Hands up for Trad will be hosting the 6th ‘Scots Trad Music Awards’ weekend in Glasgow from the 5th - 6th December. 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.

Voting Timetable 2008

Nominations: 1st October - 17th October.
You can fill in a form online or download the document as a pdf or Word file.

Nominate your favourite band/venue/organisation of the year. All nominations will be taken to a nominations panel who will decide who goes through to the voting stage. The panels decision is final.

Voting 3rd November - 21st November.
You can fill in a form online or download the document as a pdf or Word file.

You vote for your favourite of the top 4 nominations in each category. The nomination with the most votes will the win the 2008 category.

2008 Awards (available for nominations)

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' Celtic 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

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.

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 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: BBC Radio Shetland, Birnam CD, Distil, Fèisean nan Gàidheal, Foot Stompin’ Celtic Music, Greentrax, Highland Council, Highland 2007, Living Tradition Magazine, Lochaber Enterprise, Macmeanmna, The Royal National Mod, National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Scottish Arts Council, Temple Records, The National Piping Centre, Traditional Music and Song Association, VisitScotland, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Northlink Ferries, Highland Spring, Atlantic Edge Music Services.