In case anyone missed all the excitement here at weekend Folk Radio UK have been nominated in the prestigious MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards in the category Trad Music in the media in recognition for presenting Scottish traditional music well.
Needless to say we are over the moon with this nomination, this is certainly the largest recognition we’ve had to date since we first launched Folk Radio UK back in 2004. It’s now all down to the public vote so please show your support by voting here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/scotstradmusicawards
We’ll be brining you more on the awards very soon, in the meantime, here are all the nominees along with links to those that we’ve featured on Folk Radio UK:
Album of the Year – Sponsored by Birnam CD
Live at Celtic Connections (Duncan Chisholm)
Heirs and Graces (Adam Holmes)
The Brightest Path (Patsy Reid)
Echoes (Emily Smith)
Club of the Year – Sponsored by Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (TRACS)
Tin Hut Sessions
Acoustic Music Club
Folk at the Salmon Bothy
Coalburn Box and Fiddle Club
Community Project of the Year – Sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust
Stirling Scots Song Project
Big Song Relay
Summer Isles Festival
Inverness Gaelic Choir
Composer of the Year – Sponsored by PRS for Music
Tina Jordan Rees
Jim Sutherland
Findlay Napier
Inge Thompson
Gavin Marwick
Event of the Year – Sponsored by VisitScotland
GRIT: The Martyn Bennet Story
Struileag – Children of the Smoke
Boomerang
Girvan Folk Festival
Gaelic Singer of the Year – Sponsored by Macmeanmna
Angus MacLeod
Linda Macleod
Mischa Macpherson
Ewen Henderson
Trad Music in the Media Award – Sponsored by Skipinnish
Hotchkiss Hotchpotch – Celtic Music Radio
Folk Radio UK
Isles FM
The Living Tradition Magazine
Instrumentalist of the Year – Sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Catriona McKay
Rachel Newton
Mike Vass
James MacIntosh
Ewan MacPherson
Live Act of the Year – Sponsored by Greentrax
Skipinnish
Gavin Marwick’s Journeyman Spectacular
Skerryvore
Peatbog Faeries
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year – Sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland
Robyn Stapleton
Emily Smith
Ewan McLennan
Gerda Stevenson
Scott Gardner
Scottish Dance Band of the Year – Sponsored by the National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs
Jack Delaney Scottish Dance Band
Da Fustra
Matthew MacLennan Scottish Dance Band
Burns Brothers Ceilidh Band
Scottish Folk Band of the Year – Sponsored by Threads of Sound
Julie Fowlis
Daimh
Heidi Talbot Band
Scott Wood Band
Pipe Band of the Year – Sponsored by The National Piping Centre
Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band
West Lothian Schools Pipe Band
Inverary and District Pipe Band
Bleary and District Band
Up and Coming Artist of the Year – Sponsored by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Twelfth Day
Cherrygrove
The Elephant Sessions
Dallahan
Barluath
Salt House
Music Tutor of the Year – Sponsored by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative
Douglas Montgomery
Hamish Napier
Debbie Ross
Eunice Henderson
Venue of the Year Award
Stirling Tolbooth
Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
The Ceilidh Place
Perth Concert Hall
Vote Now: projects.scottishcultureonline.com/scotstradmusicawards/voting/