Had a conversation today about getting tuning forks through airport security… Apparently it’s fine, as long as you’re not carrying bad vibrations. #SoundHealing 🫠

Bergamo Baby! Counting the days with @milesbsn.bsky.social Recommendations welcome, although this is on the cards (see what I did there…) lacarrara.it/en/mostra/ta... 🃏

If you have a moment for quiet, these notes from Venice’s gardens might be worth a pause...And if you’ve spent time in Venice, I’d be so interested to hear about the quieter corners you’ve discovered there 🪴 Gardens Against the Water: notes from Venice. substack.com/@katyashman/...

open.substack.com/pub/katyashm... A short new piece about time, small hopes, and trees that don’t quite belong to anyone 🍏

I’d love to know if you have a plant from a cutting, or from gathered seed, that reminds you of someone else, or someone else’s garden – near or far away. This weeks short Substack: Gardens carry other people with them ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/katyashm...

I'll be there in spirit...always looks like a cosy evening in great company!

On St David’s Day I’m celebrating North Wales - land of myth, mist & memory. An Arthurian Odyssey - North Wales is my audio guide exploring Arthurian sites on the free @guidltours.bsky.social app. Download, search & begin. The first part is free. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus #StDavidsDay #Cymru

I’ve been writing for some time, very quietly. It feels good to have completed a manuscript and I felt that was worth sharing here. It’ll be out of my hands for a bit and I'm oddly calm about that. @milesbsn.bsky.social

Looked like a cracking night! Congrats! 🍺🎸

Two Italian cities. Two winter moments. One soundtrack. 🎭 Venice ❄️ Milan 🎧 Listen with @guidltours.bsky.social #Venice #Milan #MusicHistory #AudioTour #CulturalTravel #guidl with @milesbsn.bsky.social

In Milan for the Winter Olympics? ❄️🎶 Between competitions, explore the city at a gentler pace with our Musicians Walking Tour of Milan—an immersive audio walk through the places composers lived and worked across the centuries. Available on the @guidltours.bsky.social app.

In Venice for Carnival? 🎭 Go beyond the masks and discover the city’s musical past. Our Musicians Walking Tour of Venice is an immersive audio tour exploring where composers lived and worked through the centuries—available on the @guidltours.bsky.social app 🎶

#WinterOlympics2026 🎶🇮🇹🎶

💕 We’re sharing the love this weekend & giving you a short, free guidl by The Wandering Winds! @guidltours.bsky.social is a free app that hosts audio tours by brilliant creators about fascinating places, and it’s the perfect way to explore on the go, or from the comfort of your sofa... ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

💕 We've a beautiful collection of #Welsh love spoons at home in N Wales! We wanted to share a pic ahead of a new & 💕FREE💕 @guidltours.bsky.social release this weekend from me & @milesbsn.bsky.social 💌 A Love Letter To St Dwynwen 💌 is out soon & in time to celebrate her here in Cymru on 25th Jan!

Brighten a January Monday with a look at the @guidltours.bsky.social app 🎧 Choose a virtual getaway 🗺️ that can be enjoyed wherever you are! 🛋️ linktr.ee/guidltours?u...

Great to be letting loose and getting going on some composition again.

Sloe gin tonight from our Anglesey sloes 💫 Note the pine cone as a size reference for the glasses - they aren’t full sized wine glasses(honestly!?)! 👀

Half a day wasn't long enough to visit the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool...Whilst @milesbsn.bsky.social went ancestor spotting in the Maritime artworks & I made a run for the Impressionists Hall, we were really there for the 'Turner: Always Contemporary' Exhibition, which was entirely fascinating!

Keeping it ‘90s with the Wandering Winds Christmas Jaunt this year 🍾🎄

Mistletoe’s up 💚🌱

Morning all 🌅

Wordle 1,626 6/6 OK, so it’s going to be that kind of a Monday, is it? 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Remembering Maestro Monteverdi 🕯️

Wordle 1,624 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @milesbsn.bsky.social coming in with the winner there…although my usual starter word came good today…I’m just not a morning person ☕️🧠🦉

Feeling like the psychic reset button has been hit this weekend #SoundHealing 🙏

Happy St Cecilia's Day all musicians here - It's also an auspicious day because I've given my first Sound Healing today 🙏

On Tuesday, @milesbsn.bsky.social set off home from Milan at breakfast time, changed trains in Paris (with obligatory patisserie), changed again at Euston (via the Euston tap 🍺) & arrived back in Colwyn Bay around 11pm after his weekend at #VeniceNoir. Around 1,000 miles by train in one day! 🇮🇹🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

