Scotland's trad music losing women due to 'commonplace sexism'

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SCOTLAND is potentially losing out on brilliant musicians because of gender inequality, it has been warned. 

The problem was again under the spotlight last week during Edinburgh Tradfest in a talk given by Dr Una Monaghan who has researched the impact of gender on participation in Irish traditional music.

Dr Lori Watson (above) of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, who curated and chaired the Rebellious Truth lecture-recital and panel discussion, told the Sunday National that it was clear there were parallels between women’s experience of gender inequality in the trad scene in Scotland and Ireland.