It was brilliant to get along to Edinburgh’s Tradfest festival last week to present Archie Fisher with a Landmark Award celebrating his 55 years as a professional musician. This is some achievement! Archie was performing in the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the 2nd May. The first half of gig was in conversation with Dave Francis […]
Stonehaven Folk Club Landmark Presentation
We had a lovely time in Stonehaven on Saturday night – 4th March – presenting Stonehaven Folk club with their Hands Up for Trad Landmark Award. The club started in 1987 and has been going strong ever since. This was a celebration weekend for them and they had Dallahan, The Spiers Family and Siobhan Miller […]
Irvine Folk Club Presentation 19th October 2016
We had a lovely time at the Irvine Folk Club anniversary dinner. We eat lovely steak pie and desert and then presented Joyce Hodge with the Landmark Award! You can watch the video below. Here is the text of Simon’s speech. There must have been something in the air in 1966! The Traditional Music and […]
Traditional Music and Song Association Landmark Presentation
It was a real pleasure to head up to Blairgowrie on Saturday evening and take part in the sold out TMSA 50th Anniversary concert. 1966, the TMSA emerged from the Blairgowrie Folk Festival and to celebrate this they decided to put on a concert to remember the first festival. Singing and playing were Archie Fisher, […]
Peatbog Faeries 1991 – 2016 Landmark Award Presentation
Congratulations to the Peatbog Faeries for 25 years as a band. This is no mean feat as I’m sure you will agree – I mean The Beatles only lasted 10 years! Hands Up for Trad went along to their gig in Cottiers, Glasgow on June 16th to present their Landmark Award and as ever the […]
Fèis Rois 1986 – 2016 Landmark Award Presentation
I headed up to beautiful Ullapool last weekend to teach at Fèis Rois’s Adult Feis and present the organisation with one of our Landmark Awards. I hadn’t been before but what an event! 265 adults in Ullapool learning traditional music – how amazing is that?! I was working with the groupwork classes and had a […]
Feis Rois are 30!
Fèis Rois turn 30 years old in 2016. Originally set up in 1986 by visionary people the organisation has gone on to be a leading cultural organisation setting examples for us all to follow. They will be presented with Hands Up for Trad’s Landmark Award on Saturday 30th April. Read about their history below. A […]