2009 Hands Up for Trad Awards: Vote for Inveraray & District Pipe Band
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The Inveraray & District Pipe Band has been nominated in the Scottish Pipe Band of the Year category at the MG Alba Scottish Hands up for Trad Music Awards 2009.
The aim of these Awards is to highlight Scotland’s traditional music in all its forms and to create a high profile opportunity which will bring the music and music industry to media & public attention.
It could be said that the breathtaking success of the young Inveraray & District Pipe Band has itself raised the public profile of the country’s traditional music with the discipline and the inspiration it has brought to playing and performance in its unrivalled competition run.
Stuart Liddell, the band’s Pipe Major and recent winner of The Glendfiddich Solo Piping Championships (the effective world championships in solo piping) has taken them to three successive world championships in four years of competition.
This year, in their first year of competition at Grade 2, after being promoted to that grade straight from Juvenile – they were unbeaten throughout the season finishing with winning the World Championships at that level and taking the accolade of Champion of Champions at the Cowal gathering.
The voting process began yesterday (Monday 2nd November) and finishes on Friday 20th November.
It would be great to see Argyll throw its weight behind the success that this band of its own has achieved and help to reinforce public consciousness of the remarkable distance these young players have travelled as they prepare to compere in 2010 at the very top – in Grade 1. With the other excellent pipe bands in Argyll, IDPB is establishing a claim for this county to be recognised as the home of the best pipe bands in Scotland.
Argyll & Bute Council richly deserves recognition itself for its role in such achievements. The introduction of piping to its schools’ music tuition has been an obvious accelerator in young people’s interest and achievements with the instrument.
You can vote online (from 2nd November) by visiting the Hands Up for Trad Music Awards website and clicking on the voting link. You can also download Voting Forms from the site for friends who don’t use the Internet.
And to be there to cheer on the Inveraray band and the nominees in the other categories, the 2009 ceremony is in DG One, Dumfries on the 28th November, starting at 7.00pm.
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