Fun for all the family! Barshaw Gala Day returns to Barshaw Park in Paisley. Come along for a day of free family fun. Barshaw Gala Day returns to Barshaw Park, Paisley, this year with a new site layout! You’ll see 34 diverse stalls, four food vendors, a stage programmed by Paisley Radio, and an amazing host of free family-friendly activities – you won’t want to miss this! This year, we are excited to partner with a local radio station, […]
Sections of the M8 and M9 motorways will be closed overnight later this month as SP Energy Networks completes a £4 million project to reinforce the local electricity network. The reinforcement project, which is nearing completion, saw the installation of a new underground cable – almost 4km long – to replace existing overhead lines that run across the M8 motorway. With the new cable in place, the overhead lines can now be removed. To ensure the works can be carried […]
Scotland’s biggest night of traditional music Hoolie in the Hydro will celebrate Glasgow comedy and folk music legend Sir Billy Connolly in larger-than-life style later this year, it has been announced. Hoolie in the Hydro: The Big Yin will take place in the city’s biggest venue, the OVO Hydro, on Saturday 13th December, as a ‘windswept and interesting’ cast of musicians pay tribute to Billy, his humour and his love and affinity for folk music. The Billy Connolly Tribute will form the finale of the spectacular […]
The whole point of digital music is the risk-free grazing" Cory Doctorow, Canadian journalist and co-editor and of the off-beat blog Boing Boing, is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. Doctorow and others continue to write prolifically about the apocalyptic changes facing Intellectual Property in general and the music industry in […]
Price, 57, has played music nearly her whole life, starting with piano when she was five years old. But in the fall of 2009, the guitar was still something of mystery to her. She had been playing for only a couple of months and was struggling a bit with the new challenges. Yet, instead of holing up in her living room to practice until she felt more confident, she did something totally unexpected: she packed up her guitar and sheet […]
Music is a form of art that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is normally expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture). Music may also involve complex generative forms in time through the construction of patterns and combinations of natural stimuli, principally sound. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, communicative, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The […]