Composers of music, of all backgrounds and nationalities, are warmly invited to present an original piece of music for performance on a newly invented musical instrument – the “Lindsay System” Scottish Smallpipes Chanter. The piece can be of any length, and should be suitable for solo performance, accompanied by the pipes’ own drones on “A”. […]
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New funding opportunity – Career Development Bursaries
Help Musicians have recently launched our new Career Development Bursaries scheme which may be of interest to the musicians you work with and your wider network. The new scheme has been set up to fund exceptional career development opportunities for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, songwriters or small groups aged between 21 – 30. Grants will […]
Sing for Water 2015
We had an amazing day in Edinburgh on Saturday 27th June with 150 singers from all over Scotland joining together to sing songs from around the world to raise awareness and money for WaterAid. WaterAid works in some of the poorest countries of the world providing clean water and safe toilets for communities. To date, Sing […]
Don’t miss our July Foot Stompin’ Free Scottish Music Podcast
Here is the latest Foot Stompin’ podcast from Hands Up for Trad featuring lots of great Scottish music. We start of the podcast with new band Dosca who all hail from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Next up is a song from Jim Sutherland’s Struileag project. It’s called Oran a’ Khookaburra (The Song of the […]
Tramps and Hawkers
Hi everyone, I have been being mentored in ballad and folk singing by Anne Neilson, since October 2014. It’s been a great journey, so far –appropriately I was with Anne today demonstrating my efforts thus far on “Tramps and Hawkers” a beautiful “Road Trip” song. I have done cabaret singing for a number of years […]
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!
Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme is in the running to win a National Lottery Award,
Great news! The Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme is in the running to win a National Lottery Award, the annual search for the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects. (http://tinyurl.com/pmvawhl) Beating off stiff competition from 620 organisations to reach the public voting stage, the Programme is now competing against the six shortlisted organisations to be crowned the winner […]
Don’t be late!! Enter the Young Trad Award
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.
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