{"id":111620,"date":"2025-09-01T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111620\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:40:14","slug":"music-award-in-memory-of-manchester-arena-victim-eilidh-macleod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/111620\/","title":{"rendered":"Music award in memory of Manchester Arena victim Eilidh MacLeod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A new music award for young pipers and drummers has been set up in memory of a Scottish schoolgirl who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Eilidh MacLeod Access Fund will be run by the National Piping Centre and offer \u00a32,000 a year to young musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Bagpiper Eilidh, from the Isle of Barra, was 14 when she was <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-40152409\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killed in the 2017 terror attack<\/a> after an Ariana Grande concert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Eilidh&#8217;s Trust was established in 2018 and has since awarded more than \u00a3100,000 in music grants in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Eilidh was a member of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and travelled the country taking part in competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The new fund is open to applications from pipers and drummers under the age of 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Iagan MacNeil, from the trust, said: &#8220;We are committed to making music learning as accessible as possible for all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We understand that financial barriers are often a reason for young people to either not embark on their journey or dropping out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Learning an instrument can be such an enriching experience that offers more than music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Eilidh, who attended Castlebay Community School in Barra, was among the 22 people killed in the bombing in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She and friend Laura MacIntyre were at the Ariana Grande concert with thousands of fans of the US pop star. Laura survived but was badly injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new music award for young pipers and drummers has been set up in memory of a Scottish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-111620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}