Plockton musicians take their traditional Music School campaign to Glasgow

Young musicians from Plockton, Wester Ross, brought their campaign to save their Music School from the Highlands to Glasgow's George Square on Saturday 5th February, 2011.

Based at Plockton High School in the west Highlands, Sgoil Chiùil na Gàidhealtachd is a National Centre of Excellence for traditional Scottish music.

They ask that friends of Scottish traditional music support them by signing the petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42495.html.

From the petition statement:

"The Highland Council has targeted the National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music, based at Plockton High School, in its proposed cuts package. http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2115087

"If the cuts are voted through at the Highland Council meeting on February 10, the Centre could close as soon as July next year. Director Dougie Pincock was interviewed on the BBC this morning and said that while he expected the Centre to take its share of any cuts he 'hadn't anticipated it would be all of it.'

"Plockton has been an integral part of Scottish Traditional Music for the past 10 years. It has started many of our best young musicians on the road to their career and provided training in traditional music and groupwork from some of Scotland's finest musicians. Our young folk could not have gained this level of training anywhere else."

Petition: http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42495.html
"We, the undersigned, call on the Highland Council not to close the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music at Plockton High School".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• flute
• Scottish music
• fiddle
• traditional music
• guitar
• cello
• violin
• bagpipes
• small pipes
• clarsach
• Plockton
• Wester Ross
• Highland
• Highlands
• Scotland
• Scottish
• Glasgow
• George Square
• accordian
• whistle

[Promoagent]

Power to the people what would we do without music?

[dafthermit]

magic guys and great news that the highland council have decided to back you all

[incongra]

Okay then well just out of curiosity. if they had put a tin cup down, as street musicians or buskers, how much money would this repetitive fiddle diddle have earned them. ( bearing in mind there appears to be no audience). Long live the long suffering taxpayer eh!