{"id":4336,"date":"2016-02-11T12:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T12:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2016-02-11T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:00:38","slug":"renewing-the-tradition-the-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/renewing-the-tradition-the-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewing the Tradition – The Songs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ScotSings_(ora-yel)\"<\/a>Renewing the Tradition is an exciting Scotland Sings<\/a> project for 2015 \u2013 2018. The idea is to build a brand new choir repertoire of fresh contemporary arrangements that are seeded by some of Scotland\u2019s best-loved Burns and Gaelic songs. It\u2019ll be available here as an on-line resource. The six songs commissioned so far are below.<\/p>\n

In Ayrshire, Argyll and Bute, Highlands, Perth and Kinross and the Scottish Borders Hands Up for Trad<\/a>\u00a0will\u00a0be running two big singing workshops each year for the next 4 years. These days are open to choirs and individual singers alike and will be led by some of Scotland\u2019s best workshop leaders. We\u2019re also hoping to host some outstanding international workshop leaders too.<\/p>\n

The first workshop each year will fall on the weekend of or after Burns night and is coupled into our innovative new commissioning programme. Each year we\u2019ll invite 3\u00a0great songwriters to choose a Burns song and rewrite it into a modern version in English, Scots or Gaelic that will be taught at the January workshop.<\/p>\n