BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 2021 – Open for entries!

The BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 2021 has launched.

If you are a singer or instrumentalist aged between 16 and 27 with a passion for traditional music, you can apply now and you could win this prestigious title, an additional recording session with BBC Radio Scotland, a performance at the Scots Trad Music Awards and one year’s membership of Musicians’ Union.

The final event will be broadcast live from the City Halls in Glasgow on 31st January 2021 as part of the Celtic Connections Festival.

So if you are aged 16 to 27, head to bbc.co.uk/youngtrad now to enter. Here you will also find the competition rules and privacy notice.

Entries close at Midnight on the 25th of June 2020

TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland, SCIO SC043009) is a co-operative network which champions our shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and local languages. TRACS brings together the Traditional Music Forum (SCIO SC042867), the Scottish Storytelling Forum (SCIO SC052330) and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland (SCIO SC045085). Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness of Scotland’s places: our intangible cultural heritage. TRACS and the Forums have their registered office at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR. The Storytelling Centre is a partnership project between the Storytelling Forum and The Church of Scotland (SC011353).