Drake Music Scotland

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. 🦎🔥

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

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. 💻🎶

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

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

19/11/2025

Young people at Kaimes and Rowanfield Schools took part in a project last year. Our Associate Musician, Farhad, worked with them to create scores for different cartoons! 🎶🫟

Track listing:
1. Fantasmagorie - Rowanfield
2. Superman - Kaimes
3. Hells Bells - Rowanfield
4. Mickey Mouse Steam Boat - Rowanfield
5. Clangers - Kaimes

Watch the video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/03SuSCDa8tk

This project was funded through The City of Edinburgh Council from Creative Scotland's Youth Music Initiative Funding.

Image Description 1: The outline of a cartoon person in white against a black background. 'Rowanfield - Fantasmagorie' in white text at the bottom.

Image Description 2: A cartoon of a shadow of a plane-like shape on a wooden floor. A mill wheel is in the background. 'Kaimes - Superman' in white text at the bottom.

Image Description 3: A black and white cartoon of black cat-like devils carrying a steaming, covered pot on a platter through a rocky landscape. 'Rowanfield - Hells Bells' in white text at the bottom.

Image Description 4: A black and white cartoon of Mickey Mouse hitting pots and pans hung on the wall while playing a kick drum with his tail. A bird looks on in the foreground. 'Rowanfield - Mickey Mouse Steam Boat' in white text at the bottom.

Image Description 5: A still from The Clangers showing two Clangers (mouse-like creatures) holding wires coming out of two holes on the surface of their planet. 'Kaimes - Clangers' in white text at the bottom.

17/11/2025

Delighted to share this film of our two-year collaboration with The Cumnock Tryst and Hebrides Ensemble, "The Unbroken Thread". It showcases the creative sessions leading up to a celebratory performance as part of the 2025 Cumnock Tryst Festival in October. Thanks to everyone involved in making this happen!

12/11/2025

Please vote in the Scots Trad Music Awards 2025.
We're particularly excited that Magnus Turpie and Friends & Rhona Smith are nominated - great representation of disabled musicians in Scotland!

Please do check out the link below and get voting for your favourite artists, acts, festivals, recordings, reflecting the great health of Trad in Scotland!

https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotstradmusicawards/voting/

More info about Magnus Turpie and Friends Here:
https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotstradmusicawards/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2025-magnus-turpie-and-friends/

More info about Rhona Smith here:
https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotstradmusicawards/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2025-rhona-smith/

Scots Trad Music Awards
Hands Up for Trad
Creative Scotland
PRS Foundation

Vote now in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Vote for your favourite act, organisation or album here or fill in the form below. Nominations close on Sunday 16th November at midnight. The awards…

07/11/2025

Are you our new freelance Associate Musician in Aberdeenshire?

We are recruiting for a new musician to join our freelance team in Aberdeenshire to take on some of our Youth Music Initiative work partnering with Live Life Aberdeenshire. The musician will take on projects in Aboyne and Alford. This may increase to work elsewhere in Aberdeenshire in future years.

If you are interested, please visit our website for more information: https://drakemusicscotland.org/jobs/

Closing date is 28th November at 5pm.

Image Description: A DMS Associate Musician sits in a classroom, playing a keyboard and singing. They are wearing a black DMS t-shirt. A young person wearing sunglasses, a backwards, bright green cap, and a multi-coloured t-shirt sits next to them and sings into a microphone. Text at the bottom reads: Are you our new Aberdeenshire Freelance Associate Musician?

05/11/2025

Things are sounding great in the CCA for SHRINE - Sorcha Pringle's new piece for Cryptic Nights.

Find out more and book tickets here - https://www.cryptic.org.uk/whatson/cryptic-nights-shrine/

Drake Music Scotland and Cryptic are part of the PRS Talent Development Network.

Cryptic Glasgow
PRS Foundation
Creative Scotland

03/11/2025

31/10/2025

Can't wait to share Clare Johnston Music latest exploration of sound and tech as part of Sound Festival - today, Friday, at 3pm in the King's Pavillion, Abderdeen University.

Here are Clare & Ali getting set up.

Creative Scotland
University of Aberdeen Music Department
Thanks to The Radcliffe Trust