{"id":2452,"date":"2018-03-09T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2018-03-09T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:15:27","slug":"trad-talk-oasis-or-mirage-the-trad-gigging-economy-in-scotland-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/trad-talk-oasis-or-mirage-the-trad-gigging-economy-in-scotland-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Trad Talk: Oasis or Mirage? The Trad Gigging Economy in Scotland Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Festivals seem to flourish, CDs still pour from the pressing plants, musicians are fizzing with ideas and skill. All seems to be well in the trad scene today, but what is the reality for musicians, promoters and venues? Are there enough gigs? Has the folk club had its day?<\/p>\n<p>What do audiences want? The\u00a0<strong>Traditional Music Forum<\/strong>\u00a0hosts a day of first-hand accounts, reflections and ideas with leading figures from the scene, plus plenty of opportunity for discussion and practical proposals.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include musicians\u00a0<strong>Pete Coe<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Laura Beth Salter<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Fraser Bruce<\/strong>, with\u00a0<strong>Carolyn Paterson<\/strong>\u00a0(The Tolbooth),\u00a0<strong>Stuart Miller<\/strong>\u00a0(Falkirk Folk Club), <strong>David Foley<\/strong> (Folklub) and\u00a0<strong>Douglas Robertson<\/strong>\u00a0(SoundHouse), plus more to be announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracscotland.org\/scottish-storytelling-centre\/centre-events\/9088\/trad-talk-oasis-or-mirage-the-trad-gigging-economy\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE<\/strong><br \/>\n43-45 HIGH STREET, EDINBURGH, EH1 1SR<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a315 (\u00a310 Forum Members)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festivals seem to flourish, CDs still pour from the pressing plants, musicians are fizzing with ideas and skill. All seems to be well in the trad scene today, but what is the reality for musicians, promoters and venues? Are there enough gigs? Has the folk club had its day? What do audiences want? The\u00a0Traditional Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musicians","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}