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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Made at Home – Call for Contributions (Wide Open Sea)
This post was originally published hereWe want to celebrate all the big and small ways you’ve been making it through the last few weeks indoors – to raise money to fight homelessness. Made at Home is a fundraising book, harnessing the explosion of domestic creativity to help people facing homelessness during the coronavirus. We’ve been […]
Mudchutney On Demand T-shirts and Hoodies for Musicians with No Financial Risk
This post was originally published hereOver the past year or two Mudchutney have been working with a number of folk bands providing them with a print on demand service, and enabling them – at no financial risk or outlay – to sell shirts and hoodies to their fans. They don’t need to stump up any cash […]
Rain and Snow by The Auldeners
This post was originally published hereThe debut offering from new trio, The Auldeners, Rain and Snow is a fragment of a longer Appalachian murder ballad. Recorded and mastered by Ludovic Barrier. The Auldeners are a Glasgow-based trio performing reinterpretations of Appalachian ballads and American old-time tunes. Featuring Iona Fyfe, Ellen Gira and Callum Morton-Teng. Artist […]
Hands Up for Trad Best of the Web 1
Hi welcome to Hands Up for Trad’s Best of the Web – a series of short video clips for musicians performing on social media presented by Alex the dog. Please check out all the musicians web and social pages and support them where you can. Playlist Tunes in the Hoose – Gay Gordons (Peter Wood […]
Scotland’s top musicians to perform live in your living room for one weekend only! Fèis Rois to host online traditional music festival next month
One of Scotland’s leading traditional arts organisations, Fèis Rois, has lined up some of Scotland’s top musicians and singers for an online traditional music festival, after having two of its popular annual events cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Fèis Rois ran its first Adult Fèis in 1990 and sadly had to cancel its 30th anniversary […]
Sandy Bell’s folk bar in Edinburgh needs help to get through Covid-19 crisis as funding page set up
A funding page has been set up to help the iconic Sandy Bell’s folk bar in Edinburgh survive the Covid-19 crisis. Contribute here The world famous Forrest Road venue, which regularly hosts live music, is in need of cash to get through the coronavirus lockdown. Owner Steven Hannah has had the pub for the last […]
Want to join our Hands Up for Trad Strathspey & Reel Society? It’s happening online on the 15th April! Find out more below.
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 15th April at 7.30pm. All the tunes are below. Should be fun! We will play for 45 minutes! There are 7 great sets of music and Claire will take you […]
Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust Performance Award
This post was originally published hereIntroducing our 2020 PERFORMANCES AWARD The GDMT are here to help. If you are a self-employed, professional Scottish musician who has limited savings; please consider applying for a GDMT award if you require financial assistance during this extremely difficult time. Please visit our website for full details on how to […]