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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The passing of an era. The passing of a much-loved monarch. Very sad news for our Norwegian-Scottish community. On behalf of the Norwegian Scottish Association I extend our sincere condolences to all. www.nrk.no/norge/kong-h...

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Kong Harald er død

Kong Harald sovnet stille inn på Rikshospitalet klokken 06.35 i morges, melder kongehuset. Kong Harald ble 89 år.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is about more than Scotland's physical and literary heritage. It is about the hurt and irreversible damage caused her rural communities by our national abandonment of these cherished kirks.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Privileged to take on the role of Chair of the Norwegian Scottish Association in its 60th anniversary year. No better time to promote the values of community and international understanding. #Norge #Skottland.

Norwegian flag with fresh Scottish birch leaves.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Bergen - International Grieg Society Conference. Delighted to have completed my first committee work for the Styre (Board) of the Society. International Cultural Cooperation is more important than ever in these times. #classicalmusic

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Good to be back on the platform of Aberdeen's wonderful Cowdray Hall, and great to assist the brilliant Bubblyjock Collective with my pre-concert talk on opera singer and 'granite city' quine extraordinaire, Mary Garden.

Interior of the Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen, with organ pipes and piano framed by atmospheric stage lighting.

Bubblyjock Collective and Dr Sally Garden backstage at the Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Solving the mystery of 'the old Inverurie fiddle' and its origins. Who made it? And why? How my research uncovered a story of community life and personal tragedy in nineteenth century north east Scotland. See and hear the lightly restored fiddle in my article here: monsgraupius.org/inverurie-pl...

Image of the old Inverurie fiddle researched and played by Dr Sally Garden.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Gratulerer med dagen! Every year I'm privileged to wear bunad and play for Norway's national day celebrations in Scotland's capital city. Have a happy 17th May dear Norwegian friends wherever you are! 🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😍 #17mai #skottland

Sally Garden in Norwegian national costume
in holding her fiddle and bow in the air amidst spring green trees.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I have often wondered why my mother, a pre-NHS registered Scottish nurse, was so keen her family should be musical. Just look at this piano right in the heart of the ward! No distressing electronic beeps and alarms, just music for the solace of the soul... #InternationalNursesDay

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Scots song is full of poignant farewells and partings. Facing my own farewell to a landscape I love, I turned to Scots composer Helen Hopekirk whose arrangement of one of our old airs 'Adieu Dundee' best expressed my feelings.

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Adieu Dundee - Sally Garden sings Helen Hopekirk in sad farewell

YouTube video by Mons Graupius

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Join me tonight at the Royal Norwegian Consulate, Edinburgh.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Join me in Edinburgh at the Royal Norwegian Consulate when I discuss my decipherings of the tiny 'dagbok' of singer and composer's wife Nina Grieg, and share a short film preview for @griegscotland.bsky.social All welcome, 12 Rutland Place, £3 at door, plus coffee & chat!

Fresh in the footsteps of Norwegian singer, diarist & composer's wife, Nina Grieg. Join Dr Sally Garden at the Royal Norwegian Consulate, 12 Rutland Place, Edinburgh, for this evening talk on 01 April at 7 for 7:30pm

Photo of singer and composer's wife Nina Grieg, the subject of a talk by Dr Sally Garden of the Grieg Society of Scotland.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

AI affects all musicians, and without robust legislation, will continue its brutal assail on all sectors from classroom to concert hall. Relieved my professional body is making a stand. Guidance here open to all: www.ism.org/news/ai-copy...

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AI & Copyright Consultation: Members' guidance | ISM UK

The UK Government’s AI & copyright consultation will shape the future of music. Musicians must speak up to protect their rights, fair compensation, and careers.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

One of the most important things we can do for each other in society is to keep socialising and keep learning, which is why I keep up my voluntary work. Come along if you're in Auld Reekie tonight. You might even find me serving waffles 😅

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Norway Scotland Newsletter @norscotnews.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Tonight, Edinburgh, all welcome! The Norwegian Scottish Association presents a wee linguistic feast with skilled Scots translator Dr Rachel Rankin. Venue: Royal Norwegian Consulate, 12 Rutland Square, Edinburgh. (£3 at door including 'hjembakt' waffles!) 😉

Invitation to Norwegian Scottish Association event in Edinburgh

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Exactly, and so too one of Norway's greatest daughters, singer of Scots descent, Nina Grieg.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A Haydn-a-day keeps the doctor away? 😅 This is inspired!

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Norway Scotland Newsletter @norscotnews.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hei alle sammen! Hi everyone! We're lighting up with the lighting of Edinburgh's Christmas Tree, kindly gifted the city by Vestland County, Norway - all in thanks for faithful friendship during WW2. Piper to the Lord Provost and Deacon of the Candlemakers warm the gathering up for the big moment! 🎄

Piper to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Deacon of the Candlemakers in ceremonial dress

Edinburgh's Norwegian Christmas tree full of light and looking lovely

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Led on my Norwegian-Scottish duties last night by Piper to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. So admiring her skill and stamina at leading our procession from the City Chambers. Takes both imaginative repertoire planning and patience with dumb photographers like me! 😂 #Edinburgh #Norge #Vestlandet

Piper to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh leading the Norwegian-Scottish procession for the lighting of the city's juletre gifted by Vestlandet, Norway.

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Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Taking care of another scholar's legacy - a New York musicologist who died before completing her PhD on Scots-born opera phenomenon Mary Garden. This, the much compressed result of what was sent me over the Atlantic many years ago, and still it's overwhelming. I'm so tired.

Scots-born singer Mary Garden and boxes of research material about her career

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 06/11/2024

Fear not the boasts which wound: Fear not the threats which bind: Always on broken ground The seeds fall from the mind… —William Soutar (1898–1943), “In the Time of Tyrants” from In the Time of Tyrants (privately printed, 1939) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/time-ty...

In the Time of Tyrants
William Soutar

All that the hand may touch;
All that the hand may own;
Crumbles beyond time’s clutch
Down to oblivion.

Fear not the boasts which wound:
Fear not the threats which bind:
Always on broken ground
The seeds fall from the mind.

Always in darkest loam
A birthday is begun;
And from its catacomb
A candle lights the sun.

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