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A weekly two minute catch-up for members from the
TMF Director's desk
These are some of the things that have caught my attention this week.
Good to hear Drake Music Scotland featured on Good Morning Scotland last weekend. The piece is available as a podcast.
Last Sunday also saw an article in The National from Donald Shaw, Celtic Connections Creative Producer. I particularly liked his musing on the (never-ending) quest for the perfect gig.
Sad to read about The Wrigley Sisters' closing down sale, after their once thriving venue in Kirkwall, The Reel, was forced to close in the face of some intransigence from Orkney Islands Council.
St Andrews Folk Club was a legendary gig back in the 60s and 70s. Andy Watson, who recorded many of the acts appearing there, is gradually making his recordings available on YouTube. Vintage Archie Fisher, Hamish Imlach, Iain Mackintosh, and Alex Campbell up already with more to come.
There's been a lot of excitement around the announcement of the Covid vaccine, with a return to proper live gigs very much on people's minds. But how eager will people be to come out to hear live music? Creative Scotland commissioned the Audience Agency to produce a report on audience intentions once venues open up again. Around half of the people surveyed said that they would attend the same amount in future, and about a quarter 'not sure'.
A couple of years ago we did some work with the folks behind the Whereverly app, which allows you to access music and stories from particular places on your phone as you follow a particular route in Scotland. We helped out with the first one, the A9, and since then they've gone on to cover the North Coast 500 and Stirling, with a West Coast one imminent.
The Cross Party Group on Culture met this week with a hustings on the parties' intentions for culture in the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections. There was a surprising degree of unanimity (although the Greens and the Lib Dems didn't turn up). The Culture Counts election asks are worth a look.
The latest inductees to the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame was announced this week. It's a great list as ever, but I was particularly pleased to see Norman Kennedy in there. Norman has lived in the US for over 50 years and in 2003 was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts there. Great to see that he's got some recognition in his ain country. BBC Alba is broadcasting a special programme tonight (Friday 11), to complement its coverage of the Trad Awards, with both programmes available on the iPlayer.
There will be a touch of melancholy about watching that, with the live event a huge miss. This week's earworm - a masterpiece of melancholy
RIP the last of the Scotland the What! trio, Buff Hardie. One of his great characters was Cooncillor Swick, here carrying out his duties as a magistrate (57 seconds in).
All the best
DF
David Francis is Director of the Traditional Music Forum
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A weekly two minute catch-up for members from the
TMF Director's desk
These are some of the things that have caught my attention this week.
Good to hear Drake Music Scotland featured on Good Morning Scotland last weekend. The piece is available as a podcast.
Last Sunday also saw an article in The National from Donald Shaw, Celtic Connections Creative Producer. I particularly liked his musing on the (never-ending) quest for the perfect gig.
Sad to read about The Wrigley Sisters' closing down sale, after their once thriving venue in Kirkwall, The Reel, was forced to close in the face of some intransigence from Orkney Islands Council.
St Andrews Folk Club was a legendary gig back in the 60s and 70s. Andy Watson, who recorded many of the acts appearing there, is gradually making his recordings available on YouTube. Vintage Archie Fisher, Hamish Imlach, Iain Mackintosh, and Alex Campbell up already with more to come.
There's been a lot of excitement around the announcement of the Covid vaccine, with a return to proper live gigs very much on people's minds. But how eager will people be to come out to hear live music? Creative Scotland commissioned the Audience Agency to produce a report on audience intentions once venues open up again. Around half of the people surveyed said that they would attend the same amount in future, and about a quarter 'not sure'.
A couple of years ago we did some work with the folks behind the Whereverly app, which allows you to access music and stories from particular places on your phone as you follow a particular route in Scotland. We helped out with the first one, the A9, and since then they've gone on to cover the North Coast 500 and Stirling, with a West Coast one imminent.
The Cross Party Group on Culture met this week with a hustings on the parties' intentions for culture in the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections. There was a surprising degree of unanimity (although the Greens and the Lib Dems didn't turn up). The Culture Counts election asks are worth a look.
The latest inductees to the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame was announced this week. It's a great list as ever, but I was particularly pleased to see Norman Kennedy in there. Norman has lived in the US for over 50 years and in 2003 was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts there. Great to see that he's got some recognition in his ain country. BBC Alba is broadcasting a special programme tonight (Friday 11), to complement its coverage of the Trad Awards, with both programmes available on the iPlayer.
There will be a touch of melancholy about watching that, with the live event a huge miss. This week's earworm - a masterpiece of melancholy
RIP the last of the Scotland the What! trio, Buff Hardie. One of his great characters was Cooncillor Swick, here carrying out his duties as a magistrate (57 seconds in).
All the best
DF
David Francis is Director of the Traditional Music Forum
Copyright © 2020 Traditional Music Forum, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email as a member of Traditional Music Forum
Our mailing address is:
Traditional Music Forum
c/o Scottish Storytelling Centre
43-45 High St
Edinburgh, Scotland EHI15 2AU
United Kingdom