{"id":4891,"date":"2021-11-02T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:12:44","slug":"mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2021-blazin-fiddles-with-scottish-folk-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2021-blazin-fiddles-with-scottish-folk-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2021: Blazin Fiddles with Scottish folk orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-4892\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2021\/11\/doddies-dream-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2021\/11\/doddies-dream-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2021\/11\/doddies-dream-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2021\/11\/doddies-dream-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2021\/11\/doddies-dream-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2021\/11\/doddies-dream-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2021\/11\/doddies-dream-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Congratulations to Blazin Fiddles with Scottish folk orchestra who have been nominated in Trad Video of the Year sponsored by Threads of Sound in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.co.uk\/r\/Tradsvoting2021\">Vote now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We asked Bruce MacGregor of Blazin Fiddles with Scottish folk orchestra the following questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about yourself<\/strong><br \/>\nBlazin Fiddles collaboration with some of the best folk musicians in the world to help raise awareness and funds for Doddie Weir&#8217;s charity &#8216;My Name5 Doddie&#8217; in an effort to find a cure to MND. Featuring Nicola Benedetti, Jerry Douglas, Julie Fowlis, Phil Cunningham, Aly Bain, Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas, Sharon Shannon, Breabach, Gary Innes, Saltfishforty, Ali levack, Ross Ainslie, Iain MacFarlane, Ingrid Henderson, Allan Henderson, Paul Anderson, Skerryvore. The video was created by former Scottish rugby player and team mate of Weir, Stewart Campbell and produced by Jason Clarke.<br \/>\nThe single hit number 9 in the UK charts<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Doddie&#039;s Dream\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DCNP2oaTh6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are you involved in Scottish music?<\/strong><br \/>\nTo bring Scottish music and culture to the world<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any particular career highlights?<\/strong><br \/>\nSurviving<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your plans for the future?<\/strong><br \/>\nsee above<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myname5doddie.co.uk\/\">Blazin Fiddles with Scottish folk orchestra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blazin Fiddles with Scottish folk orchestra Social Media<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myname5doddie.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.myname5doddie.co.uk\/<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BlazinFiddles\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BlazinFiddles<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlazinFiddles\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BlazinFiddles<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/DCNP2oaTh6U: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DCNP2oaTh6U\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/: <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately due to Covid there are no tickets for sale to the 2021 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. You will be able to watch it live in the UK at 7pm (GMT) on BBC ALBA and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/alba\">here<\/a>. Bands performing on Saturday 4th December include D\u00e0imh, \u00ccmar, Hannah Rarity, Strathspey Day Band and more to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support Hands Up for Trad in their work with Scottish trad music and musicians please consider supporting our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/handsupfortrad\">Patreon<\/a> campaign. We have 3 tiers starting at $1 a month and everything helps support us in our work. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/handsupfortrad\">www.patreon.com\/handsupfortrad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Blazin Fiddles with Scottish folk orchestra who have been nominated in Trad Video of the Year sponsored by Threads of Sound in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2021. Vote now! We asked Bruce MacGregor of Blazin Fiddles with Scottish folk orchestra the following questions. Tell us about yourself Blazin Fiddles collaboration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4892,"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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nominee-2021","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2021\/11\/doddies-dream-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","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=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}