Award-winning Scots singer Iona Fyfe warns SNP not to 'lose sight' of value of Scottish culture scotsman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scotsman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“I live amongst beautiful rolling hills with an abundance of wildlife. This was just accentuated during lockdown in March, because it made me feel grateful to have it on my doorstep when we were all so suddenly restricted to our local area.
Tolley licenced ‘Beneath the Surface’ for an aerial film of East Lothian, selected very deliberately because it was seen to be a calming piece of music There’s an enormous amount of this landscape, wildlife and weather in Home. In fact I’d say that the whole album is inspired by where I live. Tolley’s first foray into contemporary classical music - the style for which he is now largely known - took place in 2018 with the album Beneath the Surface, after his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Priti Patel s immigration crackdown reportedly clashed with the EU s offer of visa-free travel for musicians BORIS Johnson’s government is guilty of inflicting an “unforgivable” blow on Scotland’s cultural life, according to the SNP. In a move labelled “disgraceful and shameful” by Pete Wishart MP, the Tories in London rejected an offer of visa-free travel across the EU for touring musicians, as they did not want to extend the same courtesy to EU artists visiting the UK. The EU ordinarily offers this arrangement as “standard” in its trade deals with countries, according to reports in the Independent, and countries including the US and Saudi Arabia take advantage of it.