from Kintore, with her story Duck Number 38. Mary received her award at the May Festival, at a special event, 'The Toulmin Celebration and Short Story Prize on Sunday 29 May, where her entry was read aloud to the audience...

The Elphinstone Institute is hosting a number of events over the May Festival weekend at the University of Aberdeen, 27-29 May 2016. With Storytelling, the Polish-Scottish Singing Group, and The Toulmin Prize, and also displays of Boatbuilding with youngsters from Banff Academy, and Elaine Lindsay's straw work, and an event Celebrating...

With the meteoric rise in popularity of commercialised, 'package' hen nights, pre-nuptial rituals for women in the North of Scotland have undergone a massive change in the past thirty years.