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Scottish Storytelling Centre celebrates Scotland’s Year of Stories in 2022 Fringe programme

Alan Bissett, Jo Clifford, and Niall Moorjani feature in this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, which will celebrate Scotland’s Year of Stories. The Scottish Storytelling Centre’s 2022 Fringe programme sees some of Scotland’s finest storytellers and performers creating new conversations around live issues, or reflecting on past events that resonate … Continued

Directory of Musicians Spotify Playlist #14

Directory of Musicians Spotify Playlist #14 40 mins of fantastic music from Scotland’s wonderful traditional musicians, including Tina Jordan Rees, Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira, Josie Duncan, Elephant Sessions, Siobhan Miller, Ally Forsyth, Claire Hastings, Rachel Hair & Ruth Keggin, Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton, and Kyle Warren. Follow the TMF on Spotify to hear … Continued

Tina Jordan Rees releases exciting new Tune Book

Tina Jordan Rees is a multi-instrumentalist who composes on flute, whistle and piano. She has just released a brand-new tune book featuring 76 of her original compositions including reels, jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes, as well as 7/8s, 5/8s, polkas and more. The tunes in the first part of this book were all composed on either … Continued

The Dandelion Project: Dig Where You Stand Resource

The Dandelion Project, a creative celebration of growing and community, has published a great new ethnological resource for schools and community groups. The ‘Dig Where You Stand’ resource, created by TRACS’ friends and creative ethnologists, Steve Byrne, Gary West and Mairi McFadyen, provides an introduction to the cultural heritage, traditions, folklore, customs and crafts associated … Continued

Penicuik Community Arts Association presents “Oor Toon”

Six FREE storytelling workshops led by local professional storyteller Ruth Kirkpatrick Saturday 2 July-Tuesday 6 September 2022 Arts Centre, 4 West Street, Penicuik, EH26 9HY Sign up now for a series of six free storytelling workshops, running from 2 July to 6 September, being led by professional storyteller Ruth Kirkpatrick. In these workshops, taking place … Continued

TMSA Event Calendar – FREE opportunity to promote your event, venue, folk club or folk music related business!

TMSA – Traditional Music and Song Association As it appears, that whilst the issues are not completely gone, there is a bit more certainty about planning activity and audiences attending events. So we are now going to re-start compiling the print edition of the TMSA Event Calendar which we’ve been planning to do to help … Continued

Pomegranates 2022

Review by Iliyana Nedkova and Eleanor Sinclair. Video by Euan Gilmour and Nic Gareiss. Images by Iliyana Nedkova The first iteration of Pomegranates – a mini-festival of traditional international dance – initiated and curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland – was conceived to mark International Dance Day on 29 and 30 April 2022 … Continued

Directory of Musicians Spotify Playlist #13

Directory of Musicians Spotify Playlist #13 42 mins of fantastic music from Scotland’s wonderful traditional musicians, including Tiernan Courell, Hannah Rarity, Fred Morrison, Gráinne Brady & Tina Jordan Rees, Ciaran Ryan, Twelfth Day, Alastair Savage, Dougie MacLean & Jamie MacLean, and Kim Carnie. Follow the TMF on Spotify to hear all our playlists

Thistles and Sunflowers

Review by By Iliyana Nedkova If you took part in the Edinburgh Marathon during the weekend of 27-29 May 2022, you were part of the biggest mass participation sports event in Scottish history! If you took part in the Thistles & Sunflowers marathon of films and music, dance and drama, poetry and pipes at the … Continued

Blog – ‘Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick’ by Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover

The Book Launch… On Saturday 30 April 2022, Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick (Melin-Schoonover, Routledge, 2021) was, at long last, able to be officially launched in Edinburgh during Pomegranates, a two-day event co-sponsored by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh which celebrated dance from around the … Continued