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Kerry Dexter
@kerrydexter.bsky.social
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Music for the peace of #winter ❄️🎄 in shifting times, from Matt & Shannon Heaton Tish Hinojosa Kathy Mattea @caradillonsings.bsky.social &others story at @wanderingeducators.bsky.social #reflection #creativity wanderingeducators.com/best/stories...
A familiar 🎶🏴 tune heard in a new way can be a gateway to reflection #cello #creativity #scotland #sualee #robertburns kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
Sunday Sessions: music for reflecting on change
A love song, a lament, a reflection on change...
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January 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
A familiar 🎶🏴 tune heard in a new way can be a gateway to reflection #cello #creativity #scotland #sualee #robertburns kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
Poets as #travel inspiration: 8 ideas on places to explore, at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #poetry #creativity #reflection perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/04...
Poets as Travel Inspiration: 8 Ideas
Does the work of poets inspire travel? Ways to explore that idea in places in Ireland, Scotland and the US
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January 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Poets as #travel inspiration: 8 ideas on places to explore, at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #poetry #creativity #reflection perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/04...
It is always a season of giving #reflection #creativity @perceptivetravel.bsky.social perceptivetravel.com/blog/2022/11...
Season of Giving: How to Help
It is a season of giving the midst of unsettling times. There are ways to connect, to help, whether you travel through geography or through imagination.
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January 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM
It is always a season of giving #reflection #creativity @perceptivetravel.bsky.social perceptivetravel.com/blog/2022/11...
Almost time for 🎶☘️🏴🎻 #Boston Celtic Music Festival, with Matt Heaton & Flynn Cohen, Scottish Fish, Rakish, Altan, & many others. The Burren pub celebrates a major anniversary while hosting sessions & concerts, too @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/12...
BCMFest: Lighting Up Celtic Stories In Music
Boston Celtic Music Festival BCMFest returns to celebrate the best of New England Celtic connections at venues in Cambridge & Somerville
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January 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Almost time for 🎶☘️🏴🎻 #Boston Celtic Music Festival, with Matt Heaton & Flynn Cohen, Scottish Fish, Rakish, Altan, & many others. The Burren pub celebrates a major anniversary while hosting sessions & concerts, too @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/12...
Darkest Days, brightest nights -- winter in a song 🎶❄️ kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
Sunday Sessions: Darkest Days, Brightest Nights
A song of reflection for the quiet side of winter
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January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Darkest Days, brightest nights -- winter in a song 🎶❄️ kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
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More brilliant opportunities, competitions, and calls for submissions are now live on our website! Some with incoming deadlines 🏃🏃♂️🏃♀️
Check them out:
irishwriterscentre.ie/resources/co...
Check them out:
irishwriterscentre.ie/resources/co...
Competitions, submissions and other opportunities - Irish Writers Centre
Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Writing courses, literary events, professional development for writers, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwriting.
irishwriterscentre.ie
January 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM
More brilliant opportunities, competitions, and calls for submissions are now live on our website! Some with incoming deadlines 🏃🏃♂️🏃♀️
Check them out:
irishwriterscentre.ie/resources/co...
Check them out:
irishwriterscentre.ie/resources/co...
In #Dublin TradFest 🎶☘️is on the way near the end of January. Concerts, workshops, family activities and more, in Temple Bar, Fingal, & other parts of the city. More in my story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel #Ireland #music perceptivetravel.com/blog/2026/01...
TradFest: Dublin Celebrates
Tradfest.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:26 PM
In #Dublin TradFest 🎶☘️is on the way near the end of January. Concerts, workshops, family activities and more, in Temple Bar, Fingal, & other parts of the city. More in my story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel #Ireland #music perceptivetravel.com/blog/2026/01...
If you are looking for new reading material, I have ideas over in my @bookshop.org lists. Your purchases can support local bookstores #creativity #ireland #Scotland #music &more bookshop.org/shop/musicroad
MusicRoad Bookshop
Recommending books on music, the arts, travel, history, creativity, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and elsewhere.
bookshop.org
January 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
If you are looking for new reading material, I have ideas over in my @bookshop.org lists. Your purchases can support local bookstores #creativity #ireland #Scotland #music &more bookshop.org/shop/musicroad
Protest songs beyond the anger: part 4 in a series, with 🎶 music from @caradillonsings.bsky.social @carrienewcomer.bsky.social Breabach, Claire Lynch, Bruce Foley #creativity #reflection kerrydexter.substack.com/p/onward-son...
Onward: Songs of Protest part 4
We began this journey thinking about what songs of protest can do, what purposes they serve.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Protest songs beyond the anger: part 4 in a series, with 🎶 music from @caradillonsings.bsky.social @carrienewcomer.bsky.social Breabach, Claire Lynch, Bruce Foley #creativity #reflection kerrydexter.substack.com/p/onward-son...
Several ideas as the year begins, and a good question in a song 🎶from Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
Sunday Sessions: Bonne Année and Hidden Gems
As always, music is part of the story as a new year begins.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Several ideas as the year begins, and a good question in a song 🎶from Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
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This is really a work of public service. Amazing audio editing too. @npr.org reporters spent months going through footage of the Jan 6 rioters, parsing the legacy of that day and how it is being rewritten by the current administration.
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5666...
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5666...
🔊 Listen Now: Inside the Jan. 6 Capitol riot: Part 1 of 2
Consider This From NPR on NPR One | 42:53
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January 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This is really a work of public service. Amazing audio editing too. @npr.org reporters spent months going through footage of the Jan 6 rioters, parsing the legacy of that day and how it is being rewritten by the current administration.
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5666...
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5666...
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Celtic Connections Festival in #Glasgow is on the way. Capercaillie, @juliefowlis.bsky.social Cherish the Ladies with @cathieryan.bsky.social &other guests, Rokia Kone, Fara, Le Vent du Nord, Kathy Mattea, &many others. Story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/11...
Celtic Connections: Discover Music in Glasgow
Celtic Connections, one of Europe's & the world's best winter festivals, is coming up in Glasgow, Scotland. Learn about the fest & preview several highlights
perceptivetravel.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Celtic Connections Festival in #Glasgow is on the way. Capercaillie, @juliefowlis.bsky.social Cherish the Ladies with @cathieryan.bsky.social &other guests, Rokia Kone, Fara, Le Vent du Nord, Kathy Mattea, &many others. Story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/11...
Kindness, courage, the world of nature, music, and more, a good read for this day and these times, from Karine Polwart karinepolwart.substack.com/p/come-away-in
Come Away In
The storm it is rising, but we'll hold back the wind
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January 4, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Kindness, courage, the world of nature, music, and more, a good read for this day and these times, from Karine Polwart karinepolwart.substack.com/p/come-away-in
At the turning of the year, a 🎶song of connection with a perspective you may not have considered, from @cathieryan.bsky.social #reflection #creativity ☘️ #Ireland #FirstNations #Arizona kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
Sunday Sessions: In My Tribe
Tradition, heritage, connection.
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January 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
At the turning of the year, a 🎶song of connection with a perspective you may not have considered, from @cathieryan.bsky.social #reflection #creativity ☘️ #Ireland #FirstNations #Arizona kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
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As promised, here’s a year-end #ScholarSunday thread featuring some of the best public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new books, & more from throughout 2025. I really appreciate folks who shared work, their own & that of others, for this meta-thread! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/special-best...
blackwhiteandread.com/special-best...
Special Best-of-2025 #ScholarSunday Thread! – Black and White and Read All Over
As promised, here’s a year-end #ScholarSunday thread featuring some of the best public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new books, & more from throughout 2025. I really appreciate folks who...
blackwhiteandread.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As promised, here’s a year-end #ScholarSunday thread featuring some of the best public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new books, & more from throughout 2025. I really appreciate folks who shared work, their own & that of others, for this meta-thread! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/special-best...
blackwhiteandread.com/special-best...
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Our very own @thinkuhi.bsky.social Dr Paul Malgrati presenting his research at #BunsSupper225 conference
Next up in our #BurnsSupper225 conference countdown, we are delighted that @paulmalgrati.bsky.social will present a paper titled ‘Scottish Food Patriotism and the Literary Antecedents of Robert Burns’s “To a Haggis”’ - this is a CRBS exclusive not to be missed! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
A conference exploring the life, work, and legacy of Robert Burns, this year celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Burns Supper
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January 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Our very own @thinkuhi.bsky.social Dr Paul Malgrati presenting his research at #BunsSupper225 conference
Two 🎶🎻 #fiddle tunes for ❄️ #winter quiet, from Hanneke Cassel #reflection #creativity kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
Sunday Sessions: Two Fiddle Tunes for Winter Quiet
Music can be a gateway to quiet reflection...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Two 🎶🎻 #fiddle tunes for ❄️ #winter quiet, from Hanneke Cassel #reflection #creativity kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
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Not sure how to celebrate the start of 2026? Here are lots of ideas for #NYE fun in #Ottawa, Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais. And some of them--including fireworks at Lansdowne Park and a big slate of concerts in Brockville--are free! ottawaroadtrips.com/2022/12/05/n...
2025 New Year’s Eve in Ottawa, the Outaouais and Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Road Trips
Wondering how to celebrate New Year's Eve 2025 in Ottawa and nearby? How about these New Year's Eve parties in Ottawa, Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais?
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December 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Not sure how to celebrate the start of 2026? Here are lots of ideas for #NYE fun in #Ottawa, Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais. And some of them--including fireworks at Lansdowne Park and a big slate of concerts in Brockville--are free! ottawaroadtrips.com/2022/12/05/n...
A 🎶song of reflection and the northern lights, from the band Fara from #Orkney kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
Sunday Sessions: Night Sky Dancers
Look north...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A 🎶song of reflection and the northern lights, from the band Fara from #Orkney kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
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A song for 🎶❄️winter reflection, written by Bob Franke, sung by Kathy Mattea (Joanie Madden of Cherish the Ladies guests too) story at Music Road #Advent #Christmas #reflection #creativity #winter musicroad.blogspot.com/2025/12/stra...
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A song for 🎶❄️winter reflection, written by Bob Franke, sung by Kathy Mattea (Joanie Madden of Cherish the Ladies guests too) story at Music Road #Advent #Christmas #reflection #creativity #winter musicroad.blogspot.com/2025/12/stra...
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"Darkest days, brightest nights, Mother Nature got it right..." find out why in this 🎶song from A Fiddlers Holiday 🎻 #newyear #winter #songwriter #creativity kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
Sunday Sessions: Darkest Days, Brightest Nights
A song of reflection for the quiet side of winter
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December 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Darkest days, brightest nights, Mother Nature got it right..." find out why in this 🎶song from A Fiddlers Holiday 🎻 #newyear #winter #songwriter #creativity kerrydexter.substack.com/p/sunday-ses...
5 UK based 🎤 #podcasts you may not have come across, all well worth your listening. Learn reasons why at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #learning 🎻 #music #history #travel 🏴 #gaidhlig perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/01...
5 UK Podcasts to Discover: Unexpected Science, Holocaust Memories, Music from Scotland & More:
Science, people helping each other, Holocaust memories, climate questions, music from Scotland: five podcasts to explore
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December 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
5 UK based 🎤 #podcasts you may not have come across, all well worth your listening. Learn reasons why at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #learning 🎻 #music #history #travel 🏴 #gaidhlig perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/01...
If you or someone you know enjoys #archaeology (or unsual facts), this is the book 📖 for you. Story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #reading #history 📚 #books perceptivetravel.com/blog/2023/07...
Secret Britain: Exploring 70 Mysteries of Archaeology
Consider 70 mysteries of archaeology both well known and little known in England, Wales, and Scotland in the book Secret Britain
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December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you or someone you know enjoys #archaeology (or unsual facts), this is the book 📖 for you. Story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #reading #history 📚 #books perceptivetravel.com/blog/2023/07...
Celtic Connections Festival in #Glasgow is on the way. Capercaillie, @juliefowlis.bsky.social Cherish the Ladies with @cathieryan.bsky.social &other guests, Rokia Kone, Fara, Le Vent du Nord, Kathy Mattea, &many others. Story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/11...
Celtic Connections: Discover Music in Glasgow
Celtic Connections, one of Europe's & the world's best winter festivals, is coming up in Glasgow, Scotland. Learn about the fest & preview several highlights
perceptivetravel.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Celtic Connections Festival in #Glasgow is on the way. Capercaillie, @juliefowlis.bsky.social Cherish the Ladies with @cathieryan.bsky.social &other guests, Rokia Kone, Fara, Le Vent du Nord, Kathy Mattea, &many others. Story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/11...
It's a good time for exploring 🌃🌠night skies in the US and Canada: ideas on where to do that in my story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel #nature ❄️ #winter perceptivetravel.com/blog/2016/12...
Stars and Travel: Canada and United States
Stars: they a a constant in your night sky, but take a moment -- or plan a trip-- to spend time star gazing. US and Canada dark sky places to explore.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It's a good time for exploring 🌃🌠night skies in the US and Canada: ideas on where to do that in my story at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel #nature ❄️ #winter perceptivetravel.com/blog/2016/12...