Several Macmeanmna artists have been nominated for this year’s Scots Trad Music Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 3 December at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, and will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland the following week.

Cliar have been nominated in the Folk Band of the Year category. Arthur Cormack and Julie Fowlis have been nominated for the Gaelic Singer of the Year section. Ordinary Angel has been nominated as the Album of the Year in that section. Arthur Cormack has also been nominated in the Services to the Industry section, and a BBC programme, on which Mary Ann Kennedy was Musical Director, Aig Cridhe ar Ciùil, has been nominated in the Media section. A new music festival, Blas, organised by Fèisean nan Gàidheal (with whom Arthur Cormack works) on behalf of the Highland Council has been nominated under the Best Event section. Finlay MacDonald, who features on Highland Games has been nominated in the Instrumentalist of the Year section, and Jenna Reid of Dòchas has been nominated in the Up and Coming Artist of the Year section.

YOU CAN VOTE ONLY ONCE. Voting is on the BBC's Celtic Roots website, and you can vote now! Follow this link to see all the nominations in detail:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/index.shtml

o vote for Cliar, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes2.shtml

o vote for Arthur Cormack or Julie Fowlis, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes1.shtml

o vote for Ordinary Angel, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes1.shtml

o vote for Arthur Cormack for Services to the Industry follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes3.shtml

o vote for Aig chridhe ar ciùil, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes2.shtml

o vote for Blas (if you want to find out more look at http://www.blas-festival.com ), follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes1.shtml

To vote for Finlay MacDonald, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes2.shtml

To vote for Jenna Reid, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes3.shtml