The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards was held in Perth Concert Hall for a second year running on 3rd December 2011. The performers were Peatbog Faeries, Skerryvore, Salsa Celtica, Paul McKenna Band, Barbara Dickson Band, Cathy Ann MacPhee, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, Joe Aitken/Geordie Murison/Scott Gardiner, Feis Rois 25th Anniversary, Kristan Harvey Band, National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and Move. Check out the photos.
The nominees and winners were:
Album of the Year – Sponsored by Birnam CD
Manran – Manran (Mànran Records) (Winner)
Steele The Show – Songs From The Heart of Scotland – Various Artists (Greentrax)
Air Forladh (On Leave) – Gillebride MacMillan (Dealas)
Harlaw, Scotland 1411 (2CD set) – Bonnie Rideout (Tulloch Music, Ltd)
Club of the Year – Sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Milngavie Folk Club
Leith Folk Club (Winner)
Inveraray and District Accordion and Fiddle Club
Acoustic Music Club Kirkcaldy
Composer of the Year – Sponsored by PRS for Music
Aidan O’Rourke (Winner)
Anna Wendy Stevenson
Ailie Robertson
Calum MacCrimmon
Community Project of the Year – Sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust
Pathhead Music Collective
Tinto Summer School
Blazin In Beauly (Winner)
SCaT (Scottish Culture and Traditions)
Event of the Year – Sponsored by VisitScotland
Cullerlie Singing Weekend
Hallaig
Orkney Folk Festival (Winner)
Linlithgow Folk Festival
Gaelic Singer of the Year – Sponsored by Macmeanmna
Gillebride MacMillan
Joy Dunlop
Norrie MacIver (Winner)
Maeve Mackinnon
Trad Music in the Media – Sponsored by ScottishCultureOnline.com
The World Accordion To Phil (BBC2)
Transatlantic Sessions (Winner)
‘Caithream Ciùil’ BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal
Piping Times
Instrumentalist of the Year – Sponsored by Temple Records
Gordon Bruce
Sandy Brechin
Innes Watson (Winner)
Matheu Watson
Live Act of the Year – Sponsored by Greentrax Recordings
Unusual Suspects
Blazin’ Fiddles
Skerryvore (Winner)
Emily Smith and Band
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year – Sponsored by Traditional Music & Song Association.
Barbara Dymock
Brian McNeill
Shona Donaldson
Siobhan Miller (Winner)
Scottish Dance Band of the Year – Sponsored by National Associaton of Accordion & Fiddle Clubs
Iain Anderson Dance Band
Neil Hardie Scottish Dance Band
Robert Nairn Highland Band (Winner)
Iain MacPhail Scottish Dance Band
Scottish Folk Band of the Year – Sponsored by All Celtic Music
Rachel Hair Trio
Paul McKenna Band
Fribo
Battlefield Band (Winner)
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year – Sponsored by National Piping Centre
Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band (Winner)
George Watson’s College Pipe & Drums
Boghall and Bathgate
Pipes & Drums 1st Battalion Scots Guards
Up and Coming Artist of the Year – Sponsored by Royal Conservatoire
Rura (Winner)
Ross Couper and Tom Oakes
Kristan Harvey
Yuptie
Music Tutor of the Year – Sponsored by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative
Douglas Montgomery
Mike Vass
Mairi Campbell (Winner)
David Ross
Coda Music Venue of the Year – Sponsored by Coda Music
Bogbain Farm, Inverness
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
Perth Concert Hall
The Ben Nevis, Glasgow (Winner)