The entry deadline for the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 2016 is Friday 3rd July. Don’t be late!! You can have a year like our 2015 winner Claire Hastings. Get all the details here to enter the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award.
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A wonderful week with the BBC by Claire Hastings
I have finally had time to reflect on what was a wonderful and very memorable week of performances with the BBC! Starting on Wednesday the 3rd of June, Top Floor Taivers were invited to perform for BBC at the Quay – a five day pop-up festival taking place at BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow, on […]
Tinto Summer School Tutors 2015
We have a great range of tutors at the 2015 Tinto Summer Schools. We asked each of them a few questions! Tinto Ensembles Innes Watson Laura Beth Salter Tinto week 1 Hannah Read Rachel Newton Shona Mooney Dave Milligan Sarah Hayes Innes Watson Tinto Tasters Tina Rees Ewan MacPherson Rua MacMillan
BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award is open for entries!
Opening date 19th May Are you aged between 16 and 27 and love playing and singing trad music? Why not enter the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award? This is now the sixteenth year of this award and it is exciting to get the process started to see who the 2016 winner will be! Scots singer […]
Dinny miss Scots Language Radio
“Fit’s Gaan On” Scots Language Radio is a programme that spiks aboot the culture and the ongyans o fowk fa use Scots in their wirkin warl. Accordin tae the last census in Scotland, there are aroon 1.5 million Scots spikkers in this country. Ye dinna hae tae wanner far tae here it – jist ging […]
Bagpiping quiz
Here’s a quiz about the bagpipes! Can you get all the questions correct? Give it a go – it’s not too difficult 🙂 [WpProQuiz 1] If you are in or around Glasgow 10-16th August why not pay a visit to Piping Live festival.
Moniaive and Orkney Folk Festivals by Claire Hastings
Festival season has well and truly begun, and I have recently been performing in opposite ends of Scotland at Moniaive and Orkney Folk Festivals. I love the community feel at folk festivals, and I couldn’t have felt more at home in Moniaive. (Mainly as it’s only half an hour from where my parents live!) Roddy […]
Young Scottish Jazz Musician
I had the real pleasure of being asked to judge the Young Scottish Jazz Musician semi-finals on Saturday. I’ve listened to the final of this competition on this radio since it was started but this was the first time I’ve been to see it live. I was astounded at the quality of these musicians – […]
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.
Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards by Claire Hastings
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the 10th Anniversary of the Young Scot Awards at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Since its launch in 2006, the Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards has celebrated the inspirational contributions of thousands of young Scots who have made a difference to communities across Scotland. I was there […]