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Editor: Kenny Lavelle

Sub Editor: Leona Skene

Editorial Assistant: Lara Delmage

Food and Drink Editors: Emma Mykytyn and Mark Murphy

LGBT+ Editor: Jonny Stone

What's On Editor: Natalie Jayne Clark

Film Editor: Martin Sandison

Design and Illustration: Joanna Hughes

Cover photo credit: Kyle Crooks

Spine quote credit: Jonny Stone

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Hello and welcome to SNACK issue 47,

Have you ever wished you could bypass January altogether and skip straight to February? Well, that’s exactly what we’ve done. January is always a quiet one for new releases and events so this time round we’ve taken the time to take a step back, reflect, and work on our plans for the new year. We’ve not just been hiding: it’s a cape, not a blanket, honest. So, here we are, kicking off the new year, late but rested, and, in theory at least, ready for the dance floor. As you’ll have seen: the mighty TAAHLIAH leads the way with our first front cover feature of the new year. She’s been blazing a trail since we last caught up in 2021, with an unforgettable Boiler Room just one highlight of her ’22. We’re delighted to be able to showcase one of Scotland’s rising talents – this is, after all, what the mag was built for. Personally, I’m delighted to have more techno/electronica in the mag, as was always meant to be (see elsewhere in this month’s issue for our interview with the ever cosmic Free Love). Anyways, I’ll stop rambling and let you get on with the rest of the mag – I’m sure you’ll find your way around. Enjoy your February. Remember: it’s a cape, not a blanket.

Kenny Lavelle Editor

A MOTHER’S SONG

Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling 23rd till 26th February

You are in for a treat – the world premiere of folk musical A Mother’s Song. Brooklyn-based protagonist Sarah, who is not in contact with her family and has zero connection to her Celtic cultural history, becomes obsessed with two of her ancestors after sorting through a box left by her late aunt. Within this box is Aunt Betty’s assiduous research into their family’s balladsinging tradition, especially that surrounding Cait (whose story centres in Stirling in 1609) and Jean, a ‘fiery teenager’ who was part of the Scots Ulster community in the 1700s. Sarah’s fresh start with her girlfriend Alix in modern day New York is woven with these women’s stories of being on the cusp of womanhood, and fear, and risk, and music. The emotions of this show swing to and fro, like a baby being cradled, like the Celtic diaspora, like the fiddle bow.

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