Join us as we celebrate 20 years of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland on 2nd April at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Featuring special guests, Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton. We are a charitable project ran by The National Piping Centre creating unique individual development experiences for young pipers and drummers throughout Scotland. Our End of Year Concert will feature […]
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Trio of Scottish talent unveiled as ButeFest 2023 headliners
ButeFest, the much-loved boutique west coast music festival, has announced the first acts topping the bill for its seventh edition between Friday 28th – Sunday 30th July 2023. A raft of pop, indie and folk acts are set to take to the stage across the weekend, with Scottish rock greats Big Country, folk-pop festival powerhouses Skerryvore and bringing the […]
Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2023 List
Hands Up for Trad exists to promote Scottish traditional music and culture through education, information and advocacy. Our core purpose is to promote and shine the spotlight on the diversity of talent in Scotland. Ideally there would be no place for a list promoting the work of women but until true equity and equality exist […]
Edinburgh International Harp Festival 7th – 11th April 2023, George Watson’s College, Edinburgh
The Edinburgh International Harp Festival (EIHF) returns for its 42nd year. After two years online and a fully hybrid event in 2022, they are excited to announce to be back in person (with a few Zoom events) to new home, George Watson’s College. With Scotland’s clarsach at its heart, the festival showcases all aspects of […]
Award-winning music group, The Kiltearn Fiddlers, return with new leader
Lauren MacColl to lead monthly sessions in Dingwall for young musicians in S1-6
An award-winning music group, which started more than 30 years ago in Kiltearn Primary School, has been relaunched after a break due to Covid, with a former member now leading the group. The Kiltearn Fiddlers was established by Alpha Munro as part of Fèis Rois’ weekly music classes. Alpha Munro worked tirelessly to provide young […]
Margaret Bennett Receives 2022 Iona and Peter Opie Prize
Margaret Bennett (Professor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) received the 2022 Iona and Peter Opie Prize. This prize, awarded by the Children’s Folklore section, is awarded approximately every two years to the author of the best recently published scholarly book on children’s folklore. Margaret Bennett is author of Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952 (Grace Note […]
The Scots Language Publication Grant is open for applications.
Funded by the Scottish Government and administered by Scottish Book Trust, the Scots Language Publication Grant was created by the Scots Language Resource Network to support Scottish and UK publishers to publish and promote work written in Scots. The grant is designed to cover publishing costs such as editing, advances, illustrations and cover design, typesetting, […]
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 […]