When I think of St Andrews Music Society, I don’t think of the ukulele. Of all the bands, orchestras, and ensembles that the society has to offer, Ukelear Fusion is without a doubt the most unconventional. A group of roughly ten members, they arrange and perform covers of popular music based on the ukulele, and plan to release an album of their work this year. Prior to the group’s album launch concert, entitled Tiny Strings, Big Feelings, my experience of the ukulele was limited to primary...

As a student in St Andrews, one tends to wonder where on Earth all the ‘‘real adults’ are. Not the postgrads, but the homeowning, tax-paying, family-supporting members of society. As it turns out, they’re all at the Vic on a Saturday night. ‘Kickin’ It Country’ was marketed as “the UK’s largest country experience,” yet my immediate impression upon arrival was of an event woefully underattended and underadvertised. The bar was deserted, the music loud, and the promised country decor nowhere to...

Ironically, as an Events writer, few things frighten me more than walking into an event alone, with no companion and no idea what to expect. So it was with abject terror that I made my way to the Old Union Diner this Friday for Art Society’s workshop on the Palestinian embroidery technique of Tatreez. I took my seat at a table of strangers and surreptitiously pulled out a notebook and pen as Leena Nammari, the artist running the workshop, began to talk. In just over fifteen minutes, she...