Amplified Scottish Music Centre

Composer Rūta Vitkauskaitė tells us about her latest project, Modern Chants, and the accompanying soundwalk. She also chooses a selection of tracks which have influenced her musical life and her work as a composer.

Find out more about Modern Chants here, and tickets for the soundwalk can be found here.

Music Choices:  1. Siberian Shamanic Singing (Stepanida Borisova - Summer)

2. Lithuanian sutartines (Žydėja rože - Ūtara)

3. Indian konakkol (Konakkol Ensemble - The Karnataka College of Percussion)

4. Scottish canntaireachd (The Stewarts of Blair)

5. Scottish Puirt-à-Beul (Julie Fowlis - Puirt-à-Beul set: Ribinnean Riomhach)

Rūta Vitkauskaitė

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Singer-Songwriter Kara Conway chooses tracks that have shaped her life and musical career.

Music Choices:

1. My Favourite Things - Julie Andrews

2. Send in the Clowns - Barbara Streisand

3. I Will Walk With My Love (traditional) - Laura Tansey and John Dalton

4. Miss You 2 - Gabrielle Aplin

5. James Dean - David Keenan

Bold (Kara's latest single):

https://soundcloud.com/user-366910087/kara-conway-this-life-04-kara-conway-bold-24-48k-wav/reposts

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo3F6NhoUBo&list=RDAMVMZo3F6NhoUBo

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/bold/1532807638?i=1532807639

https://open.spotify.com/album/1dhsSVbPFeVtg5F2jejLFF?highlight=spotify:track:2MQGYcIs9tQxqVNX5rHSn7

Kara Conway:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karaconwaymusic/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/karaconwaymusic

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KaraConwayMusic/

Scottish Music Centre:

Website: https://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottishmusic

Singer-Songwriter Lynnie Carson chooses four tracks that have shaped her life and musical career.



Music Choices:

1. A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall - Bob Dylan

2. Standing in the Way of Control - Gossip

3. Jesus Hates Faggots - John Grant

4. Late Bloomer - Jenny Lewis



Greta (Lynnie's latest single):

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/greta-single/1541759848

https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B08P3WGW7T?do=play&trackAsin=B08P3V3D5D&ref=dm_sh_2Hstgz0JQSNcLX55Yf3Qw2Ruk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OKdhzgBy0&feature=youtu.be

https://open.spotify.com/album/0k5Zqn9Fc1BTCzv7pFSb8l?si=fnvZuYMXQ2q1HUGIm7CPNA&nd=1



Lynnie Carson:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynniecarson



Scottish Music Centre:

Website: https://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottishmusic

Singer-songwriter Horse McDonald reflects on her successful career and the songs and artists that have inspired her along the way.

Cellist Alice Allen chats about her musical career and the important role her chosen tracks have played throughout her life.

Based around tracks that are important to her, singer-songwriter Carol Laula tells us about her early musical life, her career and her work with community groups.