Towersey Festival is committed to using social networks and digital marketing, however we are quite certain that there is still a place for the odd printed flyer and we will be mailing out our 2015 flyer to between six and seven thousand known bookers and buyers home addresses in mid-April.   If you have a … 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 you 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 with … Continued

Hands Up for Trad are going to start running webinars on April 1st. The first webinar will be on ‘How to make your own CD‘. The webinar aims to guide you through the process of making your music CD and will look at all the steps including budgeting, planning, pressing, cover design, distribution and digital … Continued

Funding opportunity for increasing access to the arts for disabled people and their families   Spirit of 2012 has launched its ‘Spirit of Achievement Arts and Culture Challenge Fund’:http://www.spiritof2012trust.org.uk/spirit-launches-challenge-fund   The open grant round is available for projects across the UK that create opportunities for disabled people of all backgrounds to participate in arts and … Continued

The Folk Music Map is a new project by mapaholic Chris Rust, and has been on the web for just over a week. More than 400 folk clubs have been added by club organisers and members of the public. Chris started this map as a personal project, a way of listing folk clubs that his band … Continued

Tune up, tune in – CalMac Culture’s search for new music talent launches for 2015 Two rising music stars were discovered last year when the UK’s largest ferry network operator launched the CalMac Culture Music competition. Such was the success of this inaugural contest, Caledonian MacBrayne has made the decision to not only repeat it, but, in consultation with … Continued

The Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen has relaunched its website. You can take a look at it here. The Elphinstone Institute is a centre for the study of Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology at the University of Aberdeen. Established in 1995, the Institute researches and promotes the culture of the North and North-East of … Continued

For the second year young traditional musicians based in Scotland are invited to take part in UKM Arctic’s international youth festival in Finnsnes, Northern Norway.

After two successful year-long community music projects, we’re about to start the first phase of Inspire 3 music groups. Inspire works in partnership with community support organisations in Edinburgh to offer vulnerable people affected by issues such as homelessness, mental health problems, poverty and addiction the chance to participate in music. Our previous projects have worked with organisations … Continued