From 10am to 6pm today and yesterday I have been in rehearsals with all my fellow finalists from the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2011 and the winner from 2010.  The rehearsals were held in the…
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Last Sunday I travelled up to Barra on the boat from Oban to teach keyboard at Fèis Bharraigh.  The week-long fèis was action packed with traditional instrument lessons, Scottish Gaelic classes, concerts and dances.  A bunch of fantastic tutors joined myself…
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Please click on the link http://tinajordanrees.com/trad/ to listen to the new track which I have uploaded to my website.  This track  is a set which I originally came up with for the final of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of…
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Earlier this week I was delighted to find out that I had achieved a 2:1 for my BA Hons in Scottish Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.  I’m sad that my time at the…
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Today I spent the afternoon in the recording studio at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama recording my 4 track demo of Irish dance music.  I began by recording the melody of the tunes with some drums and…
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Monday 6th June 2011 – I will be going into the recording studio at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama to record 4 tracks for my Irish dance music demo CD.  The tracks will be the 4 main dances…
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Fèis Bharraigh runs from 11th – 15th July 2011.  This year I will be joining the fantastic line-up of tutors as I will be teaching keyboard for the week.  Fèis Bharraigh was established in 1981 to promote the Gaelic language, literature, music,…
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