Scots Trad Music Awards

Buy Tickets for the Saturday night Award Ceremony and Gala Concert (28th November). You can also call DG One on 01387 243 550

Hands up for Trad will be hosting the 7th MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards weekend in Dumfries from the 27 - 29th November 2009. The aim of these Awards is to highlight Scotland's wonderful traditional music in all its forms and to create a high profile opportunity which will bring the music and music industry into the spotlight of media & public attention. Thank you to all our sponsors without whom this event would not go ahead. Please support them.

In our 7th and Scotland's Homecoming year we are in Dumfries's DG One venue. The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards will be part of the final weekend of the Homecoming and for the first time we will be programming a Sunday night concert to celebrate the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. It is great to be in the land of Robert Burns. Acts booked so far for the Saturday night Awards ceremony and Gala Concert are:

The Treacherous Orchestra
Phil Cunningham and John McCusker
Emily Smith Band
Scottish Power Pipe Band
Norrie MacIver and Ruari Sutherland with Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson
Ruairidh MacMillian (2009 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award winner)
Koda
Lori Watson + more to be announced.

We are only selling tickets for the Saturday evening at the moment (28th November) but there will be a dance on the Friday (27th) and a Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame concert on the Sunday evening (29th) with other events on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons (all in Dumfries). Tickets for the other events will go sale for these events in the next 2 months.

2008 Awards (available for voting)

Album of the Year sponsored by Birnam CD
Club of the Year sponsored by Living Tradition Magazine
Community Project of the Year sponsored by BBC Radio Shetland
Composer of the Year sponsored by Distil
Event of the Year sponsored by VisitScotland
Gaelic Singer of the Year sponsored by Macmeanmna
Services to Industry Award sponsored by Scottish Arts Council
Instrumentalist of the Year sponsored by Temple Records
Live Act of the Year sponsored by Greentrax Recordings
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association
Scottish Dance Band of the Year sponsored by National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs
Scottish Folk Band of the Year sponsored by Foot Stompin' Scottish Music
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year sponsored by The National Piping Centre
Up and Coming Artist of the Year sponsored by Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Strathspey and Reel Society of the Year sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Venue of the Year Award sponsored by Navigator Records

2008 Special Awards (not for voting)

Scots Traditional Music Hall of Fame sponsored by Fèisean nan Gàidheal

Performers
Awarded to musicians who have been in the industry over 30 years who have altered our musical landscape for the better including musicians, now no longer with us. The Battlefield Band's Alasdair White will write a tune for the international inductee to the Hall of Fame.

Hamish Henderson Services to Traditional Music Award
This award was introduced in 2003 to celebrate those special people whom Scottish traditional music couldn't do without. It was posthumously awarded to Hamish Henderson and thereafter known as "The Hamish Henderson Services to Traditional Music Award." In 2005 when the Hall of Fame was born we decided to bring the two awards together and insert recipients of both into the Hall of Fame.

Services to Gaelic Music sponsored by Bòrd na Gàidhlig
We are honouring Capercaillie this year with a one off award. Over the last 20 years the band has toured the world with Gaelic language and music at the forefront of their career. The band are also performing at the ceremony.

We have a dedicated website to the special awards. You can find it at http://www.tradmusichall.com/

Read about the Scots Trad Music Awards 2008
Read about the Scots Trad Music Awards 2007
Read about the Scots Trad Music Awards 2006
Read about the Scots Trad Music Awards 2005
Read about the Scots Trad Music Awards 2004
Read about the Scots Trad Music Awards 2003

Please support all our sponsors - without them this event would not happen: MG Alba, Scottish Arts Council, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, BBC Scotland, Birnam CD, Fèisean nan Gàidheal, Foot Stompin’ Scottish Music, Greentrax, Living Tradition Magazine, Macmeanmna, Navigator Records, National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Temple Records, The National Piping Centre, Traditional Music and Song Association, VisitScotland, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.