The Scots Trad Music Awards 2020 were announced and broadcast on BBC ALBA on Saturday, December 12th in a special program named Na Trads 2020.
The customarily live annual event was this year broadcast with specially-recorded music performances from some of Scotland’s leading folk music acts, including The Iona Fyfe Trio, Project Smok, Deirdre Graham, Jarlath Henderson and Karen Matheson, Phil Cunningham and many more.
Scots Trad Music Awards 2020 Winners:
Album of The Year
Original Work of the Year
Everyday Heroes by Skerryvore
Community Music Project of the Year
Tunes in the Hoose
Event of the Year Award
BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 20th Anniversary Concert (Celtic Connections)
Gaelic Singer of the Year
Fionnag NicChoinnich (Fiona MacKenzie)
Musician of the Year
Tim Edey
Online Performance of 2020
Duncan Chisholm’s Covid Ceilidh
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year, for artists singing in Scots language
Siobhan Miller
Trad Video of the Year
Calum Dan’s Transit Van by Peat & Diesel
Trad Music in the Media
Anna Massie – Black Isle Correspondent
Up & Coming artist of the Year
Rebecca Hill
Music Tutor of the Year
Josie Duncan
More at www.scotstradmusicawards.com
[headline photo: NaTrads hosts Alistair Heather and Mary Ann Kennedy]
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