Case Studies

We successfully held 5 concerts as planned, although due to the unavailability of the planned trumpet player we instead arranged for Sasha Savaloni to team up with another guitar player to form a very well-received guitar duo. We also collaborated with OIC instrumental service and Scottish Young Musicians to hold our Young Musicians festival, adjudicated by Jack Westwell – which was attended by over 100 participants from all over Orkney and is something we would like to repeat in future years.

The funding supported the costs of creating a short residency at Soulisquoy Printmakers for master printmaker Mike Waight to visit Orkney and provide his expertise and knowledge of photo-etching techniques and to modifying our current etching facility to accommodate photo-etching and to deliver a series of workshops and masterclasses for both beginners and those with some etching experience.

We requested support to establish a new music event, Water Sound Bluegrass, and Roots Festival based across the Churchill Barriers, on the two linked Isles of Burray and South Ronaldsay, specifically to support travel and performing costs for our visiting acts.