Introducing our 2020 PERFORMANCES AWARD The GDMT are here to help. If you are a self-employed, professional Scottish musician who has limited savings; please consider applying for a GDMT award if you require financial assistance during this extremely difficult time. Please visit our website for full details on how to apply. https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/get-funded/2020-awards/ If you would […]

The Traditional Music Forum have two workshops left in the Professional Development series which were originally planned to take place in Inverness. Instead of cancelling these events we have moved them to online webinars. Please book in advance through Eventbrite and on the day of the event we will send you a link to join […]

Thank you to everyone who has submitted a request to the Bridging Bursary (Arts and Creative) funding programme to date. We will respond to all requests as soon as possible and within the four-week timeframe indicated. Please do not submit another request if you made one in the previous round. The response to the first […]

From Spotify. As part of our efforts to support the global music community during this unprecedented crisis, today, we’re rolling out a new feature, which enables you to add a fundraising destination to your profile through Spotify for Artists. In this first iteration of the feature (available to all artists globally), you can submit a […]

Starcatchers is offering professional development bursaries worth £200 for artists in Scotland who work with and for babies and young children 0-5. This resource can support any form of professional development that can be undertaken within the limitations currently placed on all of us. This might be research, time spent in (remote) discussion with other […]

We want to celebrate all the big and small ways you’ve been making it through the last few weeks indoors – to raise money to fight homelessness. Made at Home is a fundraising book, harnessing the explosion of domestic creativity to help people facing homelessness during the coronavirus. We’ve been baking, sewing, doodling, writing, crafting […]

Over the past year or two Mudchutney have been working with a number of folk bands providing them with a print on demand service, and enabling them – at no financial risk or outlay – to sell shirts and hoodies to their fans.  They don’t need to stump up any cash whatsoever, but through Mudchutney can […]

What is the competition? To celebrate Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, artists aged 16+ are invited to write new music inspired by one of ten National Nature Reserves (NNRs) across the country. What do I win? The entries will be judged by a panel of well-known and highly regarded musicians and industry professionals, including […]

Make Music Day 2020 is going digital! To help with this unexpected change we’re looking for an exceptional Digital Producer to join our team from mid-April. MAKE MUSIC DAY 2020 – DIGITAL CELEBRATION Make Music Day is a grassroots festival where musicians, communities, venues and businesses collaborate to celebrate music on 21 June around the […]

Creative Scotland has launched three funding programmes designed to provide further support to sustain the country’s creative community during the COVID-19 outbreak: A Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund will help sustain creative practice by freelance creative professionals who have lost earnings due to the cancelation of work as a result of COVID-19. A parallel Screen Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund will provide similar one-off bursary support to self-employed screen sector workers The Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development will provide support for individuals and organisations to sustain […]