Help Musicians UK (HMUK), the leading independent music charity, is proud to launch the Jazz Promoters Fellowship today—a new pilot programme in partnership with internationally recognised and award-winning jazz composer, educator and record producer, Issie Barratt. This fully-funded HMUK Fellowship has been developed out of the need to create a gender balance within the jazz […]

New funding to nurture the creative talents of young people and a new National Youth Arts Advisory Group for Scotland have been announced by Creative Scotland and Young Scot. Over the next two years, a National Youth Arts Advisory Group (NYAAG) will issue £40,000 to support young people’s creativity through a new Nurturing Talent Fund. […]

Enterprise Music Scotland, Scotland’s national body for chamber music, are pleased to announce that registration for our Tours Book 2017 is now open! The Tours Book will feature chamber music ensembles and musicians available for touring in Scotland in 2018/19. The directory is used for concert planning by our network of over 75 Scottish chamber […]

Arts and Business Scotland are delighted to confirm that bookings are open for upcoming training events Introduction to Fundraising (Tuesday 13 June in Edinburgh) and A General Tax Guide for Arts and Heritage Organisations (Wednesday 21 June in Glasgow and Friday 23 June in Perth). Introduction to Fundraising Tuesday 13 June 2017 | Arts & Business […]

Simon McKerrell copied me into this tweet the other day. It looks very interesting. FULLY FUNDED PhDs in #creativeindustries @NclUniMusic available NOW @sagegateshead @handsupfortrad http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/studentships/npif/

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a national and international centre of excellence for performing arts education. Ranked in the global top three of performing arts learning and teaching institutions by QS in 2017, we are one of very few in the world offering a degree-level education across music, drama, dance, production skills and film. […]

Twenty outstanding Scottish albums were unveiled tonight as The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award Longlist to a crowd of eager music fans at the O₂ ABC in Glasgow. Now in its sixth year, The SAY Award is Scotland’s most popular and prestigious music prize, boasting a lucrative £20,000 prize for the winner and […]

New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing or inclination. All forms of writing are invited: autobiography and memoirs; creative responses to events and experiences; drama; graphic artwork (monochrome only); poetry; political and cultural commentary and satire; screenplays; short fiction; travel writing or any other creative prose may […]