In the In-Tray: SOLAS 2014 Festival, 20-22 June 2014, Perth

We received leaflets about a forthcoming music festival:-

www.SolasFestival.co.uk

New Links for Trad Musicians

I've just been checking my Diigo account, and I see I've recently saved several links that our Scottish trad musicians might like:-

• The Archive Project: an Adventure in Traditional Scottish Music - blog about a project to get people using tunes in the School of Scottish Studies Archives:- "Welcome! This is a project from the Edinburgh Youth Gaitherin and School of Scottish Studies Archives (funded by Creative Scotland through the Youth Music Initiative) running for a year from June 2012 – June (or beyond!) 2013.  It aims to bring seven young people (aged 15-23) into the Archives and create innovative new traditional music as a result."
• Forthcoming Minstrelsy Concert at The Sage Gateshead -  promoted by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 23 June 8 pm.
• Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - has been studying the history of Scottish culture and archaeology for over 200 years!
• Ronnie Gibson explores the Atholl Collection of Scottish music at Perth's A K Bell Library - blogpost. 
• Archived article about James Scott Skinner, from the Box and Fiddle magazine archives. Scott Skinner was a fabulous Scottish fiddler who also published fiddle music.

Ronnie Gibson extols virtues of Atholl Collection at A K Bell Library

Read Ronnie's blogpost here.  The Atholl Collection is a superb resource, and Ronnie's post comes as a timely reminder of the historic Scottish music treasures that it contains.

Trad music job at Horsecross Arts, Perth

Interesting opening for someone here.  Please forward to any BA (Scottish Music) graduate looking for work!  

Talent hub co-ordinator


Horsecross Arts has been awarded Creative Scotland funding to establish a national talent hub for Scottish traditional and Gaelic music (instrumental and vocal). The hub will identify and develop creative skills and talents in fiddle, pipes, flute, percussion, brass, vocals, guitar/mandolin and piano/accordion.  Read more: ttp://www.horsecross.co.uk/about/job-vacancies/

(Thanks to Simon Thoumire for tweeting this.)