Stonehaven Folk Club recognizes the catastrophic impact that Covid-19 has had on Scottish Folk Artists and their crew’s incomes. To help address this impact, the Club has teamed up with Hands Up for Trad to start up a fund to help support Folk musicians and music production staff living in Scotland during the crisis.
To launch the Fund, Stonehaven Folk Club is providing 20 grants of £250 to help towards living expenses during this period when affected individuals are unable to work. It is hoped this fund will grow with further donations from other organisations and the public.
To support this project please contact Hands Up for Trad by clicking here or donate via the Fund’s JustGiving page.
Affected individuals wishing to apply for a grant please click here for an application form and for acceptance criteria and conditions.
Stonehaven Folk Club has been running weekly folk nights since 1987, and during those years many of the great names of Scottish Folk Music and beyond have performed at the club. It celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017 and has twice been voted Club of the Year at the Trad Awards. The club has operated on a break-even basis for several years having accumulated some financial reserves to get us through any unplanned hard times. The current crisis is not the hard time the club expected to use its reserves for, but it is appropriate if it can help some of the fantastic Folk talent in Scotland get through the next few months and hopefully stay as performing artists.
Find out more about Stonehaven Folk Club here: https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/landmark/stonehaven-folk-club-1987-2017-30-years-old/ and https://www.stonehavenfolkclub.co.uk
Hands Up for Trad was formed in 2002 and exists to promote Scottish traditional music through fundraising, information, education and advocacy to artists, participants and audiences across Scotland, organising Summer Schools and the annual MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, broadcast live on BBC ALBA, BBC Radio Scotland and streamed around the world on BBC iPlayer. Funded through ticket sales, sponsorship and donations, the organisation is also supported by Creative Scotland. The highly regarded annual awards give recognition to excellence within Scotland’s thriving musical culture, encompassing all aspects of making and performing traditional music from composing, Gaelic song, folk, Scottish dance music, pipe bands and a host of others in between.
Affected individuals wishing to apply for a grant please click here for an application form and for acceptance criteria and conditions.