Congratulations to Edinburgh Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra!
EMGO took part in the competiton at the Brittish BMG Federation Rally in Birmingham on Sunday 7th March, and were placed 2nd out of 8 orchestras taking part…well done!
Something to mull over
At a time when many councils are announcing major budget cuts for music tuition in schools, this article gives serious food for thought
Student concert 2010
We are looking for people to help out at our student concert on Friday 19th March
We’ll need help on the night on the door and the bar, and also help selling raffle tickets during the evening. We’ll also be looking for a few folk to help with setting up the hall before the doors open
If you’d like to lend a hand, please contact Ros in the office
Many thanks!
Inspire Project
We’re delighted to have been successful in obtaining funding for the Inspire Project, which follows on from a very well-received pilot project working with The Rock Trust, The Bethany Trust, Stepping Stones and the Stafford Centre. The latest announcement will allow us further to develop this programme, through which we aim to encourage participation and involvement for socially excluded participants, with traditional music and its wider community.
Many people reading this will be aware of our funding issues over the last couple of years, and it’s worth pointing out this is ringfenced project funding. The continuing success of our core activities and events still owes much to the fantastic ongoing support of our members, volunteers, tutors and staff. Without that, we wouldn’t be here!
SMG's 21st birthday
The Scots Music Group will be 21 years old in 2012! Do you have ideas about how we could celebrate? Click on the title of this news article, and add your suggestions at the bottom of the page
"All together Now" - SMG's new choir
We started ‘All Together Now’, our new community choir, in September 2009.
There are a few places left for the January term You can find out more, and enrol online here
Publicising the Scots Music Group
We’re currently gathering information on good places to publicise the organisation, to update our records. If you know of places in or around Edinburgh where we can put up posters and/or leave fliers, please give us details, with the name of the place, and the street address if possible.
We’ll also be contacting local radio stations in the New Year, to see if we can arrange to get some publicity. It would be useful to know if there’s anyone interested in being interviewed, to talk about SMG, should the opportunity arise! Please contact Ros if you’d be interested in helping with this!
SMG Tea Towels: The Slender Tree edition now available
The latest addition to our range of merchandise, a fairtrade cotton tea towel with The Slender Tree words and motif, was officially unfurled at the Diggers Session fundraising concert .
Priced at £4 for members and £5 for non-members, the tea cloots are now on sale via our web site shop and at SMG classes and events.
The song ‘The Slender Tree’ was written by Anne Renshaw, and the design is thanks to Sangstream member Helen Wyllie.
Funding News
Look here for updated news on our funding situation.
SMG musicians and dancers in BBC film
On Wednesday 7th October SMG musicians and dancers took part in filming for a BBC programme called ‘Democracy in Action’, which is a series of films made by the BBC for the citizenship curriculum, to help in the teaching of politics in schools. The programme will be broadcast early next year. The film crew were rather creatively using ceilidh dancers to demonstrate the Single Transferrable Vote system!