ENTRIES are now open for the prestigious BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year award.
The event has been running since 2001.
Last year’s winner from the six finalists was fiddle player Benedict Morris, from Glasgow.
The winner will be given a recording session with BBC Scotland and a one-year membership of the Musicians Union.
And all finalists get a one-year membership to the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland (TMSA) plus the opportunity to take part in the TMSA’s annual Young Trad Tour.
The final BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2020, which is organised with Hands Up for Trad, will be held on Sunday 2 February 2020 in City Halls, Glasgow as part of the Celtic Connections festival, and will be broadcast live on the station.
Gareth Hydes, Commissioning Editor – Radio, Music and Events, BBC Scotland, said: "Each year the competition attracts outstanding young talent.
"We’re looking forward to hearing from brilliant young musicians who want to compete for the 2020 title."
www.bbc.co.uk
THE CULTURAL organisation Deveron Projects, based in Aberdeenshire, has secured support from the Scottish Land Trust to purchase an empty shop unit in the heart of Huntly to create a space for community use.
Deveron Projects aim to "create a community focus that will bring people back into the heart of the Huntly and help build a sustainable future for the town centre."
Claudia Zeiske, director of the cultural body, said: "We are absolutely delighted to receive money from the Scottish Land Trust.
"It will offer a transformational opportunity for Huntly and its town centre hosting for a wide range of events and community activities such as cooking and baking, café, workshop spaces, and the Town is Garden initiative.
"It will also house artists and other creatives who come to live and work in Huntly”.
Roseanna Cunningham, cabinet secretary for Land Reform said of the set of SLF grants of which Huntly was part, said: "This substantial set of Scottish Land Fund grants will enable diverse projects across the country to buy up key assets for the benefit of local people and put the ownership and responsibility of key services and facilities right at the heart of the community.
"Behind each one lies a story, as well as a great deal of hard work and commitment from local residents to unlock the opportunity that this funding brings. I congratulate each of the successful applicants and wish them good luck on the next chapter of their journey.”
www.deveron-projects.com
THE Physicians Gallery, part of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, has opened its new exhibition, Moonstruck, about the history of mental health from the perspective of patients and doctors.
The exhibition explores 500 years of what was once called ‘lunacy’, a term derived from the lunar cycle, a reference to the fact that the cycle of the moon was once considered to affect mental health, and from where the exhibition takes its name.
The oldest item on display is a book on witchcraft dating from the 16th century, and visitors will be able to see a straitjacket.
Daisy Cunynghame, curator of the Moonstruck exhibition, said: “Mental health is a challenging subject to discuss.
"We made sure when developing this exhibition that we consulted with those with lived experiences, practitioners and mental health charities to ensure that different viewpoints were represented. Alongside some of the more famous names, such as Sigmund Freud, we’ve included artwork and letters from asylum patients to uncover the patient’s voice. A major aim of this exhibition is to challenge stigma around mental health and give it a human face."
Patient art is displayed alongside historic artefact including original illustrations of patients at London’s infamous Bethlem Hospital (known in popular culture as “Bedlam”), which are on display to the public for the first time.
www.rcpe.ac.uk
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