Watch MG ALBA on TV. BBC Alba (Sky 168, Freesat 110) 8th December 2008 9pm. Repeated 9th December 10.30pm. Also catch in on the BBC iPlayer from the 9th December.
Tickets for Ceremony and Gala concert on 6th are sold out. We are running a FREE satellite party in parallel with the Ceremony in Laurie's Bar in King Street, Glasgow.
There will be a session with BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 2009 finalist Daniel Thorpe (starts at 8pm) and visits from the 2009 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Award Winners throughout the night. Compere Darren Maclean. Get there by 7pm (start of show) and receive a wee surprise.
There are still tickets for the Friday night ceilidh and the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards Festival Club. The festival club starts at 12 midnight in the Old Fruitmarket. Tickets cost £10 and are available from the box office (0141 353 8000).
Hands
up for Trad will be hosting the 6th MG ALBA 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.
In our 6th year we are in Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket. Friday 5th December will host a ceilidh with The Occasionals (doors open 9.30pm) and on the 6th December will host the Awards and Gala Concert. The acts booked the 6th December are Capercaillie, Karine Polwart Band, Session A9, Lau, St Rochs Ceilidh Band, The Cast, Breabach, Strathclyde Police Band, Jimmy Shand 100th birthday tribute.
In a very exciting development the new BBC Gaelic channel, BBC ALBA will be broadcasting the show on the 8th December and a winners concert is also being filmed for BBC 2 (due to go out between Christmas and New Year).
Voting
Timetable 2008
Voting
3rd November - 21st November.
Voting has now closed. The results will be posted online on the 6th December 2008.
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 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
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.
