New Rhythms For Glasgow (NRFG) is a community project and charity working to deliver participatory arts and music activities within communities alongside local organisations across Glasgow.

The organisation have just started their brand new project of multi-arts workshops as a ‘Way into [...]

Lamp House Music have just announced their new music classes for children beginning this May 2013, ‘ReMake Music’.

The organisation have two classes available in the ReMake Music programme, one for Pre-School (ages 2—5 years) and one for Primary (ages 5—12 years). [...]

Each week the Youth Music Forum Scotland brings you news, opportunities and events from all over the country. The last week or so has seen great opportunities in summer school announcements, new talent seeking youth programmes and the chance to join orchestras and carnival bands. This week also saw the announcement of our first ever [...]

Join us for the first in a series of monthly live streamed broadcasts, led by Youth Music Forum Scotland using Google+, exploring current topics in youth music from all across the country.

This first broadcast will feature guest Tam Baillie,

Huntly Summer School have just released application forms for their wide range of tuition available in their 2013 programme of workshops.

The organisation have expanded to 9 tutors for 2013, offering the same classes in violin, harp, whistle and chanter. The Huntly Summer School [...]

Transitions 20/40 is a new programme designed to find and help to develop performing arts talents from key postcode areas in Scotland.

The Transitions scheme was designed to meet government policy for higher education, working to engage the broadest range of students to creative [...]

This week on the Youth Music Forum Scotland saw opportunities for young musicians to get involved in new bands and workshops from Edinburgh Festival Carnival and Tinderbox Project, an innovative new crowdfunding project from Aberdeen Youth Choir and more. Read on for full highlights from the forum…

The Edinburgh Festival Carnival
The Edinburgh [...]

Join the Carnival… And make some music!

The Edinburgh Festival Carnival is launching its own band to play a mix of sounds inspired by samba, soca, calypso, steel pan, taking influences from the world of New Orleans Mardi Gras through to Rio Carnival and [...]

Join the Tinderbox Orchestra for their open workshop on Sunday 19 May 2013, running between 10.30am – 5pm.

The event welcomes all instruments and young musicians aged between 13 – 25 and will be followed up with a showcase performance taking place at 5pm.

The day of music will feature live orchestral improvisation with

The Aberdeen Youth Choir (AYC) was started in October 2009 to meet the demand for specialist music tuition within the regeneration areas of Aberdeen. Now nearly four years on, the group has played and performed with world renowned musicians and still has young [...]

The Aberdeen Youth Choir began in October 2009 and provides free specialist group singing tuition for children in the regeneration areas of Aberdeen. Since its creation, the choir has made a significant impact on the local community, with several alumni receiving full scholarships for competitive national musical theatre groups. The choir has also [...]

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As you may already know, Aberdeen Youth Choir is now running both in Torry and Northfield. Fundraising has proven to be more difficult over the past year or so, to the point that we aren't sure if the choir will be able to keep going next year. But we won't give up [...]

Every week, the Youth Music Forum Scotland brings you events, opportunities and news from all across the country. This week saw a number of summer courses being announced, free places for the Everyone Deserves Music symposium, opportunities for music groups and much more.

Ceòl Mòr Summer Course
As part of the Aberdeen International Youth [...]

As part of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Ceòl Mòr is offering summer courses in youth music tuition and collaboration.

Ceòl Mòr exists for young musicians aged between 16-25 to learn and develop a performance practice of the new genre-crossing music currently [...]

Charlie McKerron Music week in association with the Insider Music festival.

In an unusual collaboration of education and entertainment, Scots fiddle supremo Charlie McKerronhas teamed up with the organisers of the Insider festival to put together what may be the finest music school of [...]

ElJam are offering free places at the upcoming ‘Everyone Deserves Music‘ Symposium at The Sage, Gateshead. The symposium offers the opportunity for participants to -

Talk, listen, share ideas, share resources, and hear from leading experts in the field including [...]

Each week the youth music forum brings you news, events and opportunities from all over Scotland. This week saw opportunities to join a new open music group in Aberdeen exploring creativity, the chance to attend innovative training workshop sessions thanks to Edinburgh Youth Music Forum and ElJam and much more.

Opportunity for Aberdeenshire Community [...]

Funding for the purchase of Musical Instruments

The Scottish Government has allocated £1M for schools to purchase musical instruments. Each Scottish Authority has been invited to bid for a share. Richard Paton, Head of Instrumental Music Service at Aberdeenshire Council, is dealing with this [...]

Opportunity for Community Music Groups

Funding for the purchase of Musical Instruments

The Scottish Government has allocated £1M for schools to purchase musical instruments. Each Scottish Authority has been invited to bid for a share. I am dealing with this matter on behalf of Aberdeenshire Council. Community groups can be included in the Council’s bid.

Community groups included [...]

Newly formed contemporary music group based in Aberdeen, SoundLab invite you to join them for their new workshops exploring musical creativity. SoundLab is an open group for musicians to get together regularly to rehearse and perform existing new music, newly commissioned works and [...]

Following a highly successful, introductory InterPlay session offered by Edinburgh Youth Music Forum in March, ELjam is offering to fund a limited number of places at two subsequent InterPlay events scheduled for August. Both will take place in Edinburgh and [...]

Each week the Youth Music Forum Scotland brings you youth music news, opportunities and events from all across Scotland. Here are the highlights from this week’s forum activity…

BBC Performing Arts Fund – Music Fellowships
Announced The BBC Performing Arts Fund has just announced the successful individuals who have been selected to work with [...]