Very topical song from @deanowens1.bsky.social as he heads into his official showcase at @folk-alliance.bsky.social tonight. Face the Storm (the Buffalo) #Folk2026 #RiseUp #StormFern open.spotify.com/track/1TaXQ4...

@folk-alliance.bsky.social #NewOrleans youtube.com/shorts/Ficq9...

Can’t wait to head to New Orleans for @folk-alliance.bsky.social in a few weeks with my right hand man from The Sinners, Craig Ross. Exciting times 🤩

Christmas in #Amsterdam. 😃😍 #FestivalofLight just beautiful

An alternative #Christmas #Spotify Playlist compiled by #Scottish singer songwriter @deanowens1.bsky.social - Dean & Alfie's Christmas Crackers! Enjoy. Happy Christmas everyone 🎄🎅🥂 open.spotify.com/playlist/4hX...

Lovely to have our #Glasgow crowd in such good voice, in honour of Raul Malo ❤️

Today 3pm est til Midnight thedailyripple.org/index.php/ri...

Check this out @americanauk.bsky.social @deanowens1.bsky.social Go Dean! 5 times in a row (and the only UK artist listed in the other categories! #BestUKArtist

Local café owner to donate Christmas Eve takings to charity The owner of Bliss House Café, Meadowbank, Fadi Bacheet, is spreading festive cheer this Christmas by pledging an entire day’s takings on 24 December to NHS Lothian Charity’s Secret Santa Appeal. The appeal helps to bring comfort and joy…

Dear #IndyClan Every little we can spare is worth it. Love, Me.

So good to play in #Glasgow again at the lovely @thegladcafe.bsky.social - such a great crowd ❤️ Next up is Mon 15th at @pleasance.co.uk #Edinburgh. Last show of 2025 - our annual @soundhouse.org.uk extravaganza! Just a few tix left...

Americana UK's obituary for americana lynchpin @raulmal01 of @MavericksMusic who created a lot of great music during his 60 years of life

Can't wait to see @deanowens1.bsky.social Dean Owens & The Sinners at The Glad Cafe in #Glasgow tonight. A smidge of tickets left! But the big question... will it be raining?!! (And will this be in the set list??) 🌦️☔🌂🌈🎶 youtu.be/6Y1NlXS84ew?...

Rachel Duns Quintet 💥Playing in Edinburgh to chase away the chill! With her roots in jazz, Duns’ influences range from blues and soul to the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s. Expect powerful tenor sax sound and dreamy vocals. 📆 Sun 30 Nov, 6:30PM 🎟️ www.soundhousewinterfest.com/programme-1/...

Cheers, we’ve reached the £5k milestone for our 'Glimmers' target in just 5 days!! Thank you all so much, from me and The Sinners 🙏🏻❤️ Still a way to go - I'd really appreciate it if you can continue to share and check out the cool rewards ✨ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/glimmers-d...

Released on this day in 1977: Watching The Detectives #ElvisCostello youtu.be/snPDoXl9ZPs?si…

Released on this day in 1985: The Whole Of The Moon #TheWaterboys youtu.be/sBW8Vnp8BzU?si…

Glasgow Americana kicked off tonight with an opening (album launch) concert by Kirsten Adamson - read all about the festival in our latest MNs GIGguide @ www.yumpu.com/en/document/...

Here’s Deacon Blue’s Ricky Ross on Arbroath fish suppers, his love for the Isle of Harris, and his Seinfeld habit. Small Acts of Love, the play for which he created the music, is at the newly reopened Citizens Theatre in Glasgow now. In print in Times Scotland 20/9. www.thetimes.com/article/61c3...

It was my mission for many years to see a herd of buffalo in America & I was lucky enough to realise that in S Dakota on tour a few years back. There is something about them that moves me. You could call it my spiritual animal. #SpiritRidge #FaceTheStorm open.spotify.com/track/1TaXQ4...

Rolling into Nashville this Monday. Tickets here: www.ticketweb.com/event/the-wa... #TheWaterboys #Nashville

Where could I possibly be? 🎻 ⛪️ 🎶 🌙 💫

My friend @grantleephillips.bsky.social has a new album out and it’s a thing of beauty. A collection of songs that are perfect for these dark times. Do yourself a favour and check it out. You’ll be glad you did. Here’s a taster: youtu.be/oE6RbHEw_Fk

"The atmosphere there, the space, the history in the walls… it felt like the music was already there, ready to be picked up" Thanks Music Traveler for this feature about the places that have inspired me. From Leith & full circle to the hills of Emilia-Romagne where Spirit Ridge was recorded. 🌄

L.A. HERE WE COME...a feature film in 43 seconds starring The Waterboys. Turn up the volume! Tx for the show: www.ticketmaster.com/the-waterboy...

New #YouTube release! The imagery in Compañera was inspired by visiting the #SinnersShrine, & by trips to Italy with my wife. I love beautiful old churches and places of worship. There’s a peace in these places. ⛪🕯️ Just me and my guitar, recorded on my last USA Tour youtu.be/QE-3mh7ZVGw?...

