It was a triumph for traditional music tonight (Saturday 3rd December), as Hands Up for Trad<\/b> celebrated the 14th year of the prestigious MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards<\/b> with a glittering ceremony held in the Caird Hall, Dundee. Full list of winners below. <\/p>\n
Broadcast live on BBC ALBA, BBC Radio Scotland and globally through the BBC ALBA website, the distinguished awards saw stars of the Scottish music scene take to Dundee\u2019s Caird Hall, for the second year in a row, to celebrate and honour the very best of traditional talent. With performances from The Scott Wood Band, Mohsen Amini, Dallahan and many more, the event further showed why it\u2019s hailed as one of the biggest events in Scotland\u2019s cultural calendar.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s notable winners include Breabach<\/b>, who scooped both the coveted Album of the Year award, sponsored by Birnam CD, for their fifth studio album \u2018Astar\u2019, and \u2018Folk Band of the Year\u2019 sponsored by Threads of Sound. The band have certainly clocked up the air miles this year, as they travelled to Germany, Italy, Canada and around the UK promoting the album, which has received impressive reviews. <\/p>\n
Piping Live! Glasgow\u2019s International Piping Festival<\/b> scooped the Event of the Year award, after it brought over 40,000 people from around the world to Scotland for a week-long celebration of traditional music in August.<\/p>\n
Other winners on the night included songstress, Ellen MacDonald<\/b>, who beat off tough competition from Callum Ross, Joy Dunlop and Kaela Rowan to clinch the Gaelic Singer of the Year award. Ellen has amassed a huge following for her solo performances as well as her role as the frontwoman of Gaelic band D\u00e0imh, who won Scottish Folk Band of the Year at the 2015 awards.<\/p>\n
Greentrax Recording\u2019s Live Act of the Year went to trad heavyweights, Skerryvore<\/b>, off the back of their Decade celebrations and a string of sell-out shows. The band have recently returned from a tour of the US and Europe and are set to close the year with a number of performances around the UK. <\/p>\n
Pipe Band of the Year, sponsored by The Glenturret Single Malt Whisky, went to North Lanarkshire Schools Pipe Band<\/b>, crowned the Novice A winners at this year\u2019s World Pipe Band championships held in Glasgow Green, beating ten other bands in front of 35,000 fans.<\/p>\n
Simon Thoumire, Event Founder and Hands Up for Trad Creative Director, said<\/b>: \u201cTonight was, once again, a celebration of the best traditional music talent in and around Scotland. I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who voted and congratulations to all involved in tonight\u2019s ceremony. Tonight showed it\u2019s an exciting time for the Scottish traditional music scene, with a wealth of artists and performers, old and new, being honoured this evening.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cWe would also like to thank the Caird Hall for being such fantastic hosts, Dundee City Council for their overwhelming support over the past two years and MG ALBA for their ongoing contribution to the awards and allowing the whole world to tune in and experience the evening with us \u2013 we can\u2019t thank you enough for your continued support.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cThe exciting news for 2017, we\u2019re delighted to announce that the 2017 Scots Trad Music Awards will be hosted by Paisley, currently bidding for the UK City of Culture title in 2021, home of The Spree, and the birth place of some of Scotland\u2019s finest musical talent.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
The unmissable evening saw performances from some of the biggest names in Scottish traditional music, including The Scott Wood Band, Songs of Separation, Tryst, Mohsen Amini – who was crowned BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Young Traditional Musician 2016 \u2013 and international folk band, Dallahan, before the night was concluded by a brilliant ceilidh.<\/p>\n
Iseabail Mactaggart, MG ALBA\u2019s Director of Strategy and Partnership, said<\/b>: \u201cTonight\u2019s winners demonstrate the extraordinary richness of the Scottish Trad scene, and we are proud at MG ALBA to enable that to be celebrated, and through BBC ALBA for this talent to be showcased here in Scotland and across the world.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Stuart Fleming, Senior Manager of event sponsors PRS for Music of PRS for Music, said<\/b>: \u201cWe\u2019d like to congratulate all the PRS members who\u2019ve been honoured tonight in Dundee, and in particular Kris Drever who won our Composer of the Year Award. Once again, the MG Alba Trad Awards have showcased the exceptional and diverse range of musical talent in Scotland\u201d<\/p>\n
