{"id":6422,"date":"2020-06-28T18:43:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T17:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/?page_id=6422"},"modified":"2021-12-15T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:37:13","slug":"ma-music-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/ma-music-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update: After two years amid a pandemic  and the successful completion of a successful Masters project Riddell Fiddles are delighted that this UHI inspired project won \u2018Community Project of the Year\u2019 in the televised Scots Traditional Music Awards in December 2021. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running a long established and successful community music group &#8216;Riddell Fiddles&#8217;  in Selkirk I have always wanted to start a pilot project for young people in the neighbouring town of Hawick and ,in particular, Burnfoot Housing Estate &#8211; an area  particularly high  on the deprivation index for Scotland. It is also an area where musical opportunities for young people are not widely prevalent. Previous experience of setting up such a young group in Selkirk has been successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The provision for a community project within the Masters (MA) in Music and Environment gave me the incentive to seek funding and initiate this community music group and to evaluate the trial period with a view to sustaining the initial block into a more established long term group within the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would like to thank guitarist Gary Smith, a Riddell Fiddles&#8217; tutor and fellow Scottish Borders Council employee, who worked with me to provide the guitar tuition side of &#8216;Burnfoot Buskers&#8217; as it became named and who helped support the positive ethos and differentiated teaching required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks also go to David Scott, percussionist with Riddell Fiddles, who took photographs, filmed clips and led the group warm ups as well as  conducted  interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Robertson Trust and the Eilidh Macleod Trust allowed the project to go ahead initially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: After two years amid a pandemic and the successful completion of a successful Masters project Riddell Fiddles are delighted that this UHI inspired project won \u2018Community Project of the Year\u2019 in the televised Scots Traditional Music Awards in December 2021. Running a long established and successful community music group &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6422","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9341,"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6422\/revisions\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riddellfiddles.scot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}