MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2020 – The Nominations

Voting is open between Monday 2nd November and closes Sunday 15th November at midnight. VOTE HERE

The nominations are:

1. Music Tutor of the Year, sponsored by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative

• Rua MacMillan
• Rachel Hair
• Josie Duncan
• Lauren MacColl
• Corrina Hewat
• Laura-Beth Salter
• Louise (Mackenzie) Douglas

2. Gaelic Singer of the Year, sponsored by The Highland Society of London

• Fionnag NicChoinnich (Fiona MacKenzie)
• Joy Dunlop
• Rachel Walker
• Raymond Bremner

3. Album of The Year, sponsored by Birnam CD

• All Is Not Forgotten by Siobhan Miller
• Banjaxed by Ciaran Ryan
• Bayview by Project Smoke
• Eye of the Storm by Tide Lines
• Light My Byre by Peat & Diesel
• Shhh I’m on the phone by Innes Watson
• Steall by Ewen Henderson
• The Ledger by Gillian Frame, Findlay Napier and Mike Vass
• The Roke by Ross Miller
• The Woods by Hamish Napier

4. Up & Coming artist of the Year, sponsored by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

• Benedict Morris
• Rebecca Hill
• Malin Makes Music 
• Avocet

5. Community Music Project of the Year, sponsored by Greentrax Recordings

• Campbell’s Ceilidh
• Tunes in the Hoose
• MacGregor’s Live at Five
• Hands Up for Trad Strathspey and Reel Society
• Covid Choir Workshops
• Carry On Streamin
• Comhairle Cèilidhs (Comhairle nan Eilean Siar)

6. Event of the Year Award sponsored by VisitScotland

• 365 stories + Music (Aidan O’Rourke and James Robertson)
• Virtual Edinburgh International Harp Festival
• Fèis Rois Adult Feis Weekend Online
• Tional Gaelic Online Music Festival
• BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 20th Anniversary Concert (Celtic Connections)
• Coastal Connections (Celtic Connections)

7. Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year, sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association (TMSA)

• Siobhan Miller
• Claire Hastings
• Adam Holmes
• Allan & Rosemary McMillan

8. Trad Video of the Year, sponsored by Threads of Sound

• Erica’s by Balter
• Calum Dan’s Transit Van by Peat & Diesel
• Deep Dark Beast by Twelfth Day
• Moorlough Shore by ELIR
• Ceòl Mòr Style by Calum MacCrimmon
• Taste the Rain by Tide Lines Choir

9. Online Performance of 2020, sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust

• Sandy on Sunday Show (Sandy Brechin)
• Live from The Lounge with Paul Anderson and Shona Donaldson
• Pete Clark From The Shed
• Tide Lines Virtual World Tour
• Skerryvore Live Across The World
• Duncan Chisholm’s #CovidCeilidh
• Lomond Ceilidh Band’s The Daily Ceilidh

10. Original Work of the Year, sponsored by PRS for Music

• The Woods by Hamish Napier
• Everyday Heroes by Skerryvore
• Graham Rorie – The Orcadians of Hudson Bay
• Rachel Newton – To the Awe
• Camhanaich (Dawn) by Mhairi Hall

11. Trad Music in the Media, sponsored by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

• Marie Martin – Box and Fiddle Magazine
• Ewan Galloway and Derek Hamilton – RadioGH
• Fiona McNeill – Celtic & Folk Fusions Radio Show
• Sruth na Maoile (BBC Radio nan Gàidheal and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta)
• Anna Massie – Black Isle Correspondent

12. Musician of the Year, sponsored by the University of the Highlands and Islands

• Tim Edey
• Peter Wood
• Anna Massie
• Jenn Butterworth
• Ailie Robertson
• John Carmichael