Welcome to our new-style newsletter, featuring the first of several quizzes,
an SMG lockdown music story and a Zoom class in action. We also want to hear your music stories - scroll down and join in the fun!
TELL US YOUR LOCKDOWN MUSIC STORIES
We'd like to hear how your music's going! Many of our tutors are offering online learning in some form, and you may be meeting up with SMG musical friends informally online.
How are you finding online learning?
Are you singing or playing to (or with) your neighbours?
Have you set yourself a musical challenge?
Tell us your lockdown music stories, and we'll feature them in our newsletters in the next few months. Keep them short (maximum 200 words) and include a photo if you can.
Tutor and Interim Development Worker Sarah Northcott has taken up a musical challenge! Here's her story:
At 8pm on Thursday nights down here in Tweedsmuir, folk have been out showing their appreciation for frontline workers by clapping and banging pots, and young Fergus has been playing his pipes across the valley (which is where he lives – we haven't banished him). As we're so spread out, some folk are even doing this on Zoom! One of my neighbours, who went to Andy Warren's SMG accordion class briefly many years ago, said that she'd been playing Scotland The Brave. I foolishly said that I'd join her...on accordion. We now meet, in a socially distant manner, at the crossroads (a very blues thing to do) and serenade our other neighbours, who are paramedics. I can pretty much play the left hand too if I don't think too hard. We're going to have a go at Fairy Dance this week – I'd better get on with my homework!
SMG SONG BOOKS EMOJI QUIZ Grab a pen & paper and guess the songs
Answers will be posted on the website on Tuesday 5th May
Got a question about telling your story, making a donation & Gift Aid? Please contact the SMG office by email or phone
If you have a suggestion for a future quiz we'd love to hear your ideas
Please get in touch
Hello accordion students!
Here's Keith Dickson and his Accordion 3 class
Donate to Scots Music Group If you would like to, and feel that you can afford to, you can make a donation to SMG to help support the organisation through the challenging months ahead.
For more information, Gift Aid forms & to donate please go to the Donations page on the SMG website
Many thanks to everyone who has already made a donation
Feis Rois are holding their adult feis online this weekend, 1st – 3rd May 2020. It features great workshops and concerts with a host of top tutors in all kinds of instruments and song. More details at www.feisrois.org, or go to the Feis Rois Facebook page.
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SMG OFFICE UPDATE Sarah & Helen are working from home staffing our virtual
office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays as usual.
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