{"id":19194,"date":"2023-06-05T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=19194"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:00:29","slug":"after-school-music-clubs-start-across-the-highlands-thanks-to-new-funding-for-feis-rois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/after-school-music-clubs-start-across-the-highlands-thanks-to-new-funding-for-feis-rois\/","title":{"rendered":"After school music clubs start across the Highlands thanks to new funding for F\u00e8is Rois"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Children and young people across the Highlands will have the opportunity to learn about traditional music from Scotland and around the world in a new series of after school music clubs.
Dingwall-based arts organisation, F\u00e8is Rois, is running four brand new after school music clubs in Alness Academy, Craighill Primary School, Park Primary School and Ullapool Primary School, thanks to some new funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F\u00e8is Club<\/strong>, funded by The Scottish Government\u2019s Youth Music Initiative through its Access to Music Making fund, which is managed by Creative Scotland, will provide children and young people the opportunity to engage with traditional music and explore musical traditions from around the world. The purpose of the YMI Access to Music Making fund is to create access to high-quality music making opportunities out with school time for children and young people aged 0 to 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teya-Jean Bawden, Community Engagement Officer, F\u00e8is Rois<\/strong>, explains: \u201cIt is our aim that F\u00e8is Club will enable children and young people to develop their music and music-making skills by providing a fun and relaxed environment after school for children to listen to, and participate in, traditional music, perhaps for the first time. Due to the pandemic, many children and young people have not had the opportunity to attend live music performances or take up a musical instrument. No musical experience is necessary and we will provide instruments to anyone who would like to learn. We also encourage children who already play to bring along their own instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a stellar team of local musicians leading F\u00e8is Club who will offer taster workshops in a wide range of musical instruments, including tin whistle, ukulele, percussion, fiddle, accordion and guitar, as well as singing together as a group. Young people who attend will have the opportunity to learn about Scottish traditional music from the community in which they live, but also have the chance to explore folk music repertoire from other cultures around the world, including the cultures of New Scots living in the Highlands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F\u00e8is Club will take place once a week during school term and be open to pupils of the school where it is hosted. The sessions are free and must be booked in advance due to limited places.
The dates for before the summer holidays are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n