#transplanted

Transplanted onto CD

Our recording of Changeless and the Changed by David Fennessy has been included on new music::new Ireland 3, a promotional CD produced by...

Alice Rickards

Mar 5, 20181 min read

The Grand Finale!

The 1st of June was the grand finale of our TRANSPLANTED project with the children in p. 5 and p.6 at Carntyne Primary School. We spent...

Learning

Sonia Cromarty

Jun 2, 20163 min read

Composers at work

We started work on 9 graphic scores today. Before our young composers put pen to paper we looked at at a beautiful long graphic score...

Learning

Alice Rickards

May 19, 20162 min read

Week 3 @ Carntyne Primary

Another beautiful morning greeted us- we're beginning to think it is always sunny at Carntyne Primary School! The children were as...

Learning

Sonia Cromarty

May 12, 20162 min read

Week 2 @ Carntyne Primary

Main Aims Continuing on from last week, show how composers can describe the many characteristics of plants Introduce concept of graphic...

Learning

Alice Rickards

Apr 28, 20163 min read

TRANSPLANTED to Carntyne Primary

The beautiful sunny morning was a great way start to our first session with P6 at Carntyne Primary. As the students entered the room in...

Learning

Alice Rickards

Apr 21, 20162 min read

TRANSPLANTED education project

We are taking TRANSPLANTED to a new audience, the music and the wild plants that inspired the project have proven to be a great education...

Learning

Alice Rickards

Apr 20, 20162 min read

TRANSPLANTED at the Tin Hut

With the theme of native Scottish plants depicted in music, dynamic duo High Heels and Horse Hair, Alice Rickards (violin) and Sonia...

Concerts and Reviews

William Gilmour

Nov 26, 20144 min read

96 AIRS FOR THE SEASONS - JAMES OSWALD

Sonia first discovered Oswald when reading Scotland’s Music by the author, playwright and composer John Purser. She was looking for...

Alice Rickards

Nov 21, 20143 min read

Birnam & Ardkinglas

Sonia and I are both members of Plantlife and have enjoyed working with Deborah and the team at Plantlife Scotland to create...

Concerts and Reviews

Alice Rickards

Oct 28, 20142 min read

RBGE & Dunfermline Arts Guild

The East coast leg of our TRANSPLANTED tour saw us perform in two very different venues. On Saturday 18th October we travelled to the...

Concerts and Reviews

Sonia Cromarty

Oct 20, 20141 min read

TRANSPLANTED at the NTS

We had a wonderful weekend performing TRANSPLANTED at two of National Trust for Scotland's stunning gardens. On friday night we headed...

Concerts and Reviews

Alice Rickards

Oct 16, 20142 min read

A Scot's 18th century concept transplanted to modern day

First published in The Herald on 8 October, 2014 What does sneezewort sound like? A bit slimy. Lichen? Think intertwining, symbiotic...

Concerts and Reviews

Kate Molleson

Oct 8, 20145 min read

Conserving Scotland's biodiversity

Plantlife Scotland is delighted to be supporting High Heels and Horse Hair and their TRANSPLANTED project. Plants and fungi are...

Nature

Dr. Deborah Long Plantlife

Oct 6, 20143 min read

Bogs

Bogs – the Cinderella of the natural world. Bogs really do have bad press; they bring up connotations of wasteland, emptiness, squelchy...

Nature

Davie Black

Sep 16, 20142 min read

Waxcap

Having always had a penchant for the sinister, I was immediately attracted to the subject matter for my TRANSPLANTED miniature. Fungi...

Learning

Martin Kershaw

Sep 9, 20141 min read

The Kingdom of fungi

As summer moves towards autumn, and grassland flowers fade, a second show of colour can be provided by fungi. Among the most colourful...

Nature

Dr. Max Coleman

Sep 1, 20142 min read

Cladonia bellidiflora

Not in fact a plant, but a lichen. I saw some of these little beauties when I took shelter next to a damp rock on a wet, sullen winter’s...

Learning

Stuart MacRae

Aug 23, 20142 min read

Turning the tables in the bog

A Scottish bog in summer can be a haven of calm, as imagined by David Ward in his post for this blog. All too often, however, a still day...

Nature

Dr Max Coleman RBGE Science Communicator

Aug 17, 20142 min read

Sundew

Having not lived near the Scottish countryside for many moons, I asked Sonia and Alice to nominate a plant for my composition. I’m so...

Learning

Judith Weir

Aug 17, 20141 min read