Drake Music Scotland

10/12/2025

Day Ten introduces new team members! 🤝 Every year, we train musicians to join our team of freelancers across Scotland. Someone who joined our team this year was Tilly. Previously, Tilly had been Centre Coordinator for our Digital Orchestra Edinburgh programme. We have more training of new musicians coming up in January.

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Figurenotes

Image Description: Artistic Director, Pete, is training new Associate Musician, Tilly, to use Figurenotes magnets as notation - differently coloured, circular magnets are stuck to a whiteboard in sequence. Tilly is playing chime bars and looking at Pete.

09/12/2025

For Day Nine, Digital Orchestra Central Associate Musician, Sorcha, who is blind, is helping another visually-impaired musician to play CMPSR by using tactile Lego as notation. Digital Orchesta Central rehearse at Kingspark each week. 🕹️

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Digit Music

Image Description: Sorcha is helping a visually-impaired young person play CMPSR, a joystick-style controller, using Lego as tactile notation.

08/12/2025

Day Eight takes us to Haddo House NTS in Aberdeenshire. Every year, the young people from the Aberdeenshire schools that take part in our All Join In programme put on a concert here. This young person was one of the highlights of this year's show, dancing and drumming centre stage and giving off amazing energy. Next year's concert at Haddo House is on Tuesday 12th May, so pop it in your diaries! 🪘⚡️

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Live Life Aberdeenshire

Photo Credit: Sandy Butler

Image Description: A young person stands in front of an audience playing a bodhran drum and dancing.

07/12/2025

Day Seven celebrates an exciting trip for Composers Chris Meek, Sarah Corr, and Milosz Czarniecki, who visited Reykjavik with Ben Lunn - Composer and Conductor to hear their new pieces performed as part of the Óperudagar festival in the Harpa Concert Hall. Here, Miłosz is working with conductor Stefan, as the Hljómeyki choir and Katie Buckley (Harp) work on his new piece.

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RCS Composition PRS Foundation Nordic Music Days

Image Description: A choir stands on steps in front of a geometric glass wall with two musicians standing talking in the foreground.

06/12/2025

Day Six takes us to Windsor Castle to meet the King! Back at the start of April, Head of Learning, Emma Lines, Associate Musician, Abi Sinar, and Musician, Rhona Smith, and her support, Sophie, were invited down to Windsor Castle to attend a reception to celebrate Community Music across the UK. It was a fantastic event hosted by Katie Derham and had wonderful performances including YolanDa Brown OBE! 👑🏰

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Image Description: Emma, Abi, Rhona and Sophie are posing together outside Windsor Castle.

05/12/2025

Day Five shows how Figurenotes makes composition a breeze. This year, our Associate Musician, Fiona, worked with pupils in Calaiswood School in Fife. Together they created a Seascape filled with compositions made using Figurenotes. Well done to all involved. What a beautiful tune. 🌊🏝️

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Video Description: Young people taking it in turns to play their compositions on the piano, while Associate Musician, Fiona, plays along in the background on keyboard.

04/12/2025

For Day Four, we have Associate Musician, Martin, and a young person from Bun Sgoil Achadh na Creige/Rockfield Primary School during one of our All Join In projects. All Join In projects are delivered in schools across the country throughout the year. 🏫🎶

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Image Description: Martin and a young person are both playing ukulele together in a classroom.

03/12/2025

Day Three is a chance for us to share this fantastic image from ‘Shrine’ by Sorcha Pringle at the CCA in Glasgow. This powerful audio-visual performance explored the dramatic impacts that humans have had on the environment - it was part of the fantastic Cryptic Nights. 🦎🔥

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Cryptic Glasgow PRS Foundation Creative Scotland

Photo Credit: Iona Rose

Image Description: There is a moody orange smokey background with a screen showing flames. In the foreground is Sorcha Pringle sitting at a desk with a laptop and other instruments. Audience are sitting around the room.

02/12/2025

Day Two of our Advent Calendar takes us to Aberdeenshire and our Digital Orchestra North East. 💻🎶

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Figurenotes ThumbJam

Image Description: Associate Musicians Abi and Ewan are working with the group at Digital Orchestra North East. Ewan is pointing at a Figurenotes Score while a young person is playing the iPad. Abi is doing the same with a different young person. In the background a young person in a wheelchair is playing a switch.

01/12/2025

Welcome to our Festive Fundraiser and Advent Calendar for 2025! 🎄 Throughout advent, we will be sharing our favourite moments from the year.

For Day One, we ask you to please donate to Drake Music Scotland this festive season, and help us to support disabled musicians across Scotland.

Text DMS5 to donate £5 or DMS10 to donate £10 to 70255. Or visiting our Just Giving page for more ways to donate - https://www.justgiving.com/charity/drakemusicscotland

Image Description - Words as written above on a background of a Christmas tree with a single orange bauble with the Drake Music Scotland logo and the whole image has a candy cane border in red and white. Next to the text to donate section is a QR code to the Just Giving website. At the bottom of the image are two boys smiling and playing the keyboard with super imposed Santa hats on. Drake Music Scotland are Scottish charity SC026908.

27/11/2025

A great opportunity has arisen for creative and strategic thinkers to join the Board of Directors of Marc Brew Company. Expertise in finance & fundraising, advocacy, digital, HR and EDI, environment and climate change and other areas such as charitable work. 👇👇

Marc Brew Company is looking to appoint new trustees to join the Board of Directors!

The Board of Directors are responsible for establishing and maintaining the values and aims of the organisation, and, with the Artistic Director and Executive Producer, for developing long-term strategies and planning. Board Members should be engaged and passionate about Marc Brew Company’s work and be committed to the future development of inclusive dance in Scotland and internationally.

We are looking for Trustees who:
Are strategic and creative thinkers
Bring sound judgement to decision making at Board level
Can offer specific expertise and knowledge in relevant fields
Are not afraid to speak their mind in a respectful way
Have the ability to advocate for the organisation
Can commit to the time required
Understand and accept the legal duties and responsibilities of the role.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Please visit the link below for the Recruitment Pack, to find out more and how to apply.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g4p7rev8y9c7mmd9cngmf/MBC-Board-Member-Recruitment-Pack.pdf?rlkey=ru3k0peaimanuvqgeapdth2qh&e=1&st=kauv3xit&dl=0

Deadline: Wednesday 17th December 2025