Voting opens for Scots Trad Music Awards

Organisers of the Alba Scots Trad Music Awards are calling on the public to help decide the winning songwriters and musicians for this year’s ceremony, held on 7 December.

Anita Awbi
  • By Anita Awbi
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • min read
The public can vote until Friday 22 November for winners across 16 categories including Album of the Year, Composer of the Year, Venue of the Year and Gaelic Singer of the Year.

Renowned musicians Donald Shaw, Ailie Robertson and Ross Ainslie are among those shortlisted this year.

Shaw and Robertson have been nominated in the Composer of the Year category, alongside Duncan Lyall, while Ainslie is against Cruinn and Battlefield Band for the Album of the Year gong.

To see the full list of nominees and to register your votes, visit http://projects.scottishcultureonline.com/scotstradmusicawards/voting/

The winner of each category will be the artist who receives an equal combination of the most industry and fan votes.

The awards ceremony will take place at Aberdeen’s Music Hall on Saturday 7 December and will be hosted by Mary Ann Kennedy and Tony Kearney.

Stuart Fleming from PRS for Music, which sponsors the Composer of the Year Award, said: ‘The Trad Awards provides PRS for Music with a tremendous opportunity to celebrate not only the rich heritage of Scotland’s traditional culture, but showcases some of our most exciting young writers and composers of contemporary traditional music. We’d like to congratulate all of our members amongst this year’s nominees.’