Very sad news today with the death of legendary piano player Pam Wilkie. Pam was one of the great mainstays and characters of Scottish country dance music, a pianist whose sure sense of tempo has been the foundation of many of the leading bands of the past sixty years. She was inducted in the Scottish […]
Celtic Connections: Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Exhibition
I’m very happy to announce that our Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame exhibition will be appearing at Celtic Connections Festival this January. All the photos taken by Louis DeCarlo show various portraits of inductees across the year since the inception of Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in 2003. Louis will be hosting a chat […]
Stewart Cruickshank RIP
It’s with a heavy heart we announce the death of our 2015 Services to Broadcasting Inductee Stewart Cruickshank. Stewart was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in early 2015 when we hosted a great fun dinner in Glasgow where Stewart invited all Stewart’s pals. Fellow broadcaster Iain Anderson gave a great introduction and […]
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame at Celtic Connections
We are very happy to announce that Hall of Fame exhibition will be at Celtic Connections in Glasgow this January (2016). We will have over 20 of Louis DeCarlo’s photographs showing in the area where you enter the main auditorium at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. It will be great! The exhibition will show a […]
Services to Gaelic Award 2015
Our Services to Gaelic Award 2015 goes to the amazing Gaelic scholar Dr John MacInnes. Read about him below. You can read about our other Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame inductees here. DR JOHN MacInnes is the foremost living authority on the oral traditions of Scottish Gaeldom. He has field-collected, researched and written about […]
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame 2015 Podcast
This is a special edition of the Foot Stompin’ Podcast where we listen to the 2015 inductees of the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. Read about the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame at www.halloffame.scot Featuring: Dove Across the Water by Ossian Track – Duncan Johnstone/The Duck/The Curlew A Better Class of Folk by […]
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Dinner 2015 – The Photos!
We had a brilliant night on Friday 11th September at our annual Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Dinner. We were hosted by Blas Festival and Inverness Airport and a great time was had by all. The food was brill and it was lovely to meet all of the inductees from 2015 and their families. […]
2015 Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fam Inductees Announced
Hands Up for Trad are very pleased to announce the 2015 performer inductees to the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. They represent some of the amazing performers that have contributed to and taken Scottish music to where we are today. The inductees are Ossian The Singing Kettle Seonaidh Macmillan Maureen Jelks Violet Tulloch Willie […]
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Dinner 2015
The Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Dinner is on September 11th in Inverness Airport this year. As usual it will be a special celebration of some of Scotland’s finest musicians and singers with music from Rona Lightfoot and students from the Music HNC course at University of the Highlands and Islands. The inductees will be announced […]
Inductees to Services to Community announced in the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame
We are very lucky in Scottish traditional music to have amazing musicians and brilliant organisations. However most of the musicians and organisations wouldn’t be able to learn or operate without the help of passionate teachers, volunteers and mentors within the community. These people’s work (although appreciated) often goes uncelebrated so Hands Up for Trad have […]