{"id":2723,"date":"2014-11-10T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:25:52","slug":"scotlandsmusic-taigh-na-teud-october-2013-business-limelight-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/scotlandsmusic-taigh-na-teud-october-2013-business-limelight-award\/","title":{"rendered":"ScotlandsMusic \u2013 Taigh na Teud: October 2013 Business Limelight Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlandsmusic.com\/Home\">ScotlandsMusic \u2013 Taigh na Teud<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>are the tenth recipients of Hands Up for Trad\u2019s Business Limelight Award. The \u201cLimelight\u2019s\u201d are a monthly initiative (launched in October 2012) that recognises the outstanding contributions made by businesses and organisations who contribute, shape and influence the arts and cultural sector in Scotland today. ScotlandsMusic and Taigh na Teud have made a lifetime commitment to the promotion of Scottish traditional music and their books are a mainstay of the whole Scottish scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Company name:<\/strong>\u00a0ScotlandsMusic \u2013 Taigh na Teud<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Scotlands Music\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-photos-d-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-prn2\/c12.12.155.155\/165949_575027682507874_1275216539_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"155\" \/>What is your principle company activity?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe company sells many collections of Scottish music books, CDs and\u00a0DVDs and is the foremost Scottish sheet music publisher. The books\u00a0include the Highland Tunes for the Fiddle series, Sessions Tunes for\u00a0Scottish Fiddlers and the well known Ceilidh Collections as well as<br \/>\nmany other books for Scots song, guitar, accordion, mandolin, harp and\u00a0more. We also produce some Gaelic books and story CDs and have just\u00a0produced a new Tintin in Gaelic and Scots, An T-Eilean Dubh and The\u00a0Derk Isle which are proving very popular.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When and where did the company first start trading?<\/strong><br \/>\nScotlandsMusic.com \/ Taigh na Teud was set up in 1985 by Christine\u00a0Martin in Tain, Ross- shire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What made you want to work in Scottish culture?<\/strong><br \/>\nBrought up in rural Ayrshire I had a great fiddler living next door so\u00a0as a child I got interested through the music I played with him and by\u00a0being in the school folk group. I studied classical music as there\u00a0were then no opportunities to do Scottish music and I went to the\u00a0RSAMD (now RCS) and studied violin and piano. Alasdair and I moved to\u00a0Easter Ross where I was strings teacher in the schools. There I met\u00a0Dagger Gordon and Duncan MacGillivray and we formed a band, the\u00a0original \u201cGizzenbriggs\u201d, which played around venues in the\u00a0Highlands for about eight years. During that time some of the young\u00a0fiddlers I was teaching in school and a group of adults asked fiddler\u00a0Ian MacBeth and I to start a fiddle group and it was my job to choose\u00a0and write out the sets by hand each week. After requests from people\u00a0for the tune sets I decided to make them into a book and so the first\u00a0Ceol na Fidhle was born. I have always enjoyed working in Scottish\u00a0culture either teaching instruments or making books and CDs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tell us of any particular company highlights?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winning the Mod literature prize for Orain an Eilein (Skye Gaelic\u00a0Songs) as this book was 6 years in the making.<\/li>\n<li>Receiving a\u00a0Business\u00a0Transfer Parnership award (BTP) with Napier University to enable me to learn how to make multi \u2013 angle video learning materials and short films.<\/li>\n<li>Making the Angus Fraser manuscript available as a book for musicians to study as it had never been previously published.<\/li>\n<li>Launching our brand new website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotlandsmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.scotlandsmusic.com<\/a>\u00a0last week after spending the last 9 months helping to make it has to be a highlight too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are your company\u2019s plans for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new Borders Fiddle Book as a joint book and CD project with Peter\u00a0Shepheard (Springthyme Music)<\/li>\n<li>Working with Alistair MacCulloch on the new RCS repertoires and books\u00a0for the 2014 traditional music exam syllabus.<\/li>\n<li>Working with Simon Thoumire to publish the 2014 collection of Scottish\u00a0tunes being gathered presently for launch in a book next year.<\/li>\n<li>Making some more films and tune videos for Youtube<\/li>\n<li>Learning more about new media for marketing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How will you celebrate receiving Hands Up for Trad\u2019s\u00a0Business\u00a0Limelight\u00a0award?<\/strong><br \/>\nAs it is an October award we will probably be at the Mod so we will go\u00a0to one of the lively concerts there and the ceilidh afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Taigh na Teud Music Publishers &#8211;\u00a0ScotlandsMusic<br \/>\n13 Upper Breakish<br \/>\nIsle of Skye<br \/>\nIV42 8PY<br \/>\nScotland<br \/>\n+44(0)1471822528<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotlandsmusic.com\/\">www.scotlandsmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ScotlandsMusic \u2013 Taigh na Teud\u00a0are the tenth recipients of Hands Up for Trad\u2019s Business Limelight Award. 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