The winners of the 21st MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards were announced at a celebratory ceremony at Dundee’s Caird Hall on Saturday, December 2. Pipe Major Ross Harvey was on hand to collect the Pipe Band of The Year Award on behalf of Grade 1 World Champions, Peoples Ford […]
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Allan MacDonald honoured at Scots Trad Awards / PPBSO AGM
Legendary piper, Allan MacDonald received the Hamish Henderson Services to Traditional Music Award at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards last night. Director of Piping at the National Piping Centre, Finlay MacDonald presented MacDonald with his award. Allan MacDonald [pictured], a former lecturer on the Scottish Music course at the Royal Scottish Academy […]
Parker is Young Traditional Musician finalist / Gary West, Fred Morrison inducted into Hall of Fame
Young piper, Bradley Parker, is among six musicians to win through to the finals of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 2021. Bradley is from Portavogie in County Down, Northern Ireland and was until recently a member of Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band with whom he won the […]
Scots Trads / RSDG’s Remembrance performance
The distinct lack of piping activity this year has been reflected in the nominations to the 2020 Scots Trad Music Awards. There’s less than a handful of pipers among the acts nominated this year. Voting is open until midnight next Sunday (November 15). Ross Miller’s recording, The Roke is up […]