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Scots Trad Music Awards 2005
Nominations page 2 of 3
 WINNERS
ANNOUNCED
Voting is open to everyone and we
would like you to make one choice for each of the 16 categories
below by ticking or circling 1 nominee in each category. You
do not have to complete every category if you feel unqualified.
You can also complete this form online at the BBC’s
Celtic Roots website (www.bbc.co.uk/celticroots).
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Gaelic Singer
of the Year sponsored by Macmeanmna
Award for artist singing in
Gaelic.
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Arthur
Cormack
Arthur Cormack is one of the finest
Gaelic singers of his generation. A Mod Gold Medal in
1992, he is founder member of the much-admired Gaelic
group Cliar. He has sung world-wide with fellow Skye musician
Blair Douglas and with the highly-acclaimed MacTalla.
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Fiona Mackenzie
(Dingwall)
Fiona was a popular winner of the 2005 Mod Gold
medal. Her Gaelic repertoire includes; classical and traditional
songs, pibroch and puirt-a-beul, all of which are unaccompanied.
She is one of the foremost Gaelic singers in the Highlands
of Scotland today, and was appointed to the post of Mairi
Mhor Gaelic Song Fellow in 2002. She works in education
in Dingwall and is particularly influential in her promotion
of Gaelic singing in schools in the Highlands.
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James Graham
James' captivating voice won him the
title BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2004.
He can sing not only love songs and airs so beloved of
Gaelic culture, but, because of his immaculate timing,
he can also sing for dancing - a very difficult skill
indeed!
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Julie
Fowlis (winner)
Julie's reputation as a singer was confirmed
when she was named Winner of the prestigious Pan-Celtic
Sean-Nos singing competition in 2004. She was nominated
for Best Gaelic Singer at the Scottish Traditional Music
Awards the same year as her band Dochas with whom she's
vocalist and piper won the Best Up and Coming Award. |
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Instrumentalist
of the Year sponsored by Temple
Records
Award for outstanding instrumentalist.
Can be any instrument.
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Aaron
Jones
(winner)
Aaron plays Bouzouki, Guitar and Vocals. He is a member
of the band Old Blind Dogs and the duo Claire Mann & Aaron
Jones and has toured worldwide with artists such as Craobh
Rua, Seelyhoo, The Sandy Brechin Band, Iron Horse, Keep
It Up, Burach, Tabache. He is not only an entertaining
and skillful stage performer but is also in great demand
for his sensitive work as an accompanist.
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Aidan
O’Rourke
Aidan is a dazzling fiddle player and composer from the
Isle of Seil. He has toured extensively in Europe and
North America from the age of 15 and has made his name
as one of Scotland¹s most expressive and dynamic
musicians.
Aidan now performs with the hugely successful Blazin¹
Fiddles and has an exciting new trio called Lau with Kris
Drever and Martin Green. He is much sought after as a
teacher, composer and session musician having performed
on over 50 albums. He is currently musician in residence
at the Tolbooth in Stirling and his own album ŒSirius¹
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Anna
Massie
Anna Massie was the winner of the BBC Radio Scotland Young
Traditional Musician of the Year 2003 Award. A talented
multi-instrumentalist, she excels in playing the fiddle,
mandolin and tenor banjo. Though perhaps most impressive
is her guitar playing - equally at home either accompanying
in her unique rhythmic style or flatpicking tunes, Massie’s
dexterity shines through.
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Finlay
MacDonald
Finlay is an exceptionally talented piper, whistler and
flautist and composer and has become the well-known face
of Glasgow's Piping Live! Festival. He fronts his own
band playing multi-faceted alloy of folk, rock, funk,
jazz and dancefloor energies and is a member of folk band
Deaf Shepherd and the exciting Unusual Suspects. |
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Live Act of the Year
sponsored by Royal Scottish
Country Dance Society
This is open to any traditional
music act touring in Scotland.
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Aly
Bain and Phil Cunningham
Aly and Phil are two of Scotland's most loved
and best known traditional musicians. Their pedigree goes
back many years and spans many horizons. Aly is regarded
as Scotland's supreme traditional-style fiddler arguably
the finest of all time, he helped to form Boys of the
Lough and has performed and recorded with the band ever
since. Aly was awarded the M.B.E. for his servces to music
in 1994. Phil is no less a memorable character, having
been named in The Scotsman as one of Scotland's 25 most
influential people. Trained classically in the accordian
and violin he later joined his brother John in the highly
acclaimed Scottish band Silly Wizard which became hugely
popular world-wide.
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Fiddlers
Bid
Fiddlers’ Bid are internationally
respected as leading exponents of their unique musical
heritage and rich fiddle tradition and are global ambassadors
for Shetland. A dynamic four fiddle front line joins with
a powerhouse of piano, bass, guitar and Scottish harp
to create a “display of stunning virtuosity”.Since
their formation in 1991, the "flying fiddles and
furious talent" of Fiddlers’ Bid have astounded
audiences all over the world with their expressive, high
energy music and performance. "Beware: Fiddlers’
Bid is infectious and habit-forming.
