"small tradition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a practice or custom that is specific to a small area or group of people. For example, "The small town has a small tradition of parading through the streets in costume on Halloween night."
But what started as a way to get the children involved has gradually become, for each, a small tradition — the thing they do to make the big meal happen.
There is, however, a small tradition of Cuban drummers who hit New York like asteroids -- powerhouses who are expert writers and readers of music, who can teach it and who spur on everyone around them.
If somebody asks something personal, such as, "What do you do for your birthday?" answer with something such as, "I'm always with my family and we have a small tradition.
In a small, tradition-minded world like bluegrass, it's easy to make a splash — the group also won several awards last year from the International Bluegrass Music Association — by sounding as if you've always been around.
Certainly Julie is in for culture shock, as she and Ibrahim exchange roles: in his family's small, tradition-bound village on the edge of the desert she is now the outsider, unable to speak the language and ignorant of Muslim traditions.
His lettering is among one of the many small traditions that make up the fabric of the Yankees, but when this season ends, the 66-year-old Monahan will put down the pen.
Whatever the case, Prunty has spent the last two decades trying to find an answer by examining the ways in which human experience is made up of small traditions bound together into a larger story -- the subset of ritual within narrative, one might say.
Those small traditions were what kept me sane.
Last week we were talking about ants, people and the small traditions that sustain us day to day.
The father is a teacher, although his family is of the Tennessee logging tradition, something rough and hard, men and women living on the essentials of the new Eden, harborers of small traditions of humor and song but mostly beaten down like proud flags in the dust, white folk ground into nothing, and bitter for it.
Encircled by German troops, they would otherwise have starved.Mr Blocher was cheered by a crowd of middle-aged mainly German-speakers, stressing the support his People's Party enjoys in eastern Switzerland, particularly in the smaller, tradition-minded cantons.
