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Emily Smith on music and food.

Mike Harding | 11:44 UK time, Friday, 6 November 2009

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Last night's trip to the BBC in Glasgow was fun - the city was aglow with fireworks exploding all over the sky.

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Emily Smith on 'Adoon Winding Nith'

Mike Harding | 16:03 UK time, Wednesday, 4 November 2009

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Emily Smith writes:

I'm currently enjoying a few days at home following a run of Scottish dates promoting 'Adoon Winding Nith' the new album myself and husband Jamie McClennan have made this year as a project to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. 

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Music made with love, care and joy...

Mike Harding | 13:28 UK time, Monday, 2 November 2009

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I bought three absolutely cracking CDs last week that have put me in a very good mood ever since.

All three CDs are what Irish musicians would call 'the pure drop'.

Unadorned, rootsy and full of life they are what folk music is all about.

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