Alan Morrison, Head of Music at Creative Scotland, said<\/b>: \u201cCongratulations to all of tonight\u2019s winners, and to a superb set of nominees as well. Across every category there\u2019s living proof that Scotland\u2019s long-standing traditions are being taken forward by world-class talent \u2013 no more so than by Breabach, whose double whammy of wins puts them at the top of their game on the stage and in the studio. A special round of applause too for Jim Hunter, our new Creative Scotland Youth Music Initiative-sponsored Tutor of the Year, for dedicating more than 25 years to music education.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information, quotes, interviews and images, contact Wire Media: Gillian Lamont | gillian@wire-media.co.uk | 07738 271 568 | 0141 648 9610<\/b><\/p>\n
The full winners list for this year\u2019s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards:
\nAlbum of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by Birnam CD<\/b> – Astar by Breabach<\/p>\n
Club of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland<\/b> – Stonehaven Folk Club<\/p>\n
Composer of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by PRS for Music<\/b> – Kris Drever<\/p>\n
Community Project of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust<\/b> – Feis Rois Life Long Learning Project<\/p>\n
Event of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by VisitScotland – Piping Live!<\/b> Glasgow International Piping Festival<\/p>\n
Gaelic Singer of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by Macmeanmna<\/b> – Ellen MacDonald<\/p>\n
Instrumentalist of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society<\/b> – Rachel Newton<\/p>\n
Live Act of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by Greentrax Recordings<\/b> – Skerryvore<\/p>\n
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by the Traditional Music & Song Association of Scotland<\/b> – Lori Watson<\/p>\n
Scottish Dance Band of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by the National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs<\/b> – Trail West<\/p>\n
Folk Band of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by Threads of Sound<\/b> – Breabach<\/p>\n
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by The Glenturret Single Malt Whisky<\/b> – North Lanarkshire Schools Pipe Band<\/p>\n
Trad Music in the Media \u2013 Sponsored by Skipinnish<\/b> – BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Take the Floor<\/p>\n
Music Tutor of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by Creative Scotland Youth Music Initiative<\/b> – Jim Hunter<\/p>\n
Up and Coming Artist of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland<\/b> – Ryan Young<\/p>\n
Venue of the Year \u2013 Sponsored by the Musicians\u2019 Union<\/b> – The Glad Caf\u00e9, Glasgow
\nEDITOR\u2019S NOTES<\/b><\/p>\n
The Scots Trad Music Awards are produced by Hands up for Trad and supported by:<\/p>\n
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T\u00c0LANT NA TRADS AIR AN COMHARRACHADH ANN AN D\u00d9N D\u00c8<\/b><\/p>\n
WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR MG ALBA SCOTS TRAD MUSIC AWARDS 2016
\n\u2019S e oidhche air leth a bh\u2019ann do che\u00f2l traidiseanta na h-Alba. A nochd (Disathairne, 3mh latha den D\u00f9bhlachd) bha Hands Up for Trad a\u2019 comharrachadh ceithir bliadhn\u2019 deug de dhuaisean MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards le glitz gu le\u00f2r anns a Chaird Hall, D\u00f9n D\u00e8. Ch\u00ec sibh co bhuannaich na duaisean gu h-\u00ecosal.
\nAir a chraoladh be\u00f2 air BBC Alba, BBC Radio Scotland agus air feadh an t-saoghal tro l\u00e0rach-l\u00ecn BBC Alba, chunnaic na duaisean s\u00f2nraichte seo runnagan che\u00f2l tradiseanta na h-Alba c\u00f2mhladh ann an aon \u00e0ite. Airson an d\u00e0rna bliadhna, \u2019s ann sa Chaird Hall an D\u00f9n D\u00e8 a chaidh an t\u00e0lant \u00e0s fh\u00e8arr a tha an Alba a chomharrachadh. Chuala sinn cuideachd an Scott Wood Band, Mohsen Amini, Dallahan agus gu le\u00f2r eile. Bha e foilleasach fhaicinn carson a tha daoine a dh\u00e8anamh fiughair ris Na Trads gach bliadhna.
\nFhuair Breabach, an duais aithnichte \u2018Cl\u00e0r na Bliadhna,\u2019 air a chuir air bonn le Birnam CD, leis a\u2019 ch\u00f2igeamh cl\u00e0r aca \u2018Astar\u2019, agus \u2018C\u00f2mhlan na Bliadhna\u2019 a bharrachd, air a chuir air bonn le Threads of Sound. Tha iad air a bhith air deagh astar cuideachd! Am bliadhna chithear iad anns a Ghearmailt, san Eadailt, an Canada agus air feadh Bhreatann a\u2019 sanasachd an cl\u00e0r \u00f9r, a tha air deagh mholaidhean fhaidhinn anns na meadhannan.
