Beyond Borders stimulates and strengthens cross-border collaborations between music creators, performers and presenters. It supports the creation, touring and promotion of innovative and high-quality new music across all genres and encourages engagement with audiences across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland through multiple performances and digital activity. Funding of up to […]

For over twenty years, Hands Up for Trad’s Distil project has been pioneering creative development for traditional musicians across Scotland. Through residential workshops, mentoring, and collaboration with leading ensembles like Mr McFall’s Chamber, Distil has empowered hundreds of musicians to develop compositional confidence and improvisational skills, creating new works that bridge traditional and contemporary music.  […]

The Made in Scotland Onward Touring Fund enables Scottish-based artists, bands and ensembles to take up international touring opportunities for work programmed due to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.  Made in Scotland is a curated showcase that promotes high-quality music, theatre and dance performances by artists based in Scotland to international promoters and audiences at the […]

We’re celebrating Gaelic arts and culture by creating a space for Gaelic artists, practitioners and development workers to speak, listen and be heard in Gaelic.  This event is a chance for people involved in the Gaelic arts scene to gather and discuss the work that’s happening on the ground across Scotland today.  Details  Buain: Gaelic […]

Fèis Rois has teamed up with Moniack Mhor and Cromarty Firth Watershed Environment Trust to form The Dingwall Collective, part of Culture Collective — a national network of participatory arts projects funded by Creative Scotland. And that means we’re recruiting for four exciting new roles. The timing couldn’t be more significant. 2026 marks two major milestones: Fèis Rois’s […]

Why every musician should be on Bandsintown for Artists — and why right now is the perfect moment to sign up If you’re a working musician, you know the frustration. You’ve got a gig coming up. You’ve posted it on Facebook, sent it to your mailing list, maybe put it on your website. And still, […]

The Traditional Music Forum of Scotland is delighted to be heading to CatStrand in New Galloway in May for more Essential Skills Workshops for Traditional Musicians, this time with festival organiser, folk music agent, and creative producer Katch Holmes. Our industry-focussed workshops are designed to offer invaluable insights and practical guidance for musicians and organisations working within traditional music in Scotland. Whether you want to […]

Musicians based in Scotland are to benefit from a new fund to help them cover the rising costs of international touring. Creative Scotland will receive £300,000 to establish a pilot rapid-response fund to support musicians with costs such as travel, freight and visa applications. The one-year trial scheme will be evaluated to gather data on […]

Romhainn: before us, ahead of us Romhainn is a Gaelic arts commission from Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust, in partnership with PS2. We are looking for an artist-, writer-, or musician- in residence to spend time exploring multilingual futures, focussed on an exchange between Scottish Gàidhlig and Irish Gaeilge. This residency is a short, intensive period of […]