Scotland Sings has just launched Chorus Awards. The aim of these awards is to showcase outstanding practice and great things going on in Scotland’s choirs and to celebrate and honour the people who are promoting singing together. The awards are not about the biggest choir or the best singers, it’s to celebrate the unique stories … Continued

SC&T, based in Aberdeenshire, aims to promote awareness and growth of Scottish traditional culture, and to do so in a way which brings enjoyment, encouragement, enthusiasm and a sense of community. Due to the recent retiral of two of their board members they have vacancies for at least two new members. This is a great … Continued

Tarbert (Loch Fyne), Argyll, with a series of music, art and language workshops throughout 2015, culminating in a concert of new music and an art/photography exhibition on 5 December 2015.

‘Katie Bairdie had a coo – but she’d rather hae an ipad.’ Since the start of the year, Frieda Morrison, Sharon Hassan and drama specialist Margaret Hearne have been pioneering a new approach to teaching traditional songs in Aberdeenshire Schools. The Greig-Duncan Song project is a Youth Music Imitative supported by Aberdeenshire Council and Creative Scotland … Continued

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