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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Hands Up for Trad TV 34
This post was originally published hereWatch the Christmas edition of Hands Up for Trad TV with Simon Thoumire and Alana MacInnes featuring great music videos from Paul McKenna Band, Karine Polwart, Killin Folk Festival, Laoise Kelly, Gillebride Macmillan and Project Smok. Thanks for watching. Do you know where we are? If you enjoyed this video […]
Tiree Music Festival Early Bird Tickets Sell Out in Record Time
TMF is celebrating the fastest ever ticket sales for the annual festival, with 750 early bird tickets selling out in just 52 minutes and all Glamping and Campervan tickets selling out in just 10 minutes, an unprecedented record for the festival that will help mark its 10th edition. 2019 will see the 2000 capacity festival […]
Soundbetter – The world’s best mixing & mastering engineers, singers, songwriters, producers and studio musicians for hire
This post was originally published hereThanks to Lorne MacDougall for flagging this service up. Check out his profile page! It’s basically an online agency for musicians, producers, engineers etc. If an agency is looking for a piper to record some music or a producer to make something they visit Soundbetter and ask you the musician […]
Emerging Artists Bursary Scheme: Edinburgh City of Edinburgh Council
This post was originally published hereThe city of Edinburgh Council in partnership with Creative Scotland announces the latest round of the Emerging Artists Bursary Scheme. The Bursary programme will support up to 2 successful applicants to develop and progress their creative practice over 12 months. The programme will be tailored to the individual visual artist/craft […]
Grow Wild Funding for Youth-Led Creative Projects
This post was originally published hereGet £500 and support to make your creative idea inspired by UK-native wildflowers, plants or fungi a reality! Get ready for an experience like no other and join Grow Wilds mission to empower young people aged 14-25 to develop a creative idea into a project that helps raise awareness about […]
Artist Support Project Coordinator (An Lanntair)
This post was originally published hereThis is a fantastic opportunity for someone with an excellent understanding and practical insight into the arts sector to join our team at An Lanntair as our Artist Support Project Coordinator. Job Title: Artist Support Project Coordinator Hours of work: Part time, three days per week Rate of pay: £22,850 […]
Spotify – Create and manage audio ad campaigns
This post was originally published hereThis is an interesting thought I saw the other day. Make ads for Spotify to promote your music. This is a link to Ad Studio where you can ‘create ad campaigns from scratch, so you can reach your audience in unique, screenless moments on Spotify.’ https://adstudio.spotify.com/ This post was originally […]