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Bruce MacGregor hears about the music being made, played and talked about in Scotland.

Bruce MacGregor hears about the music being made, played and talked about in Scotland with live sessions, new releases and interviews with musicians of the moment.

The Music Café: 02/02/2011

02/02/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Music Café, 02/02/2011

Is it time we paid for music tuition? The art of writing lyrics & the beauty of Bond music

The future of the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music is in jeopardy. Should we accept that music tuition is a victim of public spending cuts?

There are plans to withdraw the funding for The National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music which would lead to its closure. How much do we value music tuition and should we be prepared to pay for music or is traditional music such an important part of our culture that the state should be funding it?

Let's Get Lyrical is a month long campaign aimed at getting everybody in Scotland to celebrate the soundtrack to our lives: song lyrics. Lyricists, Findlay Napier and Dean Owens talk about the dark art or writing words for music

In a week when we have heard lots about the music of the James Bond movies, critic Siobhan Synnot talks about the great and not so great Bond themes from the movie back catalogue.

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