About Us

TMSA Staff Members

Caroline Scott: Office Manager

We're pleased to announce that Caroline has secured a new position and loves her new job. The TMSA board and membership thank her so much for all her past work on behalf of the TMSA and wish her all the very best in the future.

Caroline Hewat: Development Worker (North)
Caroline Hewat was born in Aberdeen and spent her formative years in Canada. She has two daughters who are both involved in the Scottish music industry. Before joining TMSA as Development Worker in 2001, she was the Director and Manager of Balnain House in Inverness, a traditional music resource centre, teaching establishment, music publisher and arts venue. During this time, she established many traditional music classes, the Highland Fiddle Festival, the Highland Harp Festival and created the Gathering.

She has been part of the Fèisean movement in the Highlands and currently, since developing the Celtic Connections Education programme in 1998, is also the Workshop Co-ordinator for the Festival. During the latter part of the nineties she was Chairman of the Promoters Arts Network in the Highlands and has attended many festivals in a professional capacity: WOMEX, Celtic Connections, Shetland Folk Festival, Skye Folk Festival, Celtic Colours in Cape Breton, Folk Alliance in Vancouver, Festival Interceltique in Lorient and various other local events.

She has recently completed her degree in Fine Art with the University of the Highlands and Islands and has since taken part in various exhibitions, both mixed and solo in Scotland and Iceland.

Telephone: +44 (0)1349 877434 / Email: carolinehewat@virgin.net

Gordon Divine: Administrative Assistant
Gordon joined the TMSA staff in January 2010 working directly under Caroline the Office Manager. One of his main roles is to look after the memberships. Gordon comes from a design and advertising background and has won a few awards as an art director with two of Scotland’s top agencies and also works with three dimensional projects.

Gordon plays guitar, sings and writes songs and has attended sessions in Midlothian throughout the years. He started a music session in his home village of Roslin with the intention of getting the latent talent out of the bedroom which met with reasonable success; his favourite singing experience was in front of an audience of 300 in New York. He has a 2nd degree black belt in Taekwon-Do and has been teaching since 2003, he competed for Scotland in the 2007 world championships bringing back a Gold medal.

Telephone +44 (0)131 555 2224 / Email: gordondivine@tmsa.org.uk

Pete Clarke: Events and Marketing Assistant
Pete joined the TMSA in February of 2010 having come from a mixture of computing and musical backgrounds. After finishing an undergraduate degree in computing Pete went on to work in the video games industry before returning to University to study his real passion, music.

Pete has been fascinated with musical instruments from a young age and plays guitar, piano and drums and is currently learning the banjo and tenor ukulele. In fact, the only problem Pete has with instruments is that there isn’t enough time to play them all! Pete recently graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MSc. in Digital Composition and Performance and is looking forward to using this experience in his new role with the TMSA.

Telephone +44 (0)131 555 2224 / Email: peteclarke@tmsa.org.uk