{"id":1382,"date":"2015-02-23T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2015-02-23T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T17:48:04","slug":"mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shooglenifty<\/a>The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2014 were held in Inverness Leisure Centre on 13th December. It was our first time in Inverness and it was a great success. The performers were\u00a0Shooglenifty,\u00a0Fiddlers Bid,\u00a0Rura,\u00a0Robyn Stapleton,\u00a0Na h-\u00d2ganaich,\u00a0Ce\u00f2l nam F\u00e8is,\u00a0St Roch\u2019s Senior Ceili Band,\u00a0Stuart Liddell,\u00a0Cruinn,\u00a0Adam Sutherland Bandand\u00a0Steele the Show. Check out the photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The nominations<\/a> and winners were: (Read the press release<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Album of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Birnam CD<\/p>\n

Live at Celtic Connections (Duncan Chisholm) (Winner)
\nHeirs and Graces (Adam Holmes)
\nThe Brightest Path (Patsy Reid)
\nEchoes (Emily Smith)<\/p>\n

Club of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (TRACS)<\/p>\n

Tin Hut Sessions (Winner)
\nAcoustic Music Club
\nFolk at the Salmon Bothy
\nCoalburn Box and Fiddle Club<\/p>\n

Community Project of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust<\/p>\n

Stirling Scots Song Project
\nBig Song Relay
\nSummer Isles Festival (Winner)
\nInverness Gaelic Choir<\/p>\n

Composer of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by PRS for Music<\/p>\n

Tina Jordan Rees
\nJim Sutherland (Winner)
\nFindlay Napier
\nInge Thompson
\nGavin Marwick<\/p>\n

Event of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by VisitScotland<\/p>\n

GRIT: The Martyn Bennet Story (Winner)
\nStruileag \u2013 Children of the Smoke
\nBoomerang
\nGirvan Folk Festival<\/p>\n

Gaelic Singer of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Macmeanmna<\/p>\n

Angus MacLeod
\nLinda Macleod
\nMischa Macpherson (Winner)
\nEwen Henderson<\/p>\n

Trad Music in the Media Award<\/strong> – Sponsored by<\/p>\n

Hotchkiss Hotchpotch \u2013 Celtic Music Radio
\nFolk Radio UK
\nIsles FM (Winner)
\nThe Living Tradition Magazine<\/p>\n

Instrumentalist of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Temple Records<\/p>\n

Catriona McKay (Winner)
\nRachel Newton
\nMike Vass
\nJames MacIntosh
\nEwan MacPherson<\/p>\n

Live Act of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Greentrax<\/p>\n

Skipinnish (Winner)
\nGavin Marwick\u2019s Journeyman Spectacular
\nSkerryvore
\nPeatbog Faeries<\/p>\n

Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association<\/p>\n

Robyn Stapleton
\nEmily Smith (Winner)
\nEwan MacLennan
\nGerda Stevenson
\nScott Gardner<\/p>\n

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

Jack Delaney Scottish Dance Band
\nDa Fustra (Winner)
\nMatthew MacLennan Scottish Dance Band
\nBurns Brothers Ceilidh Band<\/p>\n

Scottish Folk Band of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by Threads of Sound<\/p>\n

Julie Fowlis (Winner)
\nDaimh
\nHeidi Talbot Band
\nScott Wood Band<\/p>\n

Pipe Band of the Year<\/strong> – Sponsored by The National Piping Centre<\/p>\n

Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band
\nWest Lothian Schools Pipe Band (Winner)
\nInverary and District Pipe Band
\nBleary and District Band<\/p>\n

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

Twelfth Day
\nCherrygrove
\nThe Elephant Sessions (Winner)
\nDallahan
\nBarluath
\nSalt House<\/p>\n

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

Douglas Montgomery (Winner)
\nHamish Napier
\nDebbie Ross
\nEunice Henderson<\/p>\n

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

Stirling Tolbooth
\nQueen\u2019s Hall, Edinburgh
\nThe Ceilidh Place (Winner)
\nPerth Concert Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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