It was brilliant to be back at Tinto Summer School last week at Wiston Lodge, South Lanarkshire. As ever the young people were amazing and great fun to be with. Our tutors (Alana MacInnes, Graham Rorie, Josie Duncan, Luc McNally and Michael Biggins) were fabulous too and made lots of great music with the young […]
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Not long now! Book your place Tinto Summer School 2022!
Tinto Summer School is back in person for 2022! We look forward to welcoming participants aged 11 (entering high school) – 17 back to Wiston Lodge (South Lanarkshire) for a great week of music, song, fun and campfire song! The dates are 4-9th July 2022 and all instruments and levels of ability are welcome. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tinto-summer-school-2022-new-tickets-290377666417 […]
Edinburgh Youth Gaitherin Photos 2019
We had a great Edinburgh Youth Gaitherin this year in Leith Theatre. So many talented young people led by great tutors. Here are some fabulous photos taken by Martin Forry. Click on the photo to see them. (If you are still not seeing photos click here)
Tinto Summer School daily vlogs
We had a fantastic week at our annual Tinto Summer School. It’s a brilliant week of tutors and young people learning Scottish music and song. We posted a daily vlog of our activities on Facebook and YouTube to keep people keep up todate. You can also see them below. Last week we posted a link […]
Tinto Summer School vlogs
In the first week of July we had a very successful week at Tinto Summer School. There was lots of music made, football played and great times had. Watch our daily vlogs below.
Great new Tinto Summer School new video!
Thanks to Martin Forry who has made this great video of Tinto Summer School. It was filmed the first week of July 2015 at our week long summer school in Wiston Lodge, Wiston, South Lanarkshire and features the young people having a great time with Scottish music. It also features interviews from Simon Thoumire, Paul […]
Listen to this! Trad music made at Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
In the last week of October Simon Thoumire set out for the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance to work with students on the music BA course. Itt was going to be fun as he had worked with them before and they are all great musicians. There were about 50 in the orchestra and he arranged tunes and a […]
Listen to the recordings from Tinto Summer School
We had a fantastic concert at Coulter Hall on 10th July with the Tinto Summer School participants and we managed to record it! Have a listen and come to Tinto next year 🙂 The dates are 4-9th July 2016.
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
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 […]