Temple
Records Press Release Nov 09th 2009:
The Scots Trad Music Awards
2009 takes place at the end of November and this year two
deserving Temple Records artists have been nominated for
awards. Please do take a couple of minutes to vote online
and show your support for these great musicians who have
done so much for Scottish music over the years.
Finally,
some people you can vote for, secure in the knowledge that
they won’t flip their mortgage/second home, fiddle
their allowances & then charge you for cleaning out
their moat...
You
can cast your vote online here
and you can read more about these artists
& hear some of their music below.
Alan Reid & Christine Primrose
Alan
Reid - the talented musician singer/songwriter
& co-founder of the renowned Scottish traditional group
Battlefield Band. His solo and harmony singing have been
to the fore throughout the band’s history and his
self-penned songs have long been noted for their strong
melodies, story telling element & lyricism. He has also
gained recognition for his fine instrumental compositions
and he is further noted for his interpretations & setting
to music of several of the well known poems of Robert Burns;
championing Burns' work many years before others discovered
an interest in it.
For
almost four decades, Alan has been the 'engine room' of
Battlefield Band, his keyboards underpinning the bagpipes
and the fiddle. He was the first to use keyboards as an
integral part of a traditional folk band and the depth of
his melodic playing and punctuated rhythms have so defined
Celtic music that his, and Battlefield Band's, influence
can be heard in many of today's younger generation of Celtic
musicians.
Alan
has been nominated in the 'Composer of the Year' category,
an award for the 'best songwriter, tunesmith, composer of
2009'
You can listen to some of his music here
Christine Primrose - the great Gaelic singer,
and a trailblazer for Gaelic song. Christine has been singing
traditional Gaelic song all her life, winning many prizes
at the Mod and the Pan Celtic Festival and has rightly become
a highly regarded and sought after tutor & artist who
has also done so much to introduce the music to a wider
non-Gaelic speaking audience, both in Scotland and beyond.
Her
first album, 'Àite mo Ghaoil', was released in 1982
- at a time when traditional Gaelic singing was not widely
known or appreciated - and broke many barriers, becoming
in retrospect, an album that broke the mould. Since then
she has released several other highly acclaimed albums and
is now Principal Song Tutor at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Gaelic
College in Skye, whilst also continuing to record &
tour.
Christine
has been nominated in the 'Gaelic Singer of the Year' category
You can listen to some of her music here