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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
