Hands up for Trad

HANDS UP FOR TRAD had been created in 2002 and is out there to boost the profile and visibility of Scottish conventional Music through Information, knowledge and Advocacy. We might be absolutely nothing without our supporters and you will view all of them here. Hands Up for Trad’s major aim should advertise quality and help developing skill within Scottish old-fashioned music through our five crucial tasks:

The Scots Trad Music Awards is a yearly event that takes destination every December. Held at various venues around the country, the goal of these prizes would be to highlight Scotland’s wonderful conventional songs in most its types also to develop a higher profile chance that will deliver the songs and music business in to the spotlight of news & community interest. You can find 18 honors provided being voted because of the public. Annually we've roughly 100, 000 votes. The big event has been televised for the past several years on BBC Alba.

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The BBC broadcast Scotland Young Trad Musician of the season offers 12 younger (16-25) musicians a distinctive, visible chance to start their particular professional professions. All of the youthful performers take advantage of a rigorous domestic week-end in which they attend some workshops, offering these with a toolkit that'll give them using the skills essential to go after a profession in old-fashioned songs. The winner for the BBC broadcast Scotland teenage Traditional Musician 2012 is going to be granted a recording session with BBC Scotland, performance on Scots Trad Music Awards, one year’s account of Musicians Union, and all sorts of finalists have one year’s account of typical Music and Song Association together with the possibility to indulge in the TMSA’s annual Young Trad Tour.

The last of BBC Radio Scotland Young typical Musician Award takes place in Glasgow’s Celtic Connections event.

SCOTLAND SINGS
Scotland Sings exists to encourage mass participation in singing activities across Scotland. Established in October 2012 before St Andrew’s Day festivities, Hands Up for Trad is matching some performing activities from Shetland to Stranraer as an element of Scotland’s Winter Festivals programme.

In 2013, additional singing occasions tend to be planned throughout the year, plus specialised Choir Leader training possibilities.

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Distil provides a number of domestic programs and activities for professional traditional performers ahead along with musicians and artists who've proven track documents during the highest expert amount, from other musical styles (e.g. traditional, jazz, world music etc). Each advantages of useful sessions, composition and improvisation options, resulting in having their work taped and showcased.

Distil is divided in to two parts – domestic week-end and a brand new songs display. The residential provides an opportunity to 8 performers to go to a week-end in New Lanark Mill Hotel and work with 3 professional artists from various genres – improver, composer and standard songs from another culture. We constantly allow it to be understood that there are no differences when considering workshop frontrunner and participant and everybody is attending Distil to understand from a single another.

The Distil display takes place in Stirling Tolbooth and gives the chance to Distil members to write songs for Mr McFall’s Chamber – an Edinburgh sequence quartet. Currently we commissioned over 60 brand-new bits of music!

Tinto summertime Schools are a hugely preferred domestic few days of standard music for young people (12-18) where to 50 participants spend week at Wiston Lodge, occur rural Southern Lanarkshire. Tinto summertime School provides young people of most abilities, the opportunity to submerge by themselves in Scotland’s rich traditional songs culture. Individuals can find out fiddle, flute, electric guitar, bagpipes, piano, tune, accordion, harp an such like from some of the business’s leading performers and carry on to make enduring friendships which are underpinned by a shared curiosity about conventional music. The few days stops with a public show which will be held at nearby Coulter Village Hall, in which the young people can showcase their achievements. Recent Tutors at Tinto Summer School have included: Charlie McKerron: Fiddle, Shona Mooney: Fiddle, Adam Sutherland: Fiddle Karine Polwart: Song, Patsy Reid: Fiddle etc.

In 2012 we got funding from innovative Scotland’s Youth musical Initiative to grow Tinto to two residential weeks (in July) and a senior week-end in August.