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Thread #96886 Message #1899279
Posted By: Effsee
03-Dec-06 - 09:44 PM
Thread Name: Review: The 2006 Trad music Awards (U.K.)
Subject: RE: Review: The 2006 Trad music Awards
The Scottish Traditional Music Awards were as follows:-
Album of the Year: Heart of America - Donnie Munro
Club of the Year: Wick Accordian and Fiddle Club
Community Project of the Year: Feisean nan Gaidheal
Composer of the Year: Donald Shaw
Event of the Year: World Pipe Band Championships
Gaelic Singer of the Year: Kathleen MacInnes
Services to Industry Award: Johnny Mowat (Orkney Folk Festival)
Instrumentalist of the Year: Aidan O'Rourke
Live Act of the Year: The McCalmans
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year: Sylvia Barnes
Scottish Dance Band of the Year: Marian Anderson Scottish Dance Band
Scottish Folk Band of the Year: Anna Massie Band
Scottish Pipe Band of the Year: Kintyre Schools
Up & Coming Artist of the Year: Jenna Cumming
Strathspey & Reel Society of the Year: Banchory Strathspey and Reel Society
McEwans Sessions Venue of the Year: The Lismore, Glasgow
Hamish Henderson Award: Robbie Shepherd.
Hall of Fame Inductees: Jock Duncan, Kenna Campbell, Fergie MacDonald, Donald MacPherson, Aly Bain. Posthumous Inductees - Jeannie Robertson and Sir Jimmy Shand
Whilst being entirely ambivelant to "Awards" in general, I was delighted to note that Johnny Mowat has recieved acknowledgement for the wonderful job he and his team have carried out over the best part of quarter of a century for the Orkney Folk Festival!