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 on air! Read more about Iain’s amazing life below.
FOR more than four decades, three of them with BBC Radio Scotland, the richly mellow tones of Iain Anderson have presented an often eclectic range of music, from Celtic to classical, but particularly the work of singer-songwriters, from both sides of the Atlantic.
Iain’s shows over the years have taken to the airwaves under various titles – Tide and Island, Sun and Candlelight and Mr Anderson’s Fine Tunes, but it is as the eponymous Iain Anderson – aka “the good ship Hesperus” – that his show currently sets sail, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, on Radio Scotland. Its playlists, encompassing folk, country, blues and beyond, are as likely to feature such timeless greats as Sandy Denny , Leonard Cohen or Emmylou Harris as such contemporary names from home and abroad as Kim Edgar, Greg Trooper or Rhiannon Giddens.
Ian’s contribution will be celebrated with a dinner in March and will include his induction to the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame.
Read Jim Gilchrist’s complete biography of Iain Anderson.
Read about our previous Services to Broadcasting recipients.