The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2012 returned to the Nevis Centre, Fort William on 8th December 2012. This was the first year the Awards were broadcast live on the TV from 9-11pm. It brought new production values to the show making it more slick and sticking to time! The performers were Treacherous Orchestra, Karine Polwart, Mairearad and Anna, Rona Wilkie, Inveraray and District Pipe Band, Mike Whellans, Man’s Ruin, Gaelic Women, Gordon Duncan Experience, Tribute to National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs. Check out the photos.
The nominees and winners were:
Album of the Year – Sponsored by Birnam CD
Traces – Karine Powart: Hegri Music
Cillebhride – Kathleen MacInnes: KMA (Winner)
Origins – Treacherous Orchestra: Navigator Records
The Shadow Side – Rachel Newton: Shee
Club of the Year sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Balerno Folk Club
Falkirk Folk Club (Winner)
Highland Accordion & Fiddle Club
Aberdeen Folk Club
Composer of the Year – Sponsored by PRS for Music
Simon Bradley
Mike Vass (Winner)
Laura Beth Salter
Paul Anderson
Community Project of the Year sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust
Scots Music Group ‘Inspire’ Project
Tiree Music Festival
Feis Rois Local and National Ceilidh Trail 2012 (Winner)
Glasgow Irish Minstrels
Event of the Year sponsored by VisitScotland
Stonehaven Folk Festival
Scots Fiddle Festival (Winner)
Feis Na Mara
Bring It All Home – Gerry Rafferty Remembered. Celtic Connections
Up and Coming Artist of the Year – Sponsored by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Brandon McPhee
Alistair Ogilvy
Rona Wilkie
Niteworks (Winner)
Gaelic Singer of the Year – Sponsored by Macmeanmna
Isobel Ann Martin
Riona Whyte (Winner)
Gillie Mackenzie
Fiona J Mackenzie
Trad Music in the Media – sponsored by The Saltire Society
Paddy Bort – Editing Hamish Henderson ‘Trilogy’
Gary West – Voicing Scotland
Julie Fowlis for Brave (Winner)
BBC Alba Documentary – The Campbells of Greepe
Instrumentalist of the Year – Sponsored by Temple Records
Duncan Chisholm (Winner)
Ross Ainslie
Megan Henderson
Lorne MacDougall
Live Act of the Year – sponsored by Greentrax Recordings
The Shee
Kris Drever
Fred Morrison
Session A9 (Winner)
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year – sponsored by TMSA
Scott Murray
Paul McKenna (Winner)
Christine Kydd
Alasdair Roberts
Dance Band of the Year – sponsored by the National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs
Deoch and Dorus (Winner)
Monach Isle Ceilidh Band
Charlie Kirkpatrick Scottish Dance Band
Graeme Mitchell Scottish Dance Band
Folk Band of the Year – sponsored by All Celtic Music
Rua MacMillan trio
RuRa
Paul McKenna Band
Breabach (Winner)
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year sponsored by National Piping Centre
Coalburn I.O.R
Fife Constabulary Pipe Band
Huntly & District Pipe Band
George Watson’s College Pipes and Drums (Winner)
Music Tutor of the Year sponsored by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative
Lyndsey Tate
Sharon Hassan
Gillian Frame (Winner)
Scott Murray
Venue of the Year
An Tobar
Sandy Bells
New Cample
Bogbain Farm, Inverness (Winner)
