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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PRSF Momentum Deadline- 18th of November
This post was originally published hereThe Momentum Music Fund offers grants of £5k-£15k for UK based artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers. Activities eligible for support include recording, touring and marketing. CLICK HERE to read our guidance to see if you could be eligible to apply for the Momentum Music Fund. […]
Scots Trad Music Industry Awards
This post was originally published hereI thought you might be interested in reading about these individuals who make our lives easier! We are very pleased to announce the very first MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Industry Awards celebrating all the talented people and organisations who work behind the scenes to make our music as good […]
Fèis Phàislig Weekly Lessons: Position – Guitar Tutor Rate: £35 p/h
This post was originally published hereTime: 10am-1pm (Saturday mornings during term time) Venue: Castlehead High School, Paisley, PA1 2HJ Fèis Phàislig was established in November 2014 to provide traditional music opportunities for young people in Renfrewshire. We now offer a year-round programme of events including our weekly instrumental lessons in accordion, fiddle and guitar. These […]
MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Industry Awards
This post was originally published hereWe are very pleased to announce the very first MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Industry Awards celebrating all the talented people and organisations who work behind the scenes to make our music as good as it possibly can be. Click on the links below to read about the nominees. VOTE […]
Start before you think you’re ready
This post was originally published hereThis bit of advice comes from the great Austin Kleon newsletter. Check it out here. Here’s Stephen Harrigan (talking about his book, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas) and a reproduction of one of Botticelli’s paintings of St. Augustine. (Like almost all writers, St. Augustine, too, wondered about the problem of […]
MOBO HELP MUSICIANS FUND
This post was originally published hereThe fund has been created in partnership to support the career ambitions of artists and groups with grants of up to £2,000. Further funding of up to £3,000 is available for larger groups of musicians. Help Musicians UK are teaming up with MOBO Trust for the third round of the […]
Help Ian Anderson recover after fRoots
This post was originally published hereThis is a worthy cause if you have a few £sss to spare. You’re probably reading this because you were a fan of fRoots magazine: maybe your life was improved by it in some way. You’ll have heard that the company publishing it was finally forced to close down this […]
Montreal by Talisk
This post was originally published hereMontreal is the opening track of our album Beyond! It was written after a trip I took to Canada. Destination was Halifax and I got stuck in a snow storm which meant I had to lay over in Montreal. Normally a flight cancellation leads to a lot of distress and […]