
{"id":4274,"date":"2015-11-02T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2015-11-02T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:44:40","slug":"january-workshops-join-us-in-bringing-new-songs-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/january-workshops-join-us-in-bringing-new-songs-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"January Workshops &#8211; Join us in bringing new songs to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our popular Renewing the Tradition workshops are back in January 2016 and we&#8217;re looking forward to sharing the new songs we&#8217;ve commissioned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/files\/2015\/02\/SS-5-cm-square-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3517 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/files\/2015\/02\/SS-5-cm-square-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Harmony Singing\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/files\/2015\/02\/SS-5-cm-square-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/files\/2015\/02\/SS-5-cm-square-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/files\/2015\/02\/SS-5-cm-square-2-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/files\/2015\/02\/SS-5-cm-square-2.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of the project, every January we ask renowned songwriters in Scotland to add to our growing repertoire. Penny Stone, David Francis and Mairi Campbell have responded to the brief to take Robert Burns as inspiration and write songs for singers today. Penny&#8217;s song, <em>Sing a New Song O,\u00a0<\/em>takes lines from <em>The Tree of Liberty<\/em> as a starting point: &#8220;Fair freedom, standing by the tree, her songs did loudly ca\u2019, man;\u00a0She sang a sang o\u2019 Liberty, which pleas\u2019d them ane and a\u2019, man.&#8221; David and Mairi were inspired by <em>A Fiddler in the North<\/em> (sometimes known as <em>Amang the<\/em> Trees) and <em>A Man&#8217;s a Man for A&#8217; That\u00a0<\/em>for their song <em>There&#8217;s Some Wad Say.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Argyll &amp; Bute and the Highlands we&#8217;ll be teaching <em>Sennibh<\/em> <em>b\u00f2idhchead<\/em> (Sing of Beauty), a newly commissioned contemporary harmony song by Eilidh Mackenzie and Anne Frater, which will act as an introduction for non Gaelic speakers, while offering fresh material for those already experienced in Gaelic singing.<\/p>\n<p>All of the workshops are open to choirs and individual singers alike. The cost for the day is \u00a312.50 with a free place offered for each group booking of five\u00a0places. More information and booking details can be found at the links below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scotland-sings-alloway.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Alloway | Saturday 23rd January 2016 | With Christine Kydd<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scotland-sings-comrie.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Comrie | Saturday 23rd January 2016 | With Penny Stone<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scotland-sings-strachur.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Strachur | Saturday 23rd January 2016 | With Eilidh Mackenzie and Amy Lord<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scotland-sings-drumnadrochit.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Drumnadrochit | Sunday 24th January 2016 | With Eilidh Mackenzie and Mairi Campbell<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scotland-sings-lauder.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Lauder | Sunday 24th January 2016 | With Penny Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"featured-news,news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1446467348\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"January Workshops &#8211; Join us in bringing new songs to life\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our popular Renewing the Tradition workshops are back in January 2016 and we&#8217;re looking forward to sharing the new songs we&#8217;ve commissioned. &nbsp; As part of the project, every January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":3517,"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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured-news","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/files\/2015\/02\/SS-5-cm-square-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}