@ Lang Johnnie Mor - Yes, that was me posting about the newly created Edinburgh branch of CCE on The Session (under my real name, which lots of people here know anyway! They seem to be doing well: this very weekend (tomorrow night, 30th, and most of Sunday) there is a Trad Fest in Leith, run by Tom Oakes. The CCE group have been invited to host one of the sessions in gentle-paced Irish tunes, so it's looking good for them. More details here:
Winter Trad
As for the TMSA, and as I mentioned further up the thread, they used to get annual funding from the former Scottish Arts Council, but when the latter morphed into Creative Scotland, that funding stopped (same for Scots Music Group too.)Protests outside the Scottish Parliament, supported by some music-loving MSPs failed to cut any ice!