Composer, fiddle player and folk musician Duncan Chisholm was the biggest winner at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards this year, taking home two prizes.
He received the Composer of the Year Award, sponsored by PRS for Music, while his latest LP, Sandwood, won Album of the Year.
Elsewhere, the Live Act of the Year Award went to Elepahant sessions and the Up and Coming Artist accolade was won by Assynt, while Gaelic group Daimh took home the Scottish Folk Band of the Year Award.
The Belhaven Bursary for Innovation in Scottish Music, presented in association with Showcase Scotland Expo, went to Talisk.
Produced by Hands Up for Trad, the ceremony took place in Perth and was broadcast live on BBC ALBA and BBC Radio Scotland.
Hands Up for Trad’s creative director Simon Thoumire said: ‘What another great year of Scottish trad music! There is so much vitality in the scene right now and it is only getting stronger. Roll on 2019.’
Full list of winners:
Belhaven Bursary for Innovation in Scottish Music
Talisk
Album of the Year
Sandwood by Duncan Chisholm
Club of the Year
Partick Folk Club
Composer of the Year
Duncan Chisholm
Community Project of the Year
Care for a Ceilidh
Event of the Year
Far Far from Ypres
Gaelic Singer of the Year
Eilidh Cormack
Instrumentalist of the Year
Calum Stewart
Live Act of the Year
Elephant Sessions
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year
Iona Fyfe
Scottish Dance Band of the Year
Susan MacFadyen
Scottish Folk Band of the Year
Dàimh
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year
Inverary and District Pipe Band
Trad Music in the Media
Pipeline, BBC Radio Scotland
Music Tutor of the Year
Anna Wendy Stevenson
Up and Coming Artist of the Year
Assynt
Venue of the Year Award
Drygate Brewery, Glasgow
Services to Gaelic
Runrig
The Hamish Henderson Services to Traditional Music Award
Pete Shepheard
Services to Scots Language
Janet Paisley
He received the Composer of the Year Award, sponsored by PRS for Music, while his latest LP, Sandwood, won Album of the Year.
Elsewhere, the Live Act of the Year Award went to Elepahant sessions and the Up and Coming Artist accolade was won by Assynt, while Gaelic group Daimh took home the Scottish Folk Band of the Year Award.
The Belhaven Bursary for Innovation in Scottish Music, presented in association with Showcase Scotland Expo, went to Talisk.
Produced by Hands Up for Trad, the ceremony took place in Perth and was broadcast live on BBC ALBA and BBC Radio Scotland.
Hands Up for Trad’s creative director Simon Thoumire said: ‘What another great year of Scottish trad music! There is so much vitality in the scene right now and it is only getting stronger. Roll on 2019.’
Full list of winners:
Belhaven Bursary for Innovation in Scottish Music
Talisk
Album of the Year
Sandwood by Duncan Chisholm
Club of the Year
Partick Folk Club
Composer of the Year
Duncan Chisholm
Community Project of the Year
Care for a Ceilidh
Event of the Year
Far Far from Ypres
Gaelic Singer of the Year
Eilidh Cormack
Instrumentalist of the Year
Calum Stewart
Live Act of the Year
Elephant Sessions
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year
Iona Fyfe
Scottish Dance Band of the Year
Susan MacFadyen
Scottish Folk Band of the Year
Dàimh
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year
Inverary and District Pipe Band
Trad Music in the Media
Pipeline, BBC Radio Scotland
Music Tutor of the Year
Anna Wendy Stevenson
Up and Coming Artist of the Year
Assynt
Venue of the Year Award
Drygate Brewery, Glasgow
Services to Gaelic
Runrig
The Hamish Henderson Services to Traditional Music Award
Pete Shepheard
Services to Scots Language
Janet Paisley
