Scottish traditional music advocates Hands Up for Trad have announced the inductees into the Traditional Music Hall of Fame for 2016. Singers Arthur Argo, Barbara Dickson OBE, Gordeanna McCulloch, and Andy M Stewart join singer-songwriter Michael Marra, folk groups Mirk and Battlefield Band, piper Murray Henderson, dance band leader Iain MacPhail, Gaelic song collector and psalm precentor Johnathan MacDonald MBE, and fiddler-composer Jimmy McHugh in the Services to Performance category.
Singer and actress Dolina MacLennan (Services to Gaelic) and journalist, author and playwright Maurice Fleming (Services to Collection) receive awards, as do broadcasters Billy Kay (Services to Scots) and Fiona Ritchie MBE (Hamish Henderson Services to Traditional Music).
There are also Services to Community awards for traditional music activist and teacher Liz Marroni, accordion teacher Gordon Connell, magazine publisher Pete Heywood, artist and administrator Caroline Hewat, Gaelic teacher Catriona MacIntyre, and photographer Louis DeCarlo.
All will be officially inducted at the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Dinner in the Marryat Hall, Dundee on November 11.
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FIFE-born troubadour Rab Noakes plays a rare hometown concert when he appears for Cupar Blues and Beyond Club on Saturday, October 15. Noakes, who went on to form Stealers Wheel with his friend Gerry Rafferty, left Cupar in 1963 to work in Glasgow and still has connections in the town. He and Noel Farrow, a director of Cupar Blues & Beyond Club, were members of The Great Fife Road Show alongside other performers including Barbara Dickson, Cilla Fisher & Artie Trezise, Davey Stewart and the late John Watt in the early 1970s. Noakes later recorded with Neil Young’s sometime producer Elliot Mazer and more recently released a double-CD, I’m Walkin’ Here’ to considerable acclaim. His concert takes place in Watts in Station Road, Cupar and begins at 8pm. rabnoakes.com
DON Paterson, one of Britain’s most decorated poets, returns to his first love, the guitar, to play two concerts this month with his recently formed band, the Don Paterson Situation. Before he encountered poet Tony Harrison and became captivated with his work, Dundee-born Paterson was playing guitar on the London scene, where colleagues included former King Crimson violinist David Cross. He also co-led the Celtic jazz group Lammas with saxophonist Tim Garland for twelve years and recorded with singer Christine Tobin, trumpet legend Kenny Wheeler and former Sting, Jeff Beck and Tommy Smith keyboards player Jason Rebello.
The Don Paterson Situation features Steve Hamilton (keyboards), Euan Burton (bass) and Alyn Cosker (drums) and appears at Eden Court, Inverness on Wednesday, October 19 and the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock the following evening. donpaterson.net/music
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