{"id":15989,"date":"2022-05-23T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2022-05-25T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T08:32:46","slug":"battle-of-the-folk-bands-post-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/battle-of-the-folk-bands-post-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of The Folk Bands 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hands Up for Trad are inviting bands to send in a demo to take part in The Battle of the Folk Bands 2023 competition to be held at Glasgow\u2019s Celtic Connections Festival&nbsp;on Saturday January 21st 2023 at 2pm.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/battle-of-the-folk-bands-2023\/\">ENTER HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are in a band or have an idea for a band that you haven\u2019t tried out yet this could be for you! We want musicians to take a chance and make a band that you might never have thought of! Your band can have as many as 5 members and as little as 3. it can be a song band or instrumental or a mixture of the two. You don\u2019t need to have performed any gigs yet. All you have to do is upload 2 demo mp3s (no bigger than 4MBs each) and a brief resume using the form below. These will be listened to by a selected panel of musicians who are looking for musicality and originality and the 4 best entries will get through to perform at battle of the folk bands at Celtic Connections on January 21st 2023. 1 winner will be chosen at the concert. If you are having trouble uploading MP3s \u2013 don\u2019t worry. Fill in the form and email Hands Up for Trad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TdYyVYjuGuA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Deira winning Battle of The Folk Bands 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The prizes are: performances at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticconnections.com\">Celtic Connections<\/a> and one day recording at <a href=\"https:\/\/glowormrecording.com\">GloWorm Recording<\/a> in Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deadline for submissions is Sunday 30th October 2022. Bands will be informed on the week of 7th November if they have made it through to Battle of The Folk Bands Final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/glowormrecording.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2022\/05\/logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16105\" width=\"206\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2022\/05\/logo.png 637w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2022\/05\/logo-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2022\/05\/logo-24x11.png 24w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2022\/05\/logo-36x17.png 36w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2022\/05\/logo-48x23.png 48w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2022\/05\/logo-600x285.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands Up for Trad are inviting bands to send in a demo to take part in The Battle of the Folk Bands 2023 competition to be held at Glasgow\u2019s Celtic Connections Festival&nbsp;on Saturday January 21st 2023 at 2pm.&nbsp;ENTER HERE. If you are in a band or have an idea for a band that you haven\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"simon","author_link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/author\/simon\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcv15g-49T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16108,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions\/16108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}