Folk musician and former BBC Scotland presenter Archie Fisher has died at the age of 86. The singer, songwriter and guitarist had presented BBC Radio Scotland's Travelling Folk from 1983 to 2010.

Fisher started playing in the early sixties and soon occupied the burgeoning folk scene within Edinburgh. His initial solo ...

Archie Fisher, Scottish folk singer, songwriter, guitar player, and long-time presenter on BBC Radio Scotland, has died at the age of 86 on 1 November 2025.

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We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

Keith McIvor, also known as JD Twitch, died in September after being diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour.

Formed in the spring of 2000, SGQ have toured extensively throughout the UK and Ireland and will be embarking upon their first foray into Germany in the autumn of 2005. Inspired by Celtic, Modern, ...

It has been said that the difference between a fiddle and a violin is the player, so no one likely expected classical violinists to dominate the lively Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra — and they would have ...