It was brilliant to get along to Edinburgh’s Tradfest festival last week to present Archie Fisher with a Landmark Award celebrating his 55 years as a professional musician. This is some achievement! Archie was performing in the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the 2nd May. The first half of gig was in conversation with Dave Francis […]
Stonehaven Folk Club Landmark Presentation
We had a lovely time in Stonehaven on Saturday night – 4th March – presenting Stonehaven Folk club with their Hands Up for Trad Landmark Award. The club started in 1987 and has been going strong ever since. This was a celebration weekend for them and they had Dallahan, The Spiers Family and Siobhan Miller […]
The Irish Minstrels CCÉ Landmark Presentation
It was great to go along to the Irish Minstrels CCE concert at Celtic Connections and present them with our Landmark Award. 60 years is an amazing achievement for this organisation and it continues to go from strenth to strength. This was the second of 2 events – the first being a sold out dinner […]
Birnam CD Landmark presentation
We had a great time meeting up with Birnam CD last week to celebrate their 30 years in the business. Here is Simon Thoumire’s presentation speech. Since leaving Silly Wizard Martin Hadden has been a busy man. In 1986 he set up Birnam Tapes to duplicate cassettes for the industry – a much needed resource […]
Hamish And Fin Moore Landmark Award Presentation – Saturday 5th November 2016
It was a pleasure to present Hamish and Fin Moore with a Hands Up for Trad Landmark Award to celebrate 30 years of their business last Saturday in the Counting House, Edinburgh. The place was packed full of friends and musicians and when I left there were 2 sessions going on in two different rooms […]
Irvine Folk Club Presentation 19th October 2016
We had a lovely time at the Irvine Folk Club anniversary dinner. We eat lovely steak pie and desert and then presented Joyce Hodge with the Landmark Award! You can watch the video below. Here is the text of Simon’s speech. There must have been something in the air in 1966! The Traditional Music and […]
Phil and Aly presentation 1st October 2016
Hands Up for Trad were very pleased to present Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain with our Landmark Award celebrating 30 years as a touring act. Both Phil and Aly have worked tirelessly for Scottish music and have promoted our music successively across the world with various band (Boys of the Lough, Silly Wizard) for many […]
Robbie Shepherd presentation
We had a lovely time in Aiberdeen presenting Robbie Shepherd with his Landmark Award. What an amazing career! Robbie’s voice is so memorable! In fact Robbie told us on the day that the Saturday before he went down to his local hostelry to watch the football and he ended up sitting beside an Irish man. […]
Traditional Music and Song Association Landmark Presentation
It was a real pleasure to head up to Blairgowrie on Saturday evening and take part in the sold out TMSA 50th Anniversary concert. 1966, the TMSA emerged from the Blairgowrie Folk Festival and to celebrate this they decided to put on a concert to remember the first festival. Singing and playing were Archie Fisher, […]
Alasdair Fraser’s Skye Fiddle Camp 1986 – 2016 Landmark Award Presentation
On Tuesday 26th July Hands Up for Trad headed up to Skye to present Alasdair Fraser’s Skye Fiddle Camp with a Landmark Award for an amazing 30 years. Read about the amazing work of the Gaithering here. We broadcast the presentation live and you can watch a video of the presentation here. Below is my […]