Scots Trad Music Awards

2006 Results

Louis Decarlo photographs from the event. Pete Heywood (Living Tradition) photos.

Check out the 2006 nominations (page 1, 2, 3, 4). Voting now closed.

Scots Trad Music Awards 2006
Friday 1st December - Sunday 3rd 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 fourth ‘Scots Trad Music Awards’ weekend in Fort William from the 1st - 3rd December, 2006. 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 4th year we have decided to extract the festival from the Central Belt, extend it from one night into a weekend event, and take it up to the Highlands for the next 2 years. This is a very exciting move for us. In the second of these years (2007) the Scots Trad Music Awards will be part of the exciting Highland 2007 Year of Culture.

Tickets for the Saturday night Scots Trad Music Awards Ceremony and Gala Concert on 2nd December are now available. Thursday 30th November is last day for online sales. Any tickets will be available from the Nevis Centre tel 01397 700707.

Buy online (through www.footstompin.com)
Call our box office on 0131 441 3135
or Send a cheque to Hands Up for Trad at the address here.

Tickets are for the raked seating in the hall and cost £15 per ticket. There will be a £0.75 postage charge applied to all sales so please remember and add this to your cheque.

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), Ben Nevis Hotel (tel: 01397 702331) 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 in touch with VisitScotland.

Stage 2: Voting 1st - 24th November. You can fill in a form online at BBC Scotland's Celtic Roots or download the document as a pdf or Word file. Check out the 2006 nominations (page 1, 2, 3, 4).
VOTING CLOSED.

Stage 1: Nominations 2nd - 20th October.
Open to everyone. We would like you to pick 4 nominations from the field of Scottish traditional music for each of the 15 categories listed in the Nominations Form within the time frame October 2005 to October 2006. 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 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). Fill in a form online or download the document as a pdf or Word file. You can only use the online form once per computer so if you need more forms please download the pdf or word file.

Album of the Year sponsored by Birnam CD
Club of the Year sponsored by Living Tradition Magazine
Community Project of the Year Scottish Power
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
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' Records
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year
Up and Coming Artist of the Year sponsored by Wellington Consultancy
Strathspey and Reel Society of the Year sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
The McEwan’s Sessions Venue of the Year Award 2006

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.

Acts playing at the 2006 Scots Trad Music Awards Ceremony will include Peatbog Faeries, Julie Fowlis, Jim Reid, Tribute to Gordon Duncan, Shona Mooney Band, Feis Lochaber, Ceol Mor, Gordon Shand Scottish Dance Band and Lori Watson 3. Our comperes this year are BBC Scotland's Mary Ann Kennedy and Stuart Cassells.

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.

Please support all our sponsors - without them this event would not happen: Aberdeen International Youth Festival, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio Shetland, Birnam CD, Fionnar, First ScotRail, 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, Wellington Consultancy.