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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.
A Guid New Year, folks. I'm still technically on a break (until Monday) but didn't want to wait another week before getting going with the weekly bulletins. Let's get the Covid and Brexit-related stuff out of the way first...
Creative Scotland has reopened the hardship fund for freelancers. It's unclear at the moment whether there will be further funding for the creative and cultural sector in the light of continuing lockdowns and restrictions, but if things continue this way we will be lobbying for that.
Touring in Europe seems a long way off at the moment, but when it does get going again (and if it is viable) it will be in a very different administrative context. The Musicians Union has produced this very handy flowchart outlining the processes musicians will need to go through.
Speaking of European connections, the Courier ran a piece recently speculating on whether Adolf Hitler personally expedited the delivery to Jimmy Shand of the prototype of what became the Shand Merino accordion. Shand and the owner of the music shop where he worked had been collaborating with the Hohner factory in Germany on the instrument. Whatever the truth of the matter, the article is a very good potted biography of the great man (Jimmy that is!)
For a few years now, the TMF has been part of the cultural network of SENScot (Social Enterprise Network Scotland). Many of the organisations which are members of the Forum are de facto social enterprises. Although there is no formal register of social enterprises, you can be recognised as one, giving access to a number of benefits, including different funding streams, and legal and business advice. More information from Social Enterprise Scotland. If you qualify through your constitution or business and social purposes, you can join and get a certified social enterprise member badge to use in your electronic and printed materials.
Codigo is a new website, musician and artist-friendly, that helps people to learn tech skills, particularly writing code and building a website. Codigo wants to support people in the arts sector and is offering courses to TMF members at a 50% discount. To sign up, click the option to buy the courses on this page and then use the discount code tracs50 which will get you all four of the courses (30 hours of learning) for £40. There are 20 discounts in total and they are valid until the 8th of February. They tell us that by the end of this month they should also have a course on building a site on Wordpress for people who want a site but are unsure about learning code. Further information, queries by emailing here.
The World's Room, the monthly traditional singing club which the TMF has been running, has been dark this past while (the last night was just before the shutdown last March). However, we are co-hosting a virtual Burns Night with the Howth Singing Circle in Dublin and Edinburgh Folk Club on 23 January. This is a very popular annual event for the Howth folk and it is a pleasure to be included in their plans this year. Appearing from the Scottish side will be Paul Anderson, Mairi Campbell, Shona Donaldson, Morag Dunbar, Scott Gardiner, Gilly Hewitt, Jimmy Hutchison, Alan Prior, Carole Prior, and Gary West. The jingbang hosted by Francy Devine and myself. Details of how to join will be appearing on the World's Room Facebook page shortly.
And on the subject of traditional singers, Margaret Bennett's interview with Norman Kennedy on this week's Travelling Folk was a real treat. Starts at 1:18:18.
Delighted to see New Year honours for two master box players, John Kirkpatrick and Fergie Macdonald. Great to see their work being recognised.
There were a number of significant losses to our community over the seasonal break. Sad to see the passing of P/M Iain Morrison, Coda Music's Dougie Anderson, Tom Laurie, the man behind St Andrew's in the Square and so much more, folklorist Peter Cooke, who did so much to record Shetland fiddling, pipe-maker and India Alba founder, Nigel Richard, and bluegrass legend, Tony Rice. This week we also lost Jim Haynes, founder of the Traverse Theatre at a time when the folk revival and the counter-culture were very much interwoven. And Gerry Marsden, the populariser of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' which could now be arguably classifed as a folk song! RIP.
All the best
DF
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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.
A Guid New Year, folks. I'm still technically on a break (until Monday) but didn't want to wait another week before getting going with the weekly bulletins. Let's get the Covid and Brexit-related stuff out of the way first...
Creative Scotland has reopened the hardship fund for freelancers. It's unclear at the moment whether there will be further funding for the creative and cultural sector in the light of continuing lockdowns and restrictions, but if things continue this way we will be lobbying for that.
Touring in Europe seems a long way off at the moment, but when it does get going again (and if it is viable) it will be in a very different administrative context. The Musicians Union has produced this very handy flowchart outlining the processes musicians will need to go through.
Speaking of European connections, the Courier ran a piece recently speculating on whether Adolf Hitler personally expedited the delivery to Jimmy Shand of the prototype of what became the Shand Merino accordion. Shand and the owner of the music shop where he worked had been collaborating with the Hohner factory in Germany on the instrument. Whatever the truth of the matter, the article is a very good potted biography of the great man (Jimmy that is!)
For a few years now, the TMF has been part of the cultural network of SENScot (Social Enterprise Network Scotland). Many of the organisations which are members of the Forum are de facto social enterprises. Although there is no formal register of social enterprises, you can be recognised as one, giving access to a number of benefits, including different funding streams, and legal and business advice. More information from Social Enterprise Scotland. If you qualify through your constitution or business and social purposes, you can join and get a certified social enterprise member badge to use in your electronic and printed materials.
Codigo is a new website, musician and artist-friendly, that helps people to learn tech skills, particularly writing code and building a website. Codigo wants to support people in the arts sector and is offering courses to TMF members at a 50% discount. To sign up, click the option to buy the courses on this page and then use the discount code tracs50 which will get you all four of the courses (30 hours of learning) for £40. There are 20 discounts in total and they are valid until the 8th of February. They tell us that by the end of this month they should also have a course on building a site on Wordpress for people who want a site but are unsure about learning code. Further information, queries by emailing here.
The World's Room, the monthly traditional singing club which the TMF has been running, has been dark this past while (the last night was just before the shutdown last March). However, we are co-hosting a virtual Burns Night with the Howth Singing Circle in Dublin and Edinburgh Folk Club on 23 January. This is a very popular annual event for the Howth folk and it is a pleasure to be included in their plans this year. Appearing from the Scottish side will be Paul Anderson, Mairi Campbell, Shona Donaldson, Morag Dunbar, Scott Gardiner, Gilly Hewitt, Jimmy Hutchison, Alan Prior, Carole Prior, and Gary West. The jingbang hosted by Francy Devine and myself. Details of how to join will be appearing on the World's Room Facebook page shortly.
And on the subject of traditional singers, Margaret Bennett's interview with Norman Kennedy on this week's Travelling Folk was a real treat. Starts at 1:18:18.
Delighted to see New Year honours for two master box players, John Kirkpatrick and Fergie Macdonald. Great to see their work being recognised.
There were a number of significant losses to our community over the seasonal break. Sad to see the passing of P/M Iain Morrison, Coda Music's Dougie Anderson, Tom Laurie, the man behind St Andrew's in the Square and so much more, folklorist Peter Cooke, who did so much to record Shetland fiddling, pipe-maker and India Alba founder, Nigel Richard, and bluegrass legend, Tony Rice. This week we also lost Jim Haynes, founder of the Traverse Theatre at a time when the folk revival and the counter-culture were very much interwoven. And Gerry Marsden, the populariser of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' which could now be arguably classifed as a folk song! RIP.
All the best
DF
David Francis is Director of the Traditional Music Forum
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