Music Pilot Project Older People’s Services, The City of Edinburgh Council This pilot is looking for volunteers to help deliver an exciting new project to share singing in older people’s services, including care homes and day services. Volunteers will sing with service users and help expand community involvement by engaging in a shared interest. We are looking … Continued

The National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music is pleased to announce the dates for this year’s whole school concert tour. This year’s tour is fairly widespread, partly following on from last year’s S6 tour, but also due to an exciting recording project the Centre has been involved in this session.  There are shows in … Continued

Next week, students in their 3rd and 4th years at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will be performing their end of term recitals. These recitals have been gathered into a 3 day ‘Scottish Music Recital Festival’, where the fifteen performers will take to the stage to showcase high quality performances in their chosen disciplines, which include fiddle, … Continued

Artists Conversations: supporting artists working with education and in participatory settings How do we stay nourished as practitioners and as artists? How do we grow as practitioners and as people? How do we encourage participants and ourselves? How do we reflect on our practice, support and listen to each other? Let’s have the conversation we … Continued

Project Overview The Creative Learning Team, Aberdeen City Council invite applications from performing arts practitioners to deliver Lift: A Creative Skills Project. Lift is part of our drive to build thriving, resilient communities and improve wellbeing by giving individuals the ability, motivation and confidence to learn through creative activity. They are seeking experienced practitioners to … Continued

Mr McFall’s Chamber, which regularly collaborates with musicians from the world of traditional music, is celebrating its 20th birthday. Dressing up in lavish costumes, playing music upside down, shouting at the audience and someone dancing to Webern – a Mr McFall’s Chamber concert is not your average night out. But neither is this your average … Continued

Young Scot are currently working in partnership with Creative Scotland, around the National Youth Arts Strategy. As part of this project, they are piloting the recruitment of Arts Ambassadors from 11 key areas across Scotland.  They are looking for young people aged 13 to 25, and they should be confident in networking with creative professionals and … Continued

Edinburgh Live Music Census is a ground breaking piece of research being co-ordinated by The University of Edinburgh, with the co-operation of the City Council and the city’s music industry in response to the on-going concerns about the challenges facing Edinburgh’s live music venues. The research will provide a unique opportunity for musicians, who work … Continued

MU Officer Caroline Sewell, along with colleagues from MCPS and PRS for Music, will be visiting various locations across Scotland over the next few months and invites MU members to book a 1-2-1 advice session. You may have questions about your career and how best to move forward; or perhaps you have a legal query … Continued

The Traditional Music Forum is looking for a membership officer.  The role, which is part-time freelance, is to support the TMF Co-ordinator in developing membership and communications with the membership, and to assist on all aspects of the delivery of the organisation’s mission and key objectives as laid out in the Work Programme.  The initial … Continued