Bid to name the new plinth tune!

BIDDING from 1am on SUNDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER until 1am on SUNDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER
Make your bid below!

• This tune, newly commissioned from Sarah Northcott, was played from the Trafalgar Square plinth, by SMG‘s development worker Ros Gasson.

• An online aucton to name the tune will run for a week, from 1am on Sunday 13th September.

• The money bid by the winner will go to a charity of their choice.

Hear the tune: The Jig Formerly Known as Plinth

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Ros Gasson, the Scots Music Group’s Development Worker, played her fiddle for an hour on the ‘One and Other’ plinthbetween midnight on Saturday 12th September and 1am on Sunday 13th. ‘One & Other’ is a live artwork by sculptor Antony Gormley. 2,400 participants representing every region of the UK each spend an hour on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square. The project will run for 100 days and nights.

‘One and Other’ are filming everyone who is on the plinth – their recordings are streamed live on their website, 24 hours a day.

Along with sharing some traditional music, Ros was raising money for charity, as part of her hour on the plinth. Would you like to be a part of this huge arts project, and help raise funds for a good cause? We have commissioned Sarah Northcott, one of the Scots Music Group’s longstanding tutors, to write a new tune for the plinth. Ros played the new tune from the plinth top. We launched an online auction for the right to name the tune, as Ros left the plinth. The auction will run for one week, closing at 1am on Sunday 20th September. The winner will be able to name the tune in any way they wish. It could be a great opportunity for someone to mark a significant event, or to create a unique gift for someone by naming the tune after them.

Ros is inviting you to pledge your donation to a charity of your choice. The person pledging the largest donation will have the right to name the tune. The written music for the tune, along with its name, will be published on the SMG website after the auction, and the person making the winning bid will receive a recorded copy of the tune. The Scots Music Group will also include the tune in the publication of their next tune book.

To make a pledge
All you need to do is to register and log into this website, and write your pledge in the bids box at the bottom of this page. Tell us which charity you would like your donation to go to, and how much you’d like to donate. To have a chance of winning, your donation will need to be bigger than the previous entry.

When registering with/logging into the website, please ensure you include a phone number where you can be contacted on Monday 21st September If you have registered with our website previously, you can check and edit your contact details by logging in then clicking on the ‘my details’ link.

Terms and conditions:

• Pledges will be accepted from 1am on Sunday 13th September up until 1am on Sunday 20th September.

• When you post your comment on the site, your name will automatically be displayed.

• The successful participant will be notified by phone on Monday 21st September.

• If for any reason the organisers cannot contact the winner by phone on Monday 21st September, the person who has pledged the next highest bid will be considered the winner.

• The pledged amount will be payable to the Scots Music Group, who will then pass the donation on to the designated charity.

• If the suggested tune name is deemed to be offensive in any way, the next highest bidder at the closing date will be considered the winner.

You can watch the recording of Ros on the plinth, leave messages, and mark your favourite moments here

 

Bids so far: (latest bid at top)