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Aye! Schlafly Tap Room celebrates all things Scottish on poet Robert Burns' birthday

What do bagpipes and poetry have to do with organ meats from sheep? Burns Night is the answer, celebrating the "National Poet of Scotland" and Scottish culture with the sense ....

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Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues


With songs performed by Nona Hendryx
This event was originally scheduled to take place on 18 February.
This is an online event. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
The British Library and Faber Social present a celebration of Bessie Smith, pioneering blues singer and one of the biggest stars of the 1920s and 30s.
As a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, writer and poet Jackie Kay found in Bessie someone with whom she could identify and who she could idolise. Kay talks to award winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo about new her book on Bessie s life, which mixes enthralling biography with fiction, poetry and prose. ....

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Online talks with stars arranged for Winter Words Festival


Online talks with stars arranged for Winter Words Festival
Special guests include Mark Haddon, Neil Oliver and brothers Colin and Alan McCredie
The Winter Words Festival is usually held at Pitlochry Festival Theatre (Image: Duncan Clarke)
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