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Scots Trad Music Awards 2005

3557dc21fd0129c9ebdd8901c37aa78c8457f43eThe Scots Trad Music Awards 2005 were held at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall on December 3rd 2005. Performing on the night were:

Blazin’ Fiddles (Live Act of the Year 2004)
Maggie MacInnes Band (Gaelic Singer of the Year 2004)
Jim Malcolm (Songwriter of the Year 2004)
Plockton National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music
Kirkwall City Pipe Band (Scottish Pipe Band of the Year 2004)
Stuart Cassells (BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2005)
TMSA Young Trad Musicians (featuring all the finalists of the 2005 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award)
Anna Massie Band (BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2003)
The Occasionals

The nominees and winners were:

Album of the Year sponsored by Birnam CD
1. Luminosity – Back of the Moon
2. Magnificent Seven – Blazin’ Fiddles (winner)
3. Ordinary Angel – Compilation
4. Yont the Tay – Jim Reid

Club of the Year sponsored by Living Tradition Magazine
1. Campsie Accordion and Fiddle Club
2. Glenfarg Folk Club (winner)
3. Leith Folk Club
4. Stirling Folk Club

Community Project of the Year
1. Celtic Connections Education Programme
2. Glasgow Fiddle Workshop
3. Inverness Traditional Music Project
4. Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop (winner)

Composer of the Year sponsored by Distil
1. Charlie McKerron (winner)
2. Donald Shaw
3. Karine Polwart
4. Michael Marra

Event of the Year sponsored by VisitScotland
1. Auchtermuchty
2. Blas
3. Blazin’ in Beauly (winner)
4. Girvan Folk Festival

Gaelic Singer of the Year sponsored by Macmeanmna
1. Arthur Cormack
2. Fiona Mackenzie (Dingwall)
3. James Graham
4. Julie Fowlis (winner)

Services to Industry Award sponsored by Scottish Arts Council
1. Arthur Cormack
2. MusicScotland (winner)
3. Sound Sense
4. Stoneyport Agency

Instrumentalist of the Year sponsored by Temple Records
1. Aaron Jones (winner)
2. Aidan O’Rourke
3. Anna Massie
4. Finlay MacDonald

Live Act of the Year sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
1. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham
2. Fiddlers Bid
3. Old Blind Dogs
4. Peatbog Faeries (winner)

The McEwan’s Sessions Venue of the Year 2005
1. Hootananny, Inverness (winner)
2. ÒranMór, Glasgow
3. Sandy Bells, Edinburgh
4. The Drovers Inn, Inverarnan
5. The Lismore, Glasgow
6. The Lounge, Lerwick
7. The Mishnish, Tobermory
8. The Royal Oak, Edinburgh

Media Award
1. Aig Cridhe Ar Ciuil (At the Heart of our Music is Song) (winner)
2. Billy Anderson – Tay AM
3. Living Tradition Magazine
4. Travelling Folk

Scots Singer of the Year sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association
1. Alison McMorland
2. Emily Smith
3. Jim Malcolm
4. Jim Reid (winner)

Scottish Dance Band of the Year sponsored by National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs
1. Graham Geddes and his Scottish Dance Band
2. Gordon Shand and his Scottish Dance Band (winner)
3. Robert Whitehead and the Danelaw Scottish Dance Band
4. Skipinnish

Scottish Folk Band of the Year sponsored by Foot Stompin’ Records
1. Back of the Moon (winner)
2. Cliar
3. Daimh
4. Karine Polwart Band

Scottish Pipe Band of the Year sponsored by The National Piping Centre
1. George Watson’s School Pipe Band
2. House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band (winner)
3. Kintyre Schools Pipe Band
4. National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland

Up and Coming Artist of the Year sponsored by Wellington Consultancy
1. Darren Maclean
2. Gary Innes
3. Hamish Napier
4. Jenna Reid (winner)

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