\nBhuannaich Piping Live! Glasgow\u2019s International Piping Festival an duais airson \u2018Tachartas na Bliadhna\u2019. Tha an fh\u00e8is sgoinneil a tha seo a\u2019 tarraing 40,000 duine dh\u2019Alba airson seachduin l\u00e0n ce\u00f2l tradiseanta anns an L\u00f9nastal.
\nBha ceathrar de f\u00ecor dheagh sheinneadairean againn airson \u2018Seinneadair G\u00e0idhlig na Bliadhna agus b\u2019 e Ellen NicDh\u00f2mhnaill a bhuannaich. Tha Ellen air a bhith trang a\u2019 s\u00e8inn air feadh na d\u00f9thcha agus tha i cuideachd anns a ch\u00f2mhlan D\u00e0imh, a bhuannaich \u2018C\u00f2mhlan Albanach na Bliadhna\u2019 aig Na Trads 2015.<\/p>\n
Chuir Greentrax Recording air bonn an ath dhuais a chomharraich Skerryvore, nan c\u00f2mhlan b\u00e8o a b\u2019fhearr anns a bhliadhna mu dheireadh. Tha iadsan trang, trang a cuir air d\u00f2igh f\u00e8ill an deich bliadhna agus a\u2019 deanamh cuireaman air feadh an \u00e0ite. Tha iad d\u00ecreach air tilleadh bho Americaidh agus \u00e0s an Roinn E\u00f2rpa agus tha iad air cuir cr\u00ecoch air a bhliadhna a\u2019 cluich ann an Breatann.
\nChaidh \u2018C\u00f2mhlan P\u00ecoba na Bliadhna\u2019, a th\u2019air a chuir air bonn le The Glenturret Single Malt Whisky, gu North Lanarkshire Schools Pipe Band, a tha a nis aig \u00ecre Foghlainne A. Fhuair iad an t-urram seo aig Farpais Ch\u00f2mhlan P\u00ecoba, Na Worlds an aghaidh 10 c\u00f2mhlan eile, air beulaibh 35,000 neach-amharc ann an Glaschu.<\/p>\n
Simon Thoumire, Event Founder and Hands Up for Trad Creative Director, said: \u201cTonight was, once again, a celebration of the best traditional music talent in and around Scotland. I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who voted and congratulations to all involved in tonight\u2019s ceremony. Tonight showed it\u2019s an exciting time for the Scottish traditional music scene, with a wealth of artists and performers, old and new, being honoured this evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would also like to thank the Caird Hall for being such fantastic hosts, Dundee City Council for their overwhelming support over the past two years and MG ALBA for their ongoing contribution to the awards and allowing the whole world to tune in and experience the evening with us \u2013 we can\u2019t thank you enough for your continued support.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe exciting news for 2017, we\u2019re delighted to announce that the 2017 Scots Trad Music Awards will be hosted by Paisley, currently bidding for the UK City of Culture title in 2021, home of The Spree, and the birth place of some of Scotland\u2019s finest musical talent.\u201d
\nThe unmissable evening saw performances from some of the biggest names in Scottish traditional music, including The Scott Wood Band, Songs of Separation, Tryst, Mohsen Amini – who was crowned BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Young Traditional Musician 2016 \u2013 and international folk band, Dallahan, before the night was concluded by a brilliant ceilidh.<\/p>\n
Iseabail Mactaggart, MG ALBA\u2019s Director of Strategy and Partnership, said: \u201cTonight\u2019s winners demonstrate the extraordinary richness of the Scottish Trad scene, and we are proud at MG ALBA to enable that to be celebrated, and through BBC ALBA for this talent to be showcased here in Scotland and across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stuart Fleming, Senior Manager of event sponsors PRS for Music of PRS for Music, said: \u201cWe\u2019d like to congratulate all the PRS members who\u2019ve been honoured tonight in Dundee, and in particular Kris Drever who won our Composer of the Year Award. Once again, the MG Alba Trad Awards have showcased the exceptional and diverse range of musical talent in Scotland\u201d<\/p>\n
Alan Morrison, Head of Music at Creative Scotland, said: \u201cCongratulations to all of tonight\u2019s winners, and to a superb set of nominees as well. Across every category there\u2019s living proof that Scotland\u2019s long-standing traditions are being taken forward by world-class talent \u2013 no more so than by Breabach, whose double whammy of wins puts them at the top of their game on the stage and in the studio. A special round of applause too for Jim Hunter, our new Creative Scotland Youth Music Initiative-sponsored Tutor of the Year, for dedicating more than 25 years to music education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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