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
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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 […]
Trad Music Spotlight: The Shee
Hands Up for Trad’s Trad Music Spotlight is a monthly feature on a band or solo artist. It was first launched in February 2015 and features musicians who are working in the trad scene – both in Scotland and around the world. We asked The Shee a few questions. What’s happening? We are on tour […]
Want to make a CD? Watch our webinar!
Have you have ever wanted to make a CD but don’t know how? Do you have a set of songs or tunes that you have sang for years and want to get recorded? Well let’s change that! Why not watch our ‘How to make a CD’ webinar by Simon Thoumire and find out how you […]
Young Scot Award Finalist! by Claire Hastings
I was very excited to find out this month that I have been selected as a finalist in the Arts category for the Young Scot awards! Especially as I had no idea I had been nominated! Since its launch in 2006, the Sunday Mail Young Scot Awards has celebrated the inspirational contributions of thousands of […]