Comfort Of Voices is a national gathering for community choir and song leaders at all levels of experience and working in any genre, taking place on 24th and 25th Sept 2022 […]
Renewing the Tradition Workshops Return November 2017
We’re back this Autumn with our penultimate season of Renewing the Tradition workshops. This time 5 fantastic tutors in 5 new venues will lead the day with material of their […]
Music Strikes A Chord With Scottish Communities
HANDS UP FOR TRAD ANNOUNCE CHORUS COMMUNITY MUSIC AWARDS 2017 WINNERS AFTER PUBLIC VOTE Hands Up for Trad unveiled the winners of the Chorus Community Music Awards 2017 by streaming […]
CALL FOR SONGWRITERS LOOKING TO HIT THE RIGHT NOTE IN SCOTS AND GAELIC
MUSICIANS CAN WIN £500 & TOP-CLASS TUITION WITH HANDS UP FOR TRAD COMPETITION After an incredibly successful debut year, Nòs Ùr is set to return giving Gaelic and Scot’s Song […]
Scotland Sings February 2017 Singing Weekends
Scotland Sings’ popular singing weekends are back this February 2017 and this time we are extremely excited to be working with three great new songs written by Rab Noakes, Eric Bogle and Alyth […]
Chorus Awards Announcement live on Facebook
We will be broadcasting the Chorus Awards announcement live on Facebook tomorrow using live video via our Hands Up for Trad Facebook Page. Click on the link below to watch on Wednesday […]
Nos Ùr – Scots and Gaelic song competition
Hands Up for Trad launches the 2016 Gaelic and Scots songwriting competition: Nòs Ùr (New Style), in partnership with Creative Scotland on Tuesday March 1st 2016. Gaelic and Scot’s Song […]
Renewing the Tradition – The Songs!
Renewing the Tradition is an exciting Scotland Sings project for 2015 – 2018. The idea is to build a brand new choir repertoire of fresh contemporary arrangements that are seeded […]
The Craigie Chanters
About eighteen months ago, Dave Dewar, one of the organisers of Ayrshire’s Craigie Folk Club, decided that a singing group comprising of attendees at the folk club might be a […]
Chorus Awards Winners Announced!
The results are in! We are delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Chorus Awards. There were over 150 nominations from every corner of the country sharing unusual, unique […]