Event Archive

2014

April

• "What is an Urban Legend?"

  29 April 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Musica Scotica Ninth Annual Conference

  26 - 27 April 2014

  The weekend will feature an informative programme of papers on many aspects of music and Scotland, in addition to a wine reception, a concert of Gaelic music, and a conference dinner.

March

• The "mouth" of the River Don: Metaphor in Names and Language

  25 March 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture

February

• Scots Herring Girls, 1900-1950: Oral History and Visual Narrative

  25 February 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

January

• Many a Step I've Travelled - 'S Iomadh Ceum a Shiubhail Mi: Macaronic Songs in Gaelic, Scots and English

  21 January 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

2013

November

• Scandinavian Singing Workshop

  29 November 2013

  An introduction to singing and herding calls from the north of Sweden.

• The Power of the Fiddle

  26 November 2013, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Open Evening

  07 November 2013, 18:00 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute

October

• Voicing Place: The Folk Voice in Modern Scotland

  29 October 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Never-Ending Tales

  27 October 2013, 19:00 - 20:45

  The Elphinstone Institute is proud to present an evening with the wonderful Aberdonian teller of tales, Tony Robertson. Descended from a long line of storytellers, Tony learned many stories traditional to travelling people from his father, Stanley Robertson, and others in his family. Tony’s remarkable storytelling style immediately draws in...