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Old
Blind Dogs
Over the years
Old Blind Dogs have evolved and grown into one of Scotland's
favourite folk bands. During this time they have recorded
8 great CDs. The line up since 2003 has been Jim Malcolm,
Johnny Hardie, Rory Campbell, Fraser Stone and Aaron
Jones. The band continued to tour extensively through
out and were rewarded for their efforts with the 'Band
of the Year' Award at the Scots Trad Music Awards in
the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. |
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Peatbog
Faeries
(winner)
Based on the Isle of Skye, The Peatbog Faeries
have released four albums and have played to audiences
all over the world. Recent highlights have been tours
in Australia and America as well as prominent festivals
and gigs around the UK and Europe. 2005 has seen the band
promoting their new album,"Croftwork" with some extensive
touring, including festivals such as Glastonbury, Cambridge
and Beautiful Days. |
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Media Award sponsored
by Greentrax
An award for radio and TV
programmes, magazines, and journalists who are getting
the word out through the media.
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Aig
Cridhe Ar Ciuil (At the Heart of our Music is Song)
A tri-media series about the Gaelic song tradition from
BBC Craoladh nan Gaidheal. The 8 part series - on BBC
2 Scotland, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal and (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba),
explored the place of song in the world of the Gael, &
the intrinsic link between song, language, landscape,
& people. Each week took a different theme, covering subjects
such as War, Humour, Love of homeland & Religion. The
series, narrated by Runrig’s Calum Macdonald and included
performances from Jenna Cumming, Mary Ann Kennedy, Margaret
MacLellan & Rachel Walker.
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Billy
Anderson – Tay AM
Billy Anderson is the presenter of
Sounds Scottish which contains 2 hours of Scotlands Music
and Song, and a regular update of Scottish entertainment
throughout Tayside and North East Fife. Similiar to 'Travelling
Folk', Billy has presented Sounds Scottish for 23 years.
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Living
Tradition Magazine
The Living Tradition is a bi-monthly Folk & Traditional
music magazine that has been in publication for over 10
years now. The main aim of the magazine is to highlight
the rich heritage of traditional music in the British
Isles and further afield, and attempt to bring it to a
wider audience.
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Travelling
Folk
Archie Fisher presents the best from the world of folk
and traditional music, featuring the cream of the new
releases and gig highlights from around Scotland. Now
in its 25th year, Travelling Folk presents a rich and
varied mixture of music, from Shetland fiddle to bluegrass
mandolin, and Borders ballads to Gaelic mouth music. |
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Scots Singer
of the Year sponsored by Traditional
Music and Song Association
Award for artist singing
in Scots.
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Alison
McMorland
Born in Renfrewshire, Scotland of Ayrshire/Irish
stock, her family was highly musical. She lived in Cornwall
and then for many years in Yorkshire where exploring the
folk cultures of these locales helped sharpen and define
her Scottish identity. Her active work in the traditional
and related arts has been extensive, innovative and significant,
embracing radio and television broadcasting, theatre,
publishing, numerous recordings, field collecting and
community arts.
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Emily
Smith
Dumfriesshire born singer Emily Smith
first made her mark on the Scottish music scene when she
won the 2002 BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Scottish
Traditional Musician of the Year Award. In the same year
she formed her own band and has since toured throughout
Europe and Australasia. During this time she developed
her skills on piano and accordion and established her
own singing style drawing on the many sources available
to her. As well as performing with her band Emily has
worked with performers such as John McCusker, Karine Polwart
and Irish band North Cregg. She has also been included
in the acclaimed ‘Scottish Women’ group featuring
Scotland’s top female vocalists and is a member
of Scotland’s ‘folk orchestra’ - The
Unusual Suspects. Emily’s debut CD ‘A Day
Like Today’ was released in 2002 on Edinburgh based
Footstompin’ Records. Her long awaited second album
‘A Different Life’ was released on White Fall
Records in January 2005.
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Jim
Malcolm
Jim Malcolm, lead singer with the much-travelled group
Old Blind Dogs, was brought up in Perthshire and Angus
and, by his early twenties, was winning songwriting competitions
and playing in folk clubs all over Scotland. He has recorded
four solo albums and undertaken several tours in the North
America and Europe. His songs have been recorded by other
artists and Neptune, from the CD "Sconeword",
featured on an award-winning documentary about a North
Sea oil spill.
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Jim
Reid
(winner)
Jim Reid is a world famous Angus folksinger
songwriter whose music evokes the romance and humour of
the North East of Scotland. He is without a doubt an outstanding
singer and songwriter, and as a lover of the work of poet
Violet Jacob, has set many of her poems to music, including
the hugely successful Wild Geese (or Norland Wind), which
has now become one of the classic folk songs of the twentieth
century. Jim was a founder member of the legendary Foundry
Bar Band, after an apprenticeship in various Scottish
groups including The Taysiders. His interest in the travelling
folk is well known and he had a very special relationship
with the late Belle and Alex Stewart of Blairgowrie.
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