Today we are announcing the first Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame inductees of 2016. The Hands Up for Trad Services to Community Awards recognises individuals that work tirelessly to help their community and enrich the lives of others through selfless service or charitable work. This section of the Hall of Fame started in 2015 […]
Services to Broadcasting Dinner – the photos!
We had a lovely time at Iain Anderson’s Broadcasting Dinner on Thursday 24th March. Held at The Scullery Restaurant in Glasgow – Iain and 45 friends and family joined us for a night of lovely food, conversation and presentations. Check out the photos below. You can read about Iain amazing career here. Default Gallery Type […]
Iain Anderson – Services to Broadcasting Award 2016
Hands Up for Trad are very happy to announce that our Services to Broadcasting Award 2016 is to be given to Iain Anderson. Iain has been a part of Scottish broadcasting life since the early 1970s and so many have grown up listening to him and even in my case had my first child announced […]
Pam Wilkie RIP
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. […]