Tell us about your band, Wayward Jane, and your plans for 2017? We started up a few years ago after all meeting through the Edinburgh trad music scene. Dan and Sam already had an Americana-influenced band going, various people left or moved away and Rachel, Michael and Becka stepped in. The music we make is … Continued
The Adam Sutherland School of Fiddle returns to Sloans in Glasgow city centre on April 22nd and 23rd 2017. Join Adam for a weekend school that emphasises creativity, tune writing, technique and fun! Adam has years of experience working with fiddlers of all ages and ability. This course is suitable for intermediate and advanced fiddle players. All tunes … Continued
Please note that the Elphinstone Institute Open Day, due to take place on April 19, and referred to in the TMF and SSF newsletters has been cancelled.
Children’s picture book author and storyteller Maria Cairney has released a new book, The Marveloso Minibeast Maloo. Maria firmly believes in the power of rhyming text to support early reading development.Maria hopes to be able to share the first of a series of these highly interactive sessions that aim to leave you feeling fuzzily warm, hopelessly … Continued
Tell us about your show, 3Troubadours: Mobile Dreams. Mobile Dreams is a poetic, funny and warm storytelling performance about the everlasting human search for connection, truth, freedom and beauty. In a stream of English spiced by their own native tongues (Norwegian, Finnish and Dutch) the performers behind Mobile Dreams tell a string of tales both … Continued
Rebuilding the relation between humans and the natural world. Trees for Life’s Rewilding the Highlands Project will involve the planting of 200,000 trees in a bid to restore the Caledonian Forest. With community engagement at its heart, the project also aims to create native woodland links between ancient Caledonian Forest fragments in the Highlands through engaging and involving … Continued
Tell us about your Jamaica Sings collaboration and plans for 2017 My latest collaboration has been with Robert Burns… or at least his songs! It was an idea between myself and Scottish producer Kieran C Murray, and we decided to work with a host of Jamaican musicians and artistes, including Ken Boothe, Cherine Anderson, Roots Underground, Berri and Nickeishia … Continued
What does Event Horizon have planned for 2017? Our main focus this year certainly is our album launch, which will be announced soon! Parallel to that we focus on adding to the live production, as we are planning on involving world leading dancers from various genres for future live performances. We also plan on choreographing … Continued
Ahead of Salmon Fairytale at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the 29th of April, Georgiana Keable, one of the performers, gives us some background on the show and their influences. Tell us about your show, Salmon Fairytale. Salmon Fairytale is about wonder and madness; we combine joik (traditional song), philosophy and stories from Sami and North-American … Continued
Tell us about your collaboration, Redwood Mountain, and your plans for 2017? Redwood Mountain came together by accident really. A friend of mine sent me an old book called The Book of American Folk Songs by Alan Lomax. He’d been telling me about this book for years. Shortly after gifting me a first edition copy, … Continued
TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland, SCIO SC043009) is a co-operative network which champions our shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and indigenous languages. Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness of Scotland’s places: our intangible cultural heritage. Registered office at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR.
