Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2023 list has been announced to celebrate just some of the women working in Scotland. Launched as part of International Women’s Day 2023, we shine the spotlight on 15 women who all contribute towards Scotland’s cultural landscape through their work. Read the list here. We […]
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Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2023: Su-a Lee
Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2023 list has been announced to celebrate just some of the women working in Scotland. Launched as part of International Women’s Day 2023, we shine the spotlight on 15 women who all contribute towards Scotland’s cultural landscape through their work. Read the list here. We […]
Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2023: Christine Kydd
Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2023 list has been announced to celebrate just some of the women working in Scotland. Launched as part of International Women’s Day 2023, we shine the spotlight on 15 women who all contribute towards Scotland’s cultural landscape through their work. Read the list here. We […]
Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2023: Josie Duncan
Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2023 list has been announced to celebrate just some of the women working in Scotland. Launched as part of International Women’s Day 2023, we shine the spotlight on 15 women who all contribute towards Scotland’s cultural landscape through their work. Read the list here. We […]
Tinto Summer School 2023
The inaugural Tinto Summer School, originally named The Millennium Summer School, took place in 2000 at Wiston Lodge, where it continues to be held today. Throughout the years, we have hosted thousands of young musicians who come together to learn Scottish music and song, making new friends and having a fantastic time. We eagerly anticipate […]
Jennifer Wrigley: “Catch the Rhythmic Orkney Tide and Ride”
Legendary fiddler Jennifer Wrigley will return to Scotland in early 2023 bringing a star-studded line up of traditional music stars to play alongside the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland traditional music students for the premiere of her major new compositional work “Jennifer Wrigley: Catch the Rhythmic Orkney Tide and Ride”, presented in partnership with Sound and Music, London, […]
New Novel by Angus Peter Campbell – Electricity
Electricity brings us back to an upbringing we may not have experienced but can certainly relate to. Taking a step back into her Hebridean childhood, Granny writes to her granddaughter in Australia, decorating her notebooks with hand-drawn scribbles and doodles. Though she may now live in Edinburgh, she relives her memories with a sense of […]
Folk Legends Capercaillie to Play 40th Orkney Folk Festival, Backed by Local Orchestra
The globally renowned Scottish folk group Capercaillie are set to appear at the 40th Orkney Folk Festival in May, in an unprecedented collaboration with a local orchestra led by Orkney Schools Instrumental Music Service, supported by players from Orkney Camerata and Kirkwall Town Band. Fast approaching their own 40th anniversary, Capercaillie join 24 acts already […]
Second wave of artists announced for HebCelt
The second wave of artists has been announced for the internationally acclaimed music festival HebCelt, including local superstars Peat and Diesel and festival favourites Skerryvore who have joined Scottish duo The Proclaimers as part of the headliner roster. The exciting additions to this year’s line-up will join an eclectic array of previously announced artists, including multi award-winning power trio Talisk and celtic fusion outfit Niteworks. […]
New Hands Up for Trad TV 39 le Niteworks, Valtos, Peatbog Faeries, Tarran agus Breabach.
Have a watch of the latest Hands Up for Trad TV with Niteworks, Valtos, Peatbog Faeries, Tarran agus Breabach. A’ Ghrian by NiteworksGura mise tha fo Èislein feat. Ellen MacDonaldhttps://www.niteworksband.com Liberate by Valtos and Project Smokwww.valtosband.co.uk Peatbog Faerieshttps://peatbogfaeries.com Set of Reels by Tarranhttps://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/handsupfortrad/tarran-battle-of-the-folk-bands-winners-2023/ Fàs by BreabachTrack – Fàshttps://www.breabach.com