Showcase Scotland Expo will be hosting a trade stand at Babel Med Music in France next month (17th-19th March, more info on the event here http://www.dock-des-suds.org/babelmedmusic2016/en/).  Get items to Active Events this coming Monday for inclusion in the stand. This is a great opportunity to promote your music to the European industry at minimal expense to you. All you have … Continued

ABC Creative Music are an organisation aiming to produce programmes which engineer grown-up musical creativity into child-friendly resources. Their new programmes focus on Scots and Gaelic language (among others). ABC Favourites for Burns Night – ABC teamed up with leading folk singers Karine Polwart and Inge Thomson to produce resources that allow children to not only … Continued

Five weeks of Americana fiddling and more, coming up Thursday 25th February! Following our hugely popular five week course into Scandinavian style and repertoire, tutored by Marit Falt, we are looking forward to a new run of classes on Americana with Rona Wilkie. This class is open to any instrument in C Clef and will … Continued

Places at Tinto Summer School are highly sought-after and sell out quickly. Hands Up For Trad have announced the date registrations for 2016 will open: Registration for all the Tinto Schools of 2016 will commence at 10.00am on Saturday 27th February. I will be in my office on-hand to solve any problems as usual. The … Continued

The Tinto Ensembles weekend is 3-5th June 2016. After two very well received ensemble courses Hands Up For Trad are going to do it again! This is a course for five young aspiring musicians (age 16-20) to team up with two professionals including Laura Beth Salter (mandolin, song). The musicians will work together to create … Continued

Never.Give-up.Your.Dreams (NGYD) is a group of international artists that seeks to promote culture through art. Their new project is A Reference Point of Hope (ARPOH),seeking to promote an incultural exhange between artists (musicians, storytellers, illustrators etc) of a community to employ their language, artistic styles and musical instruments in a joint effort to present their story in such a … Continued

HypeSoundFREE Electronic/Live Composing & Collaboration course in Glasgow Featuring top DJ/Production Outfit Tigerstyle and maverick instrumentalist Michael Bryan 6 monthly weekend sessions bringing together young live musicians and electronic composers (aged 14-25) with inspiring professional musicians, finishing with a live performance and demo recording.  Experimenting with live music and electronic production techniques:– Work with other young … Continued

CALLING ALL ASPIRING YOUNG MUSICIANSMUSIC FOR YOUTH IN ASSOCIATION WITH PLATFORM PRESENT EXCHANGEBE SEEN / BE HEARD / BE INSPIRED Date: Friday 4 & Saturday 5 March 2016Venue: Platform, Glasgow PERFORMERS DEADLINE MONDAY 8TH FEBRUARY 2016Apply to PERFORM or register to ATTEND: www.mfy.org.uk/exchange  Young Scotland based musicians are being urged to apply now to perform at Exchange 2016, which returns … Continued

Perth Concert Hall has gathered some of Scotland and Ireland’s finest traditional musicians – and some very special guests from Mongolia! – for The Celtic Sessions (Na Seiseanach Ceilteach); three evenings of world-class acoustic music in January, February and April. Firmly established as Scotland’s leading folk band, Breabach unites the talents of Calum MacCrimmon (pipes/whistles/bouzouki), … Continued

Artful Minds is a new Hearts & Minds training approach for artists (of all art forms) interested in working with people living with dementia.