BBC Radio Scotland award finalists hit the road http://www.creativescotland.com/news/bbc-radio-scotland-award-finalists-hit-the-road-11102011

Creative Scotland announces that the cream of Scotland’s young traditional musical talent is touring the country in the next few weeks. Coming together as the TMSA Young Trad Tour 2011, the group consists of the six finalists of this year’s BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award, together with the winner of the 2010 Award.

www.nextbritthing.com

NBT is a national music competition for all 11-19 year olds in UK running between September 2011 and March 2012.
Young people are invited to upload their audio or video performances to the Next BRIT thing website. The tracks with the most votes will go to an industry panel who will invite the best to perform live at 6 regional finals, one of which will be held in Edinbrugh. A panel of artists and industry experts will choose the best to perform at the national live final in March.

The competition is now open and proving popular, with over 200 performances uploaded in the first 48 hours

Any style of music can be entered, including cover versions. Entries can be submitted by individuals, groups, orchestras etc
There are two performance categories ‘general’ and ‘classical’. There is a separate song writing/composition category supported by PRS for Music.

Next BRIT thing is supported by Department for Education and Department for Culture Media and Sport. It is managed by the BPI and delivered by a partnership including Radiowaves.  NBT has the support of government ministers, regional assemblies and MPs. It has a media partnership with Metro and Global Radio as well as endorsement from many music and education organisations

A local school choir had the night of their young lives performing before a very appreciative audience in Kilmarnock’s Palace theatre last week – made even more thrilling by sharing the stage with BRIT award-winning boyband Blake. The 37 Kilmarnock Academy singers sang backing in pop-classical favourites Nessun Dorma, Hallelujah, Jerusalem and I Vow To Thee My Country, performed by Blake, who have sold over half a million albums.

http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/corpres/news/showNews.asp?p=5824

Students who are competing to win a contract to build a new music festival’s main stage are discovering how physics works in the real world.

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6114490

Over the space of three days, participants aged 13-18 will be able to work with professional composers and musicians to create their own, original pieces of music which will be recorded and performed as part of Red Note’s Noisy Night on Saturday 22 October. Students will be able to use their completed pieces as submissions for their Highers coursework.

Venue: Woodend Barn, Banchory
Cost: £10

Contact judith.robinson@soundandmusic.org for more details and bookings
This opportunity is available in: Aberdeenshire
For further information, please contact judith.robinson@soundandmusic.org (Judith Robinson), or visithttp://sound-scotland.co.uk.

It’s a year since the inaugural Highland Music Day and this year’s event on Thursday 6 October will see 570 young people from all over Highland arrive in Inverness to participate in a day of workshops and group playing for musicians of all levels of ability who attend Highland primary or secondary schools.
Seven different venues throughout the city will be used to host activities for young musicians of strings, brass, woodwind, bagpipes and pipe band drumming, traditional music and percussion.

http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2011/October/2011-10-03-04.htm