The time has flown by and now there is only a few days left to vote for your favourite act or organisation in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards!
The prestigious MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards is a staple in the traditional music calendar with an astounding seventeen categories this year. Winners will be revealed exclusively to a live audience of music fans and industry at Perth Concert Hall on Saturday 1st December. The event will be broadcast live on BBC ALBA, BBC Radio Scotland and globally through the BBC ALBA website and will be presented by Mary Ann Kennedy and Kim Carnie.
The shortlists are as follows:
Album of the Year sponsored by Birnam CD
Alterum by Julie Fowlis
EVO by Skerryvore
Punch by The Poozies
Sanctuary by Ross Ainslie
Sandwood by Duncan Chisholm
Some Other Land by Adam Sutherland
Symbiosis II by Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton
The Key by Blazin’ Fiddes
The Railway by Hamish Napier
The Seer by Lauren MacColl
The Belhaven Bursary for Innovation
Breabach
Dàimh
Fara
Inyal
Nae Plans
Niteworks
Rachel Newton
Siobhan Miller
Talisk
Tide Lines
Club of the Year Sponsored by Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (Tracs)
Craigie Folk Club
Arc Sessions, Fochabers
Partick Folk Club
Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Club
Composer of the Year Sponsored by PRS for Music
Alasdair Taylor (Elephant Sessions)
Duncan Chisholm
Jenny Sturgeon
Sileas Sinclair
Community Project of the Year Sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust
Taynuilt Ceilidhs
Care for a Ceilidh
Fèis Gleann Albainn
Ceilidh Makers
Event of the Year Sponsored by VisitScotland
Far Far from Ypres
Bothy Culture and Beyond, Celtic Connections
Findhorn Bay Festival
Mull Music Festival
Gaelic Singer of the Year Sponsored by Macmeanmna
Josie Duncan
Maeve Mackinnon
Eilidh Cormack
Ruairidh Cormack
Instrumentalist of the Year Sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Mike Vass
Laura Wilkie
Patsy Reid
Calum Stewart
Live Act of the Year Sponsored by Greentrax Recordings
Karine Polwart
Findlay Napier
Niteworks
Elephant Sessions
Talisk
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year Sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association
Iona Fyfe
George Duff
Hannah Rarity
Christine Kydd
Scottish Dance Band of the Year Sponsored by National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs
David Kennedy SDB
Susan MacFadyen SDB
Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
Iain MacPhail SDB
Scottish Folk Band of the Year Sponsored by Threads of Sound
Paul McKenna Band
Ímar
Dàimh
Ryan Young and Jenn Butterworth
Kinnaris
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year
North Lanarkshire Schools
Inverary and District
Preston Lodge Novice B Pipe Band
Scottish Power Pipe Band
Trad Music in the Media Sponsored by Skipinnish
The Groove is Not Trivial (Film)
Scots Radio
Pipeline, BBC Radio Scotland
The National
Music Tutor of the Year Sponsored by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative
Anna Wendy Stevenson
Grant McFarlane
Heather Anderson
Mhairi Marwick
Up and Coming Artist of the Year Sponsored by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Heisk
Assynt
Project Smok
Eabhal
Venue of the Year Award Sponsored by Musicians’ Union
Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock
Crafts and Things, Glencoe
Glenbuchat Hall, Aberdeenshire
Drygate Brewery, Glasgow