'Sounds of Scotland' with @scaryb.bsky.social Promotions ends its run Sat 30 in Spiegeltent in Edinburgh's St Andrew's Square, when Liz Jones & Broken Windows play - read all about it in our GIGfocus spot in the latest MNS GIGguide @ www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/70722215/mns-gigguide-aug25-26/16

Wow!!

In case you were wondering, the final number of Fringe shows was 3893 (highest total on record & 147 up on 2024). At least 50 more theatre productions were on this year. The no of venues rose from 262 to 301 year-on-year. Storm Floris led to the cancellation of 138 performances.

Lovely to hear 'Man from Leith' featured as @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Vinyl Pick on Grant Stott's #VinylCollective 🙏 #VinylIsBest www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Listen here 👇

Let's Go Round Again - fabulous 10 piece Edinburgh #FUNK collective, James Brown Is Annie, return to The Famous Spiegeltent, St Andrew Sq, #Edinburgh. Tonight, 9.30pm. Come along and be funky! (Tickets on the door)

Link to MNS GIGguide, on cover Scottish Ensemble (series of concerts coming) more in GIGspotlight p15. Also GIGfocus p16 'Sounds of Scotland' in Edinburgh Spiegeltent by @scaryb.bsky.social These + gig listings incl music on radio + TV @ www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/70722215/mns-gigguide-aug25-26

Northern Ireland Music Prize, The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award + @welshmusicprize.bsky.social .bsky.social have joined forces to support artists + strengthen our music sectors through cultural exchange + collaboration.

Finishing @ Edin Fringe today is Deiseil: Dancing in Time feat Amy Geddes on fiddle, a journey across centuries of tradition told through fiddle, feet, Gaelic song and story, in an immersive performance - read about it in MNS @ www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/70709071/mns-aug25-15/18

Finishing run at Fringe is Falkirk band Beldon Haigh's musical 'Dystopia: The Rock Opera' it started life as a gig but evolved into a full scale big theatrical experience with epic songs, bold storytelling + raucous power ballads. Read in MNS @ www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/70709071/mns-aug25-15/18

The wonderful Su-a Lee was kind enough to record this short video about what we do, as a reminder that we've recently launched the Soundhouse Fund 💕🎶 "It's just been a pure lifeline for so many of us where venues have been scarce..." You can donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-soundh... (1/2)

Thanks @scaryb.bsky.social for sharing 🐘 Take time to read this article if you can. Some hope amongst the chaos.

It may be the best attended - year after year - but it isn’t close to being the best funded. Almost every aspect of the Edinburgh Festival is under-funded. Support for new artists and performers is particularly grim. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2537410...

In amongst all the crazy, stupid, destructive things humans do, every now and then there's a story that's a beacon of hope that some people are still #kind, and doing amazing things. Thanks @theguardian.com for this article - a #woman and #elephants in #Thailand www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Great service' report for #DeanOwens online shop - see for yourself at www.deanowens.com/shop

Remembering Arthur Lee March 7, 1945 - August 3, 2006 Arthur Taylor Lee (born Arthur Porter Taylor; March 7, 1945 – August 3, 2006) was an American musician, singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band Love.

Now live on the #FallenAngel Facebook page, The Fallen Angel Silent Auction Fundraiser. Let the bidding begin. www.facebook.com/share/14Evdc...

'My Beloved Hills' from my latest album #SpiritRidge - recorded at Crinale Studio, a 400 year old farmhouse in the hills of the Emilia-Romagna, Italy 🇮🇹 Listen to the full track deanowens.bandcamp.com/track/my-bel... #BandcampFriday is a good day to add to your collection 😊

Already underway Famous Spiegeltent + @scaryb.bsky.social Morag Neil's Scary Biscuits Promotions host 'Sounds of Scotland' during Edinburgh's Fringe festival - read all about the fantastic line-up in recent MNS FESTIVALS! edition @ www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/70632852/mns-festivals-jul25-2/13

RIP the King of the Accordion 🪗 Flaco Jimenez Memories of some great gigs in London in the 80’s 🥲

Hey @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Only a week to go until this one at @edfringe.bsky.social See you later on in the month mate 😉 Tickets: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2667/...

Top of my @edfringe.bsky.social list...🧡

This was a fun interview with @overourwall.bsky.social 😊

TONIGHT! Adam Holmes + special guests Duncan Lyall and Jen Austin, at The Famous Spiegelten #Edinburgh. Tickets: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2665/... #EdFringe #music #folk This is Adam's tribute to his home town in all its diverse, messy, festival glory! Intro by Ian Rankin youtu.be/0kSm-9tQIjM?...

NEWSLETTER! 👀🎪☀️ Summer Greetings from Hummingbird Towers Latest gig news (with a special deal for newsletter subscribers 😉), @edfringe.bsky.social with the #Sinners, songwriting, reading, news from the garden and a look back at #SpiritRidge Read it here 👇🏻 mailchi.mp/49dc35a4fdae...