Liza Mulholland
Vision behind a venue.
Eighteen years ago, friends Kit and Sarah Fraser approached my husband and I to be involved with their new project. It was around late...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Summer notes.
Isn’t August a superb month for music! As always, our local Belladrum Festival has got things off to a flying start, and not just because...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Bringing in the bells with Dorec-a-belle!
Keeping exciting news to yourself is so hard! When you’re bursting to share it but can’t! It certainly was for Dorec-a-belle recently...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Exposure: steering a course.
One of the highlights of our Highland cultural calendar is XPO North, just drawn to a close here in Inverness. Originally an annual...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
All aboard the Ceilidh Trail!
With June’s weather unseasonably wet and cold, many are asking what’s happened to summer? But with the countdown to school holidays and...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 29, 2021
- 3 min
Rehearsal: never quite enough!
As a musician I’ve had to do many seat-of-the-pants gigs over the years but a recent one made me wonder if adrenalin is what gets us...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 4 min
Small bite of the big apple has planted a seed.
Wherever I am on holiday, I always try to seek out local music. Not just because I’m a musician and interested in hearing lots of...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
Collaboration is the creative key.
Along with playing and performing, there are usually many elements to a musician’s work – teaching, composing, arranging, rehearsing,...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 4 min
Coming to a hall near you!
I love village halls! I mean, where else can you hear top-class folk music in a relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere, with tea and...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
On the road to musical freedom!
It’s been a time of happy celebration at home this week with my son passing his driving test. What has this got to do with music, you...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
Post-Culloden cull failed to quash our culture.
This week I’ve been listening to an excellent new music series on BBC Radio 4, ‘Black music in Europe: A hidden history’. Although...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
This musician longs for quiet!
Is it possible for a musician to become allergic to music? Before you think I’ve lost the plot, let me clarify that I mean the...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
Gender parity out of sync in trad music.
On this International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate women in folk and traditional music, and where better to start than with good news!...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
Beethoven connection might have opened eyes - and ears - to Scottish music.
I was recently invited to write a guest blog on a subject dear to my heart - Scotland’s songs - sparking memories of childhood music...
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Liza Mulholland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 3 min
Let's start by making new connections!
Welcome to my new Artyness column! Every fortnight I will be sharing a little flavour of the musician’s life and work, along with some...
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