Making Music - Scotland

24/08/2026

Here's a cure for a Monday morning! 👇

19/08/2026

This 2026/27 season will mark special anniversaries for many of our members. This concert on Saturday celebrates TMSA Scotland's 60th and features an excellent line up of trad music stars, including Aly Bain. Do you have a big anniversary this year? Let us know how you're celebrating and invite us all to the party!

🎻✨ THIS SATURDAY! ✨🎻

The wait is almost over! Just 5 DAYS TO GO until the spectacular TMSA Patrons Concert at Perth Concert Hall! 🎟️

Join us as we celebrate 60 incredible years of the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland with a star-studded evening of music, song, and entertainment — featuring the wonderful Barbara Dickson alongside Aly Bain, Finn MacPherson, Alastair Hardie, Sheena Wellington, Margaret Bennett, and many more fantastic singers and entertainers! 🌟🎶

📍 Perth Concert Hall
📅 Saturday 22nd August 2026
⏰ 7:30pm
💰 £30 / £27 (family discount, and TMSA member discounts available)

🎟️ Have you got your tickets yet? Don’t miss this very special TMSA60 celebration!

👉 Book your tickets: https://bit.ly/4nGS71Z

19/08/2026

Funding for traditional music 👇

📣 Are you an individual or organisation working in a traditional artform like traditional craft, dance, music or storytelling?

The Traditional Arts and Culture Fund gives small grants of up to £1,200 to support you to create, perform, tour and showcase work, as well as develop skills and learning opportunities.

It's supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and delivered by TRACS - Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland, the national network for traditional arts in Scotland.

Next deadline 1 September - learn more about the fund and apply via the link in the comments ⬇️

12/08/2026

Are your group performing in Edinburgh in August? There is so much going on and we can't share everyone's ads, but leave us a note in the comments to tell us what you're up to, where and when! Links welcome

Bathgate Youth Band @ Waverley Mall MMD18

31/07/2026

Glasgow... we're not done yet. 🎺🔥

After an incredible weekend, we're back out on the streets with three days of brass, dancing and organised chaos.

📍 Friday 31 July
• Kelvingrove Park (Commonwealth Games Fan Zone) – 5:00pm & 6:30pm

📍 Saturday 1 August
• Govanhill International Festival & Carnival Parade (Queens Park → Govanhill Park) – 1:00pm
• Kelvingrove Park – 4:30pm & 5:30pm

📍 Sunday 2 August
• Surge Festival, Merchant City – 2:15pm & 4:15pm

If you hear a wall of brass coming your way... come and join us. Bring your dancing shoes. 💃🕺

📸 Huge thanks to Kiran Visually Speaking for these amazing pictures!

17/07/2026

We are very proud of our Scottish promoter members, who host chamber music events all over the country and bring classical music into the heart of smaller, rural and island communities. 21 of our members have received funds from Chamber Music Scotland to support their work and we are looking forward to another rich programme of concerts from them across 26/27. Congratulations!

16/07/2026

Variations String Quartet Challenge; for amateur players between 18 - 40 years of age based in Scotland.

Variations Scotland - who have been running the Variations- Ullapool Summer School chamber music course with the Edinburgh Quartet each July over the past 20 years - have launched this Challenge to motivate more younger amateur string players to come together and play on a regular basis. The Challenge is not open to professional musicians or music conservatory students – it is for amateurs.

Groups are invited to submit recordings (made on a smartphone) of two pieces: any movement of a Haydn string quartet and any other contrasting movement from a quartet from the romantic era or later. The four finalists will play a quartet of their own choice at a public concert in Perth on 27th February 2027. The winners will be awarded a place at Variations 2027, with all tuition and accommodation costs covered, and runners up will be offered free one day workshops with the Edinburgh Quartet.

Deadline for entries: 31 December 2026

Full details here: https://www.variationsscotland.co.uk/variations-scotland-string-quartet-challenge-2026-27/

14/07/2026

Ca****la Slavonica are part of our Adopt a Music Creator programme this year, and are looking for a creative individual to create a new work for the choir to perform as part of their 26/27 Season. Applications close on 31 July. Please share!

⚠️Ca****la Slavonica Call for Music Creators

Thanks to support from Making Music UK , we are looking to adopt a creative individual to create a new work for the choir to perform as part of our 26/27 Season.

❓How to apply

To apply please submit the following to Ca****[email protected] by the 31 July:

I) Two examples of your work, preferably including works for voice, but ultimately we want to know you.

2) A description of why you would like to write for the choir, this could include describing ideas for a piece, or what you'd like to learn from working with the choir, or anything you feel makes this opportunity right for you

3) Contact details, we want to be able to inform you of the decision!

If you need to submit items in an alternative format, to make the process more accessible, please get in touch so we can accommodate you.

❓More Information

I) We appreciate Central and Eastern European can be a contentious term, but for the purposes of this call if you are from (or have a family link to) the following countries:

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

2) You must be based in the United Kingdom and not in full time education

3) This is an opportunity for emerging music creators, so ideally we are looking for someone who is in the first seven years of working as a music creator.

🎵Adopt a Music Creator is run by Making Music and funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust

25/06/2026

If you're planning a big project, have you thought of crowdfunding? Creative Scotland are currently providing match funding for artists and organisations raising funds through Crowdfunder, matching up to £10,000 per project; £1 for every £1 raised, up to 50% of your crowdfunding target, up to £10k. Projects supported through Crowdmatch include a wide range of creative activity including albums, performances, festivals and community workshops, including our member The GSA Choir - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/gsa-choir-commission

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/funds/creative-scotland-crowdmatch

Crowdfunder and Creative Scotland have teamed up to offer £150,000 in match funding, supporting artists and creatives across Scotland to access the financial support they need to deliver work that enhances creative and cultural life of the nation.

22/06/2026

What a beautiful evening we had at The Helix by The Kelpies yesterday, celebrating Make Music Day UK with the Big Summer Wind Orchestra & Choir Thank you to all the players and singers who came together for the first time EVER to play such a broad range of songs, conducted by the mighty That British Conductor Guy, Callum Rooke. A big thanks to Falkirk Council and Falkirk Libraries for a great weekend of music across the town. See you all next year? Tag your group in the comments if you were there!