First established in Scotland in the 1870s, civilian Scottish Pipe Bands are now a global
intergenerational phenomenon. In Canada, they are a diasporic reminder of the 70,000 …

This thesis investigates the potential role of Celtic traditional music and dance (CTMD)
cultures in creating more resilient, embedded, and sustainable societies and economies. It …

Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish
dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from …

Focusing on elements and motifs in 'The Blackbird'set dance performed by Siamsa Tíre, The
National Folk Theatre of Ireland, and their reoccurrence in subsequent choreography, this …

Interaction between the local and the global, and the implications of these interactions for
tradition, are a recurring feature of scholarship and activity in Irish traditional music and the …