Sage Gateshead is looking for an inspirational Musical Director for its renowened youth folk ensemble – Folkestra. The successful applicant will be an outstanding folk performer and music leader with deep knowledge of folk and traditional music styles and knowledge of performance traditions. The Folkestra Musical Director is a significant leadership role and nurture and […]
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Scottish music playlist on Spotify
Hello! We have created a Scottish music podcast on Spotify! It features many tracks of Scottish bands and singers and we will be adding to it weekly. If you use Spotify and would like to listen to it click on the link below!
Job opportunity! Traditional Music Forum
The Traditional Music Forum is looking for a membership officer. The role, which is part-time freelance, is to support the TMF Co-ordinator in developing membership and communications with the membership, and to assist on all aspects of the delivery of the organisation’s mission and key objectives as laid out in the Work Programme. The initial […]
Great video from the late Jim Reid live in the Keillor Centre, Dundee
Check out this great archive video of the late great Jim Reid Live in the Keillor Centre in Dundee. He was promoting his new album The Better O’ A Sang (1996?). Recording by Gordon “gordonus” Campbell.
Watch this Feis Rois Kin project video!
Check out this lovely video from Highland Youth Arts Hub and Fèis Rois. Young musicians have got together with fiddler Duncan Chisholm and have put together a project based on his ‘Kin Project’. They have found a singer who lived in their locality and researched him and his life. They’ve put together a show, composed […]
Scottish Album of the Year longlist announced
The Scottish Album of the Year longlist has just been announced. It features 20 albums from all of Scottish music’s genres – pop, jazz, folk, rock and more. You can check them out at http://www.sayaward.com. You can listen to tracks from all the album and there is an opportunity to listen to one complete album each […]
John Byrne designs new Shooglenifty cover
This is great! Famous artist and writer John Byrne has designed the new Shooglenifty album cover “The Untied Knot”. You might recognise his style from the brilliant Gerry Rafferty album covers of the 70s. You can read more at the band’s website.
Read about Edinburgh International Harp Festival: 10th – 15th April 2015
The Edinburgh International Harp Festival announces an exuberant line-up of harping talent in its 34th year. With Scotland’s clarsach at its heart, the festival showcases all aspects of the harp with a host of concerts, courses and workshops in a welcoming and inclusive environment, cementing its reputation as the friendliest harp festival in the world. […]
Trad Talk 2015 – Are you going?
As traditions and art forms in Scotland feed off each other, and communities engage with their local heritage, this development day provides the perfect annual occasion for debate, information, inspirations, grumbles, ideas, friendships and strengthening networks. With so much in Scotland at ‘crossing points’ what can bring focus and energy to help realise the traditional […]
Please help Andy M Stewart get mobile
This is an appeal from Angie Stewart Hollin. ANDY M STEWART is my brother. Mainly though, he will be known to many the world over as a singer/songwriter, a more public figure. In that professional role he has delighted and moved the hearts of many, has brought tears of laughter and joy, as well as […]