{"id":1025,"date":"2014-11-09T00:23:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2014-11-12T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:34:42","slug":"mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2014-the-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2014-the-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2014 – The Nominees!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2963_detail\"<\/a>The full shortlist for this year\u2019s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards<\/a> is below. Click on the links to read more about the nominees. Click here to vote<\/a>! To buy a ticket for the awards click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Album of the Year –\u00a0Sponsored by Birnam CD<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Live at Celtic Connections<\/a> (Duncan Chisholm)<\/p>\n

Heirs and Graces<\/a> (Adam Holmes)<\/p>\n

The Brightest Path<\/a> (Patsy Reid)<\/p>\n

Echoes<\/a> (Emily Smith)<\/p>\n

Club of the Year –\u00a0Sponsored by\u00a0Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (TRACS)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Tin Hut Sessions<\/a><\/p>\n

Acoustic Music Club<\/a><\/p>\n

Folk at the Salmon Bothy<\/a><\/p>\n

Coalburn Box\u00a0and Fiddle Club<\/a><\/p>\n

Community Project of the Year –\u00a0Sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Stirling Scots Song Project<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Song Relay<\/a><\/p>\n

Summer Isles Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

Inverness Gaelic Choir<\/a><\/p>\n

Composer of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by PRS for Music<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Tina Jordan Rees<\/a><\/p>\n

Jim Sutherland<\/a><\/p>\n

Findlay Napier<\/a><\/p>\n

Inge Thompson<\/a><\/p>\n

Gavin Marwick<\/a><\/p>\n

Event of the Year –\u00a0Sponsored by VisitScotland<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

GRIT: The Martyn Bennet Story<\/a><\/p>\n

Struileag – Children of the Smoke<\/a><\/p>\n

Boomerang<\/a><\/p>\n

Girvan Folk Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

Gaelic Singer of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by Macmeanmna<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Angus MacLeod<\/a><\/p>\n

Linda Macleod<\/a><\/p>\n

Mischa Macpherson<\/a><\/p>\n

Ewen Henderson<\/a><\/p>\n

Trad Music in the Media Award –\u00a0Sponsored by Skipinnish<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Hotchkiss Hotchpotch – Celtic Music Radio<\/a><\/p>\n

Folk Radio UK<\/a><\/p>\n

Isles FM<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Living Tradition Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Instrumentalist of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by\u00a0Royal Scottish Country Dance Society<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Catriona McKay<\/a><\/p>\n

Rachel Newton<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Vass<\/a><\/p>\n

James MacIntosh<\/a><\/p>\n

Ewan MacPherson<\/a><\/p>\n

Live Act of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by Greentrax<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Skipinnish<\/a><\/p>\n

Gavin Marwick\u2019s Journeyman Spectacular<\/a><\/p>\n

Skerryvore<\/a><\/p>\n

Peatbog Faeries<\/a><\/p>\n

Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Robyn Stapleton<\/a><\/p>\n

Emily Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

Ewan MacLennan<\/a><\/p>\n

Gerda Stevenson<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott Gardner<\/a><\/p>\n

Scottish Dance Band of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by the National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Jack Delaney Scottish Dance Band<\/a><\/p>\n

Da Fustra<\/a><\/p>\n

Matthew MacLennan Scottish Dance Band<\/a><\/p>\n

Burns Brothers Ceilidh Band<\/a><\/p>\n

Scottish Folk Band of the Year<\/b>\u00a0 –\u00a0Sponsored by\u00a0Threads of Sound<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Julie Fowlis<\/a><\/p>\n

Daimh<\/a><\/p>\n

Heidi Talbot\u00a0Band<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott Wood Band<\/a><\/p>\n

Pipe Band of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by The National Piping Centre<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band<\/p>\n

West Lothian Schools Pipe Band<\/a> <\/p>\n

Inverary and District Pipe Band<\/a><\/p>\n

Bleary and District Band<\/a><\/p>\n

Up and Coming Artist of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by<\/strong> Royal Conservatoire of Scotland<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Twelfth Day<\/a><\/p>\n

Cherrygrove<\/a><\/p>\n

The Elephant Sessions<\/a><\/p>\n

Dallahan<\/a><\/p>\n

Barluath<\/a><\/p>\n

Salt House<\/a><\/p>\n

Music Tutor of the Year<\/b> –\u00a0Sponsored by<\/strong> Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Douglas Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n

Hamish Napier<\/a><\/p>\n

Debbie Ross<\/a><\/p>\n

Eunice Henderson<\/a><\/p>\n

Venue of the Year Award<\/b><\/p>\n

Stirling Tolbooth<\/a><\/p>\n

Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ceilidh Place<\/a><\/p>\n

Perth Concert Hall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The full shortlist for this year\u2019s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards is below. Click on the links to read more about the nominees. Click here to vote! To buy a ticket for the awards click here. Album of the Year –\u00a0Sponsored by Birnam CD Live at Celtic Connections (Duncan Chisholm) Heirs and Graces (Adam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2014\/11\/2963_detail.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}