Scots Trad Music Awards 2007
Thursday 29th November - Saturday 1st December, Fort William.
Come up for the whole weekend and make a holiday of it.
Hands up for Trad, in association with BBC
Scotland Interactive, will be hosting the fifth‘Scots
Trad Music Awards’ weekend in Fort William from the
29th November - Saturday 1st December 2007. 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 this our 5th year we are part of the exciting
Highland 2007,
a year long programme where hundreds of events and activities
are taking place celebrating Highland culture in villages,
towns and cities throughout the Highlands and Islands and
beyond. Why not come to Fort William for the weekend and
enjoy the full celebration? We have negotiated rates of
£60 per room (for two people) in the Alexandria Hotel
(tel: 01397 702241), and the Grand Hotel (tel: 01397 702928).
Please mention the Scots Trad Music Awards when calling
to get the rates. Alternatively you can also get accomodation
with VisitScotland.
29th November
Peatbog Faeries, Nevis Centre. Start time 8pm.
A concert by one of Scotland's best and most popular bands.
We wanted to invite the Peatbog Faeries back to Fort William
after their outstanding opening to lasts years Scots Trad
Music Awards. Tickets £8 (£6 conc)
30th November
St Andrew's Night Ceilidh, Nevis Centre. Start time 8pm
A ceilidh dance spectacular! We're celebrating St Andrew's
Day in style with 4 dance bands from all across the country.
Come along and dance the night away. Tickets £8 (£6
conc)
Trad Music Awards Late Night Club.
Start time 10.30pm
Stay out late and enjoy the atmosphere and sessions in our
late night club at the Alexandria Hotel. Tickets £2
1st December
Scots Trad Music Awards and Gala Concert, Nevis Centre.
Start time 7pm
The Awards, which give recognition to excellence within
Scotland's thriving musical culture, encompass all aspects
of traditional music from Gaelic Song, Folk, Scottish Dance
music, to Pipe Bands and a host of others in between. Acts
performing at the 2007 Scots Trad Music Awards Ceremony
will include Unusual Suspects, Shooglenifty, Red Hot Chillie
Pipers, Sylvia Barnes, Kathleen MacInness, Marian Anderson,
Kintyre Youth Pipe Band, Feis Rois, Catriona Watt, and the
Anna Massie Band. Our comperes this year are BBC Scotland's
Mary Ann Kennedy and Stuart Cassells.
Tickets for the Scots Trad Music Awards and
Gala Concert are £15 (raked seating). If you like
to buy a table - which seats 8 - costs £240 and includes
complementary wine.
Trad Music Awards Late Night Club.
Start time 10.30pm
Stay out late and enjoy the atmosphere and sessions in our
late night club at the Alexandria Hotel. Tickets £2
Look out for workshops and sessions on
throughout Saturday 1st daytime.
Tickets for the 3 day event will be available
from Monday 1st October. (Thursday 28th November is last
day for online sales. All sales after this will be from
the Nevis Centre)
There are 4 ways to buy tickets for this event:
Buy online
(through www.footstompin.com)
Call our box office on 0131 441 3135
Send a cheque to Hands Up for Trad at the address here
(please remember to add postage to cheque)
Visit the Nevis Centre,
Fort William tel 01397 700707.
There will be a £0.75 postage charge
applied to all sales so please remember and add this to
your cheque.
Voting Timetable 2007
Stage 1: Nominations 1st - 19th October.
Fill in the form online or download the document
as a pdf or Word file*.
Open to everyone. We would like you to pick
4 nominations from the field of Scottish traditional music
for each of the 16 categories listed in the Nominations
Form within the time frame October 2006 to October 2007.
You do not have to complete every category if you feel unqualified.
The results of Stage 1 of the nomination procedure
will be collated and reviewed by a panel and the top four
nominations in each category will go forward to the Stage
2 voting process, which will, as in previous years, be hosted
online by The BBC’s Celtic Roots website (www.bbc.co.uk/celticroots).
*You can only use the online form once per
computer so if you need more forms please download the pdf
or word file.
Stage
2: Voting 29th October - 23th November.
You can fill in a form online at BBC Scotland's Celtic Roots
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 2007 category.
2007 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
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
2007 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 sponsored by BBC Radio Shetland
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/
Check
out the weekend timetable
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 Scotland, BBC Radio
Shetland, Birnam CD, Foot Stompin’ Records, Greentrax,
Highland Council, Highland 2007, Living Tradition Magazine,
Lochaber Enterprise, Macmeanmna, McEwan’s Sessions,
National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs, Royal
Scottish Country Dance Society, Scottish Arts Council, Temple
Records, Traditional Music and Song Association, VisitScotland,
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
