{"id":11393,"date":"2026-11-02T07:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/?p=11393"},"modified":"2026-11-02T07:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:47:24","slug":"mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2026-keir-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2026-keir-long\/","title":{"rendered":"MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2026: Keir Long"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Congratulations to Keir Long<\/strong> who has \/ have been nominated in Production Award: Sound Engineer of the Year sponsored by Paul McGeechan in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2026. Vote for Keir Long now!<\/a><\/strong> It’s going to be another great night at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards on Saturday 5th December in Paisley Arena, Lagoon Centre. Why not join us for a brilliant night of music and awards. Buy a ticket here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We asked Keir of Keir Long<\/strong> the following questions.<\/p>\n

Tell us about yourself<\/strong>
\nI am a sound engineer that works consistently within the folk music industry!
\nI've worked with a fair few recognised musical acts and toured with a few over the years including Talisk, Kinnnaris Quintet, Gnoss, Niteworks, Megan Henderson, Breabach, Beth Malcolm, Brighde Chaimbeul, and more recently, Spodo Komodo.
\nIn early years, I worked with PA companies that were involved in the folk music scene and eventually worked my way up the ladder so I could work with some of the people named above.<\/p>\n

Any particular career highlights?<\/strong>
\nI have good memories of touring with all the folk I've worked with tbh but I spent a lot of time with both Breabach and Niteworks and there are too many times with those two groups of people in particular that have been amazing and stupidly funny.<\/p>\n

What are your plans for the future?<\/strong>
\nHopefully I'll still get asked along by people to work for them and see how long I can stay in the game!<\/p>\n

Keir Long Social Media<\/strong>
\nWebsite: <\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to music: http:\/\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2026 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards are on the 5th December 2026 in Paisley Arena, Lagoon Centre! You will be able to watch it live in person (buy a ticket here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Hosted by Scottish personalities Alistair Heather and Mary Ann Kennedy, the night will welcome live performances from some of the brightest lights on the thriving trad scene today including Valtos, Gnoss, Sian, F\u00e8is Ph\u00e0islig, Spodo Komodo and BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Rachel Groves and many more!<\/p>\n

If you would like to support Hands Up for Trad in their work with Scottish trad music and musicians why not become a friend of Hands Up for Trad<\/a><\/strong>. In addition to our high profile events like the Scots Trad Music Awards, we also deliver a less well known, education programme for young people from 8yrs right through to young adults at the start of their careers. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Keir Long who has \/ have been nominated in Production Award: Sound Engineer of the Year sponsored by Paul McGeechan in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2026. Vote for Keir Long now! It’s going to be another great night at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards on Saturday 5th December […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nominee-2026","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2026\/10\/Keir-Headshot.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393","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=11393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}