{"id":1374,"date":"2015-02-23T17:03:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T17:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2015-02-23T17:46:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T17:46:54","slug":"mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"STMA(2011)_LOGO\"<\/a>The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards was held in Perth Concert Hall for a second year running on 3rd December 2011. The performers were\u00a0Peatbog Faeries, Skerryvore, Salsa Celtica, Paul McKenna Band, Barbara Dickson Band, Cathy Ann MacPhee, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, Joe Aitken\/Geordie Murison\/Scott Gardiner, Feis Rois 25th Anniversary, Kristan Harvey Band, National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and Move. Check out the photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The nominees and winners were:<\/p>\n

Album of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Birnam CD
\nManran – Manran (M\u00e0nran Records) (Winner)
\nSteele The Show \u2013 Songs From The Heart of Scotland – Various Artists (Greentrax)
\nAir Forladh (On Leave) \u2013 Gillebride MacMillan (Dealas)
\nHarlaw, Scotland 1411 (2CD set) \u2013 Bonnie Rideout (Tulloch Music, Ltd)<\/p>\n

Club of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
\nMilngavie Folk Club
\nLeith Folk Club (Winner)
\nInveraray and District Accordion and Fiddle Club
\nAcoustic Music Club Kirkcaldy<\/p>\n

Composer of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by PRS for Music
\nAidan O\u2019Rourke (Winner)
\nAnna Wendy Stevenson
\nAilie Robertson
\nCalum MacCrimmon<\/p>\n

Community Project of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 Sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust
\nPathhead Music Collective
\nTinto Summer School
\nBlazin In Beauly (Winner)
\nSCaT (Scottish Culture and Traditions)<\/p>\n

Event of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by VisitScotland
\nCullerlie Singing Weekend
\nHallaig
\nOrkney Folk Festival (Winner)
\nLinlithgow Folk Festival<\/p>\n

Gaelic Singer of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Macmeanmna
\nGillebride MacMillan
\nJoy Dunlop
\nNorrie MacIver (Winner)
\nMaeve Mackinnon<\/p>\n

Trad Music in the Media<\/strong> – Sponsored by ScottishCultureOnline.com
\nThe World Accordion To Phil (BBC2)
\nTransatlantic Sessions (Winner)
\n\u2018Caithream Ci\u00f9il\u2019 BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal
\nPiping Times<\/p>\n

Instrumentalist of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Temple Records
\nGordon Bruce
\nSandy Brechin
\nInnes Watson (Winner)
\nMatheu Watson<\/p>\n

Live Act of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Greentrax Recordings
\nUnusual Suspects
\nBlazin\u2019 Fiddles
\nSkerryvore (Winner)
\nEmily Smith and Band<\/p>\n

Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 Sponsored by Traditional Music & Song Association.
\nBarbara Dymock
\nBrian McNeill
\nShona Donaldson
\nSiobhan Miller (Winner)<\/p>\n

Scottish Dance Band of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by National Associaton of Accordion & Fiddle Clubs
\nIain Anderson Dance Band
\nNeil Hardie Scottish Dance Band
\nRobert Nairn Highland Band (Winner)
\nIain MacPhail Scottish Dance Band<\/p>\n

Scottish Folk Band of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by All Celtic Music
\nRachel Hair Trio
\nPaul McKenna Band
\nFribo
\nBattlefield Band (Winner)<\/p>\n

Scottish Pipe Band of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by National Piping Centre
\nField Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band (Winner)
\nGeorge Watson\u2019s College Pipe & Drums
\nBoghall and Bathgate
\nPipes & Drums 1st Battalion Scots Guards<\/p>\n

Up and Coming Artist of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Royal Conservatoire
\nRura (Winner)
\nRoss Couper and Tom Oakes
\nKristan Harvey
\nYuptie<\/p>\n

Music Tutor of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative
\nDouglas Montgomery
\nMike Vass
\nMairi Campbell (Winner)
\nDavid Ross<\/p>\n

Coda Music Venue of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 Sponsored by Coda Music
\nBogbain Farm, Inverness
\nEastgate Theatre, Peebles
\nPerth Concert Hall
\nThe Ben Nevis, Glasgow (Winner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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