Tinto Summer School

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Amazing news! Tinto has been nominated as "Community Project of the Year" in the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2011! You can vote for us.

RBS Community Force voting has now ended - we'll let you know the result as soon as we do!

Tinto Summer School 2012 will be 2nd - 7th July 2012 and Weekend Tinto Summer School 2012 will be 3rd - 5th August 2012. If you want to receive registration details then you can join our mail list.

Check out the audio from Tinto 2009 and video from Tinto 2010!

Tinto Summer School is a 5-day residential school in traditional music for high school age (12-18) participants. The school takes place at Wiston Lodge, a beautiful Victorian former hunting lodge in the peaceful rural heart of South Lanarkshire. Students partake in five hours of teaching per day with top traditional musicians from all over the country. Former tutors include Charlie McKerron, Anna Massie, Shona Mooney, Patsy Reid, Maeve McKinnon, Adam Sutherland, Karine Polwart, Liz Doherty to Corrina Hewat and Findlay Napier to name but a few.

In addition to the teaching we have a number of activites for evenings and breaks including campfires, BBQs, a fancy dress ceilidh and a tutor concert as well as outdoor games such as frisbee, boomerang, football, rounders and retrieving the aerobie and boomerang from trees (possibly everyone`s favourite game.).

We end the week with a fantastic participants concert in Coulter Village Hall before an all-night party to celebrate a fantastic time had by all.

Interested? You can find out more...

Find out about this years tutors
Have a look at a typical timetable
Find out how about the house staff

Tinto Summer School is organised by Simon Thoumire of Hands up for Trad and administered by Paul Murray.

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