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 […]
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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 […]
Live At The Star – May 2015 Business Limelight of the Month
Live At The Star are the twenty first recipients of Hands Up for Trad’s Business Limelight Award. The “Limelight’s” are a monthly initiative (launched in October 2012) that recognises the outstanding contributions made by businesses and organisations who contribute, shape and influence the arts and cultural sector in Scotland today. Live At The Star have supported and promoted […]
Robyn Stapleton album launch
BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2014 Robyn Stapleton launches her debut album at this year’s TradFest in Edinburgh on Tuesday 5th May. Fickle Fortune features traditional songs from Scotland and Ireland. Robyn will be joined by band members Kristan Harvey (fiddle), Alistair Iain Paterson (piano & harmonium) & David McNee (guitar). Buy your ticket here http://www.tracscotland.org/festivals/tradfest/events/2665/fickle-fortune-robyn-stapleton
Scotland Live Winners Announced
Hands Up for Trad are very happy to announce our first 3 winners of the Scotland Live Awards! The winners are Dundee Acoustic Music Club, Bishopton Folk Night and Arisaig Club (names to be finalised). Each club will programme 8 nights of music (1 per month) from September 2015. The Scotland Live Awards were launched […]
Can you help G&T fund their Debut Album?
We are four days into recording our debut album in Carrier Waves Studio, Glasgow. We have recorded nine out of the ten tracks which will be on the album. Monday was quite a difficult day as we ran into a lot of unforeseen problems in the studio and only managed to get half a track […]
How to make your own website webinar
Are you solo musician or in a band and want to let more people know about you? Maybe listen to and buy your music / product? Well the best way to do this is to have a website! From a website you can write about yourself or product and tell the world via social media […]
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.
Twentieth Business Limelight Award
I was counting our Business Limelight Awards the other day (as you do…) and I was amazed to see we were at 20! We originally launched The ‘Limelights’ to support businesses who were working in the culture sector. It’s not always the easiest sector to be working in and we wanted to give them something […]
Tinto Ensemble closing date is approaching…
If you are a young musician between 16 and 20 interested in playing in a traditional music ensemble don’t forget to apply to our Tinto Ensemble course. You will be working with top musicians Innes Watson and Laura Beth Salter. It’s a real opportunity to get up close to and learn from two brilliant musicians […]