
{"id":5230,"date":"2022-11-07T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2022-11-06T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:51:51","slug":"mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2022-brighde-chaimbeul-ross-ainslie-steven-byrnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/mg-alba-scots-trad-music-awards-2022-brighde-chaimbeul-ross-ainslie-steven-byrnes\/","title":{"rendered":"MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2022: Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie &amp; Steven Byrnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013-300x212.png\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-5231\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013-24x17.png 24w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013-36x25.png 36w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013-48x34.png 48w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013-600x424.png 600w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013.png 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Congratulations to <strong>Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie &amp; Steven Byrnes<\/strong> who has been nominated in Album of the Year sponsored by Birnam CD in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/voting\/\">Vote for Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie &amp; Steven Byrnes now!<\/a>. It&#8217;s going to be another great night at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards on Sunday 4th December in Dundee&#8217;s Caird Hall. Why not join us for a brilliant night of music and awards. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/handsup.link\/tradawards2022\">Buy a ticket here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Ross of <strong>Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie &amp; Steven Byrnes<\/strong> the following questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about yourself<\/strong><br \/>\nBr\u00ecghde and Ross started working on music around 4 years ago focusing on double C Smallpipes. They are working alongside Steven Byrnes on bouzouki and guitar. The trio are playing a lot of material from all around the world and music that is not conventionally heard or played on the Scottish Smallpipes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are you involved in Scottish music?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#039;s the music we were brought up playing, it&#039;s the music we love!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any particular career highlights?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe are a very new band and with the pandemic etc we&#039;ve not gigged that much yet but we had a great gig at the Piping live festival this year back in August!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your plans for the future?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe hope top get out playing at festivals next year and working up some new material!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie &amp; Steven Byrnes Social Media<\/strong><br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"https:\/\/rossainslie.bandcamp.com\/album\/las\">https:\/\/rossainslie.bandcamp.com\/album\/las<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <strong>@rossainsliemusic<\/strong><br \/>\nTwitter: <strong>@rossainsliemus<\/strong><br \/>\nInstagram: <strong>@rossainsliepipes<\/strong><br \/>\nYouTube: <strong>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/rossainslie<\/strong><br \/>\nTikTok: <strong>@<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2022 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards are back to normal on the 4th December 2022! You will be able to watch it live in person (buy a ticket <a href=\"https:\/\/handsup.link\/tradawards2022\">here<\/a>),Watch it live in the UK at 9pm (GMT) on BBC ALBA and and around the world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/alba\">here<\/a>.  Bands performing on Sunday 4th December include Elephant Sessions, Fara, Trip, Eryn Rae Trio, The Auldeners, Gordon Shand Scottish Dance Band, Irish Minstrels, Tayside Young Fiddlers, and a James Alexander Tribute.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support Hands Up for Trad in their work with Scottish trad music and musicians why not become a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/supportus\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/supportus\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie &amp; Steven Byrnes who has been nominated in Album of the Year sponsored by Birnam CD in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2022. Vote for Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie &amp; Steven Byrnes now!. It&#8217;s going to be another great night at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5231,"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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nominee-2022","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_2013.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230","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=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotstradmusicawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}