{"id":20054,"date":"2024-01-21T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2024-01-21T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:51:47","slug":"battle-of-the-folk-bands-winners-2024-megan-macdonald-chloe-bryce-calum-mcilroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/battle-of-the-folk-bands-winners-2024-megan-macdonald-chloe-bryce-calum-mcilroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of The Folk Bands Winners 2024: Megan MacDonald, Chlo\u00eb Bryce &#038; Calum McIlroy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Megan MacDonald, Chlo\u00eb Bryce &amp; Calum McIlroy who won Battle of The Folk Bands on Saturday 20th January in the Drygate Brewery, Glasgow. Battle of The Folk Bands is a Hands Up for Trad project which is part of Celtic Connections festival. The event sells out every year and the enthusiastic audience is treated to a brilliant afternoon of music. Watch Megan MacDonald, Chlo\u00eb Bryce &amp; Calum McIlroy&#8217;s winning set below.<\/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\/MBYXJrr7heA?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 class=\"wp-element-caption\">Five bands reached the final and they all performed brilliantly. They were <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/battle-of-the-folk-bands-2024-fidra-2\/\">Fidra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/battle-of-the-folk-bands-2024-james-bauld-trio-2\/\">James Bauld Trio<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/battle-of-the-folk-bands-2024-magnus-turpie-combo-2\/\">Magnus Turpie Combo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/battle-of-the-folk-bands-2024-megan-macdonald-chloe-bryce-calum-mcilroy-2\/\">, Megan MacDonald, Chlo\u00eb Bryce &amp; Calum McIlroy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/battle-of-the-folk-bands-2024-ril-og-2\/\"> and R\u00edl \u00d3g<\/a><\/strong>. Click on the links to read more about them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to try you luck in Battle of The Folk Bands join Hands Up for Trad&#8217;s weekly newsletter to receive information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Megan MacDonald, Chlo\u00eb Bryce &amp; Calum McIlroy who won Battle of The Folk Bands on Saturday 20th January in the Drygate Brewery, Glasgow. Battle of The Folk Bands is a Hands Up for Trad project which is part of Celtic Connections festival. The event sells out every year and the enthusiastic audience is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20055,"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":[91,9,37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-battle-of-the-folk-bands","8":"category-news","9":"category-newsletter","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2024\/01\/battle-winner-still.jpg","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2024\/01\/battle-winner-still-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2024\/01\/battle-winner-still-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"simon","author_link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/author\/simon\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcv15g-5ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054","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=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20058,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions\/20058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}