Three people with Western Isles connections are in the running for the