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The Ulster-Scots Folk Orchestra (Ulster-Scots: Ulstèr-Scotch Fowk Orchéstrà, USFO) [1] is a Northern Irish band of musicians who perform music from the Ulster-Scots tradition. Formed in 2000, [2] the USFO are part of a revival of interest in Ulster Scots dialect and culture that developed during the 1990s.
The Ulster Scots Agency points to industry, language, music, sport, religion and myriad traditions brought to Ulster from the Scottish lowlands. In particular, the origin of country and western music was extensively from Ulster Scots folk music, in addition to English, German, and African-American styles.
Ulster Scots, also known as Ullans, Hiberno-Scots, or Scots-Irish, refers to the variety of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster. Ulster Irish is the dialect of the Irish language spoken in Ulster. The only county in Ulster to include Gaeltacht regions today is County Donegal, so that the term Donegal Irish is often used synonymously
A Kist o Wurds is a BBC Northern Ireland Ulster-Scots radio programme that has been running since 2002. [1] The show is produced by Chris Spurr, for Blackthorn Productions. [ 2 ] Each week it contains a selection of music, poetry and news from across the country and is a source of information on the Ulster-Scots language, culture, literary ...
fUSe FM Ballymoney (For Ulster Scots Enthusiasts) is the first Ulster Scots community radio station in the UK and is currently run under the Ullans Speakers Association. . Broadcasting on FM 107.5, online [1] and via the TuneIn app [2] from their studio based in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, within the Fuse C
Anderson is perhaps best known as the writer and producer of the musical stage show On Eagle’s Wing, [10] a musical about the Ulster-Scots and their impact on the history of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the United States. [11] It was debuted in Belfast at the SSE Odyssey Arena in May 2004. [12]
Bell served as a professor of harp at the Academy of Music in Belfast. [5] Bell was briefly featured in a 1986 BBC documentary, The Celts, in which he discussed the role and evolution of the harp in Celtic Irish and Welsh society. Derek Bell also appeared with Van Morrison at the Riverside Theatre at the University of Ulster in April 1988.
The great influx of Presbyterians from the Scottish Highlands into the Carolinas might have introduced some African slaves to this form of worship, though this extent to which this influenced African-American church singing has been disputed, due to the fact that English, lowland Scottish, and Ulster-Scots colonists, all of whom would have ...