The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2014 were held in Inverness Leisure Centre on 13th December. It was our first time in Inverness and it was a great success. The performers were Shooglenifty, Fiddlers Bid, Rura, Robyn Stapleton, Na h-Òganaich, Ceòl nam Fèis, St Roch’s Senior Ceili Band, Stuart Liddell, Cruinn, Adam Sutherland Bandand Steele the Show. Check out the photos.
The nominations and winners were: (Read the press release)
Album of the Year – Sponsored by Birnam CD
Live at Celtic Connections (Duncan Chisholm) (Winner)
Heirs and Graces (Adam Holmes)
The Brightest Path (Patsy Reid)
Echoes (Emily Smith)
Club of the Year – Sponsored by Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (TRACS)
Tin Hut Sessions (Winner)
Acoustic Music Club
Folk at the Salmon Bothy
Coalburn Box and Fiddle Club
Community Project of the Year – Sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust
Stirling Scots Song Project
Big Song Relay
Summer Isles Festival (Winner)
Inverness Gaelic Choir
Composer of the Year – Sponsored by PRS for Music
Tina Jordan Rees
Jim Sutherland (Winner)
Findlay Napier
Inge Thompson
Gavin Marwick
Event of the Year – Sponsored by VisitScotland
GRIT: The Martyn Bennet Story (Winner)
Struileag – Children of the Smoke
Boomerang
Girvan Folk Festival
Gaelic Singer of the Year – Sponsored by Macmeanmna
Angus MacLeod
Linda Macleod
Mischa Macpherson (Winner)
Ewen Henderson
Trad Music in the Media Award – Sponsored by
Hotchkiss Hotchpotch – Celtic Music Radio
Folk Radio UK
Isles FM (Winner)
The Living Tradition Magazine
Instrumentalist of the Year – Sponsored by Temple Records
Catriona McKay (Winner)
Rachel Newton
Mike Vass
James MacIntosh
Ewan MacPherson
Live Act of the Year – Sponsored by Greentrax
Skipinnish (Winner)
Gavin Marwick’s Journeyman Spectacular
Skerryvore
Peatbog Faeries
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year – Sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association
Robyn Stapleton
Emily Smith (Winner)
Ewan MacLennan
Gerda Stevenson
Scott Gardner
Scottish Dance Band of the Year – Sponsored by the National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs
Jack Delaney Scottish Dance Band
Da Fustra (Winner)
Matthew MacLennan Scottish Dance Band
Burns Brothers Ceilidh Band
Scottish Folk Band of the Year – Sponsored by Threads of Sound
Julie Fowlis (Winner)
Daimh
Heidi Talbot Band
Scott Wood Band
Pipe Band of the Year – Sponsored by The National Piping Centre
Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band
West Lothian Schools Pipe Band (Winner)
Inverary and District Pipe Band
Bleary and District Band
Up and Coming Artist of the Year – Sponsored by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Twelfth Day
Cherrygrove
The Elephant Sessions (Winner)
Dallahan
Barluath
Salt House
Music Tutor of the Year – Sponsored by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative
Douglas Montgomery (Winner)
Hamish Napier
Debbie Ross
Eunice Henderson
Venue of the Year Award
Stirling Tolbooth
Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
The Ceilidh Place (Winner)
Perth Concert Hall