Hands Up for Trad are inviting bands to send in a demo to take part in The Battle of the Folk Bands 2019 competition to be held at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections Festival on Saturday January 19th 2019. If you are in a band or have an idea for a band that you haven’t tried out yet this could be for you! We want musicians to take a chance and make a band that you might never have thought of! Your … Read more
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Tinto Summer School Concert online – Wednesday night 8th July, 7pm (BST)
As you might know it is our digital Tinto Summer School this week. As with everything we weren’t really sure how it would go but it has been fantastic! 30 young musicians are all on Zoom learning with Jenna Reid, Josie Duncan, Michael Bryan and Michael Biggins. The best bit about it though is the […]
Highland arts community launches fund for young creatives. New creative fund aims to support & inspire emerging artists at a time when the arts are under threat
The current Covid19 situation has put a huge strain on the arts world across the globe and fearing that there would be a talent drain as emerging artists are put off a promising career in the arts, the Highland arts community has come together to provide significant funding for young people to support them with […]
Celebrating the Year of Coasts & Waters through Gaelic song. Scottish Government supports new resource championing Gaelic heritage
To celebrate the Year of Coasts & Waters, Gaelic arts organisation, Fèisean nan Gàidheal, is championing the rich collection of Gaelic songs connected to coasts and waters, with a new song resource which features a weekly series of online content for people to use to learn and enjoy songs, all sung by some of the […]
Mr Thoumire’s Fine Tunes – Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 190
This post was originally published hereThe weekly Foot Stompin’ Podcast is back with more great Scottish music featuring Jarlath Henderson, Ali Levack, Kathleen MacInnes, Dosca and many more! If you enjoy these podcasts please support our Patreon www.patreon.com/handsupfortrad Hearts Broken, Heads Turned by Jarlath Henderson Track – Courting Is A Pleasure https://jarlathhenderson.co.uk Based On True […]
Hands Up for Trad Strathspey and Reel Society 8th July 2020
Join the Hands Up for Trad Strathspey and Reel Society led by fiddler Claire Gullan to play some arrangements of great Scottish tunes on Wednesday 8th July at 7.30pm. All the tunes are below. Should be fun! We will play for 45 minutes! This will be the last meeting until August. There are 14 great […]
Mr Thoumire’s Fine Tunes – Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast No 189
This post was originally published hereThe now weekly Foot Stompin’ podcast is back with more great new and classic Scottish music! This features new music from Twelfth Day, Marie Fielding and includes our single of the week Losing You by Hannah Rarity! The whole playlist is below. Wide Open by Ross Ainslie Track – Rum […]
Join us for Tinto VIRTUAL Summer School 6-9th July
This post was originally published hereLike everything else in 2020, Tinto Summer School 2020 has been cancelled. This is particularly heartbreaking as it’s our 20th anniversary but we’re looking forward to a big celebration in 2021. However, for 2020 we will Rise Like a Phoenix and go digital. During the week of 6th-9th July 2020 […]
Have you thought about Live Streaming? Here are our experiences so far.
In these strange times I thought I would document Hands Up for Trad’s ventures into Live Streaming. If anyone would like to discuss anything please contact us. When Covid-19 kicked off and everyone was making music videos and zooming left, right and centre we decided to hold back a bit and see what the opportunities […]