PA’ing to the Maestro…

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#TombTuesday Maen Y Bardd Burial Chamber stands high in the hills above the Conwy valley in #Wales. Maen y Bardd translates as “The Bard’s Stone” & legend has it that those brave enough to spend a night inside the chamber wake either as a poet or a madman! 3500BC #Archaeology

…Pete Robson closed the show with some brilliant Blues, accompanied onstage by Samantha Flounders. The next “Beats & Treats” will be on Friday 12th December 2025, at Laycock Cider Barn in Purse Caundle🎵🤶🏻🎄🎅🏻🎶 @katyashman.bsky.social

It’s Annuncio Mantovani 120 anniversario (Venetian born) and so here I am saying hello to another Maestro listening to J Strauss Jr from the house band drinking coffe at the bar

Celebrating Maestro Mantovani, born #OTD in Venice (nr San Simeon Grande) 120 yrs ago. A hugely pioneering & successful musician, whose music is now sadly glossed over & forgotten, but not my me & @milesbsn.bsky.social! 🎻🎶 🎻🎶 🎻🎶

Missing the sunshine already.

A surprise in the post today 🎁 and a first for @milesbsn.bsky.social and I… we need to brush up on our Sanskrit! #SoldMySoul 🎭

On Friday November 14 at 8pm, join Anna Mazzola, Lisa Hilton, Essie Fox, D.V. Bishop, Erin Kelly, Barbara Nadel, Tom Benjamin and Philip Gwynne Jones for an evening of Crime and Conversation at the beautiful Ca' di Dio hotel! Bookings and inquiries at [email protected]. #VeniceNoir

🎻#OTD 18 Oct 1706 BALDASSARE GALUPPI was born on Burano (Nr Venice) 🎭 One of the most loved composers of his day; known as the 'Father of Opera Buffa' although he contributed to several genres & deserves better recognition & more championing!🎧@guidltours.bsky.social with @milesbsn.bsky.social & me!

The ticket gods were also kind (sort of) to @milesbsn.bsky.social and I, today. Satyagraha is booked! www.operadeparis.fr/en/season-25...

I remember The Aqua Granda of 2019, not because we were there, but because it was just a couple of weeks before @milesbsn.bsky.social and mine's first visit... www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

#OTD in September 1984 Luigi Nono's 'Promoteo' premiered in Venice, restaged in 2024 commemorating 40 years since the premiere - do you know it? @milesbsn.bsky.social & I walk in Nono's footsteps on our #MusiciansWalkingTourOfVenice available with the free to download @guidltours.bsky.social app

I'm like a magpie drawn to this promise of 'stone beds and crystal-embedded structures that activate what the artist describes as “energy transmission!' Excited for this! @milesbsn.bsky.social www.gallerieaccademia.it/en/exhibitio...

Arnold Clover is back! A thrilling story about music, obsession and revenge……a literary labyrinth of mystery & Venetian delicacies. Bravo @davidhewson.com #VeniceBooks #Venice #Vivaldi #Casanova

#OTD September 1882, Richard Wagner & family arrived in Venice for the last time. We walk in his, & other composers' footsteps, in our fascinating #MusiciansWalkingTourOfVenice audio tour available in the #guidl app. Let @milesbsn.bsky.social & I transport you to Venice with @guidltours.bsky.social🎧

Born #OTD 18th August 1750, Antonio Salieri's music is often overlooked, although he paved the way for his successors who became more successful, and better remembered than him. The 1984 film Amadeus gives one side of his story...

Celebrating Legrenzi, baptised #OTD 12 August,1626. He moved to Venice where he was both prolific & influential & I love the conjecture that he might've taught the young Vivaldi! Although his sacred works have been more popular, his secular repertoire including several operas, is being rediscovered.

#NowSpinning this for the first time and my mind is well and truly blown off its tiny little rocker. Such extraordinary beauty of the plainest and most unassuming sort. The transparency is dumbfounding. Music-making of the highest genius.

Remembering Nicolò Coccon born #OTD in Venice. Not one of the most well remembered or celebrated Maestri di cappella at San Marco, but he was prominent in the musical life of Venice into the late 1890s. In 1903 at his funeral in San Trovaso, one of his own settings of the Requiem Mass was performed.

1/2 It's a 30th anniversary screening of #SenseAndSensibility this weekend. So while I'll be in the cinema having an inner dialogue with my younger self, and sighing over Winslet, Thompson, Grant, Rickman et al, I will patiently await the appearance of a hidden character in the film...