{"id":437,"date":"2013-11-19T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/?p=437"},"modified":"2013-11-19T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T10:03:26","slug":"sponsor-spotlight-traditional-music-and-song-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/sponsor-spotlight-traditional-music-and-song-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor Spotlight: Traditional Music and Song Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tmsa.org.uk\/music-association-scotland\/logo-tmsatextwebgif.gif\" width=\"196\" height=\"78\" \/>Another long time sponsor of the Scots Trad Music Awards is the Traditional Music and Song Association. They have sponsored Scots Singer of the Year since the start and few years in we changed the title of the Award to the Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year in honour of their late Convenor. Read more about the organisation below. (Have you voted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/voting\/\">MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards<\/a> yet? Do so <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/voting\/\">here<\/a>! )<\/p>\n<p>Since its foundation in 1966, The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmsa.org.uk\/\">Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland<\/a> has helped to foster and promote Scotland&#8217;s unique musical traditions.<\/p>\n<p>The TMSA is a membership organisation open to all. Their members include music enthusiasts, festival fans, amateur and professional performers, tutors, academics and entire families. They\u00a0encourage both widespread popular participation and individual artistic excellence. Their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmsa.org.uk\/regional-tmsa-branches.asp\">branches<\/a>\u00a0provide opportunities for participation (as performer and audience) for people of all ages and abilities by running festivals, ceilidhs, concerts, workshops, tours and competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmsa.org.uk\/regional-tmsa-branches.asp\">branches<\/a>\u00a0are each involved in sustaining the specific cultural traditions of their area, as well as those of Scotland as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmsa.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.tmsa.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another long time sponsor of the Scots Trad Music Awards is the Traditional Music and Song Association. They have sponsored Scots Singer of the Year since the start and few years in we changed the title of the Award to the Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year in honour of their late Convenor. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}