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BBC Scotland's Hogmanay
''BBC Scotland's Hogmanay'' is BBC Scotland's annual live event programme broadcast on Hogmanay, Scotland's New Year's Eve celebration. Regardless of location, the programme rings in the New Year with the firing of Edinburgh Castle's Edinburgh Castle#One O.27Clock Gun, One O'Clock Gun and the subsequent fireworks and celebrations in Edinburgh. The programme in all its iterations feature a mixture of Scottish contemporary and Scottish folk music, folk music, with some past programming also featuring live coverage of parts of the Princes Street concert in Edinburgh. Jackie Bird and Phil Cunningham (folk musician), Phil Cunningham often hosted together each year but from 2008 until 2019 she solely presented the programme. Cunningham does still appear on the programme, though not as a host. Carol Kirkwood reported on the 2016 edition of the show live from Edinburgh Castle. The show currently is hosted live from Glasgow City Halls, The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. Until 2013, Bird was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Year
New Year is the time or day currently at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on January 1 ( New Year's Day, preceded by New Year's Eve). This was also the first day of the year in the original Julian calendar and the Roman calendar (after 153 BC). Other cultures observe their traditional or religious New Year's Day according to their own customs, typically (though not invariably) because they use a lunar calendar or a lunisolar calendar. Chinese New Year, the Islamic New Year, Tamil New Year (Puthandu), and the Jewish New Year are among well-known examples. India, Nepal, and other countries also celebrate New Year on dates according to their own calendars that are movable in the Gregorian calendar. During the Middle Ages in Western Europe, while the Julian calendar was still in use, au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
