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Our friends at the Traditional Music Forum work hard in supporting, promoting and representing the traditional Scottish music scene all year round. The organisation puts out a regular stream of useful information, runs events and provides support for those involved in traditional music and culture in Scotland, you can find out more and become a…(Read More)

Glasgow’s International Piping Festival, Piping Live! once again returns for a week long celebration of all things piping, taking place in venues and spaces across the city between 10—16 August 2015. The week long festival will encompass over 200 different events, including the World Pipe Band Championships 2015 in Glasgow Green, the anticipated…(Read More)

The annual celebration of the incredible young talent in traditional music all across Scotland is once again returning for another year of BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award. The foremost award for young musicians playing traditional music in Scotland has seen many of it’s previous winners go on to…(Read More)

TradTV is a new venture in bringing traditional Scottish, Gaelic and Celtic arts together in one place, responsive to the communities and audiences involved in the proliferation of these cultures. The newly launched web TV channel works to bring you a choice selection of traditional Scottish, Gaelic and Celtic culture including some of the best…(Read More)

In celebration of Scotland’s Traditional Arts, Music and Culture and to mark the country’s Beltane and Mayday festivals, the acclaimed annual TradFest showcase has once again returned to Edinburgh for 2015. As summer is ushered in, so too is the colourful array of folk acts, events and cultural displays across the capital, with…(Read More)