Moray Youth Music Forum are delighted to invite music professionals living and working in Moray to Feel the Beat, a free lunchtime networking event at The Loft, East Grange, Kinloss on 10 March 2011.

You are invited to join Bob Pegg, Joy Dunlop (Mod 2011 Gold Medallist) and Bill Taylor on 19th March 2011 at 2pm to participate in a drama at Carnassarie Castle, near Kilmartin, Argyll.

The Shetland Folk Festival committee have completed the line up for the 31st Festival by announcing more than fifty local bands that will play at venues the length and breadth of Shetland, as well as the Festival Club over the four-day event.

The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland (NYPB) will bring its exciting brand of pipe band music to Ross and Cromarty for the very first time on Saturday 26th March 2011, with the aim of fostering interest in piping and drumming and developing the talent of local young players.

A Musical Recital featuring John Rae’s fiddle, Stromness Museum, Orkney, 6 March 2011.

The annual Fèis Lochabair will take place from 11-15 April in Lochyside Primary School, Fort William.

Piatti String Quartet perform at the Town House in Inverness in March.

Hebrides Ensemble gives the Scottish premiere performances of Harrison Birtwistle’s Pulse Shadows in conjunction with ECAT from 7 – 11 March 2011 in Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh and Perth.

The Traditional Music Forum, Scotland’s network of traditional music organisations, hosts Trad Talk, its first conference to discuss and debate key issues for the traditional music community on 26 March 2011 in Dundee.

Corran Halls, Oban, 26 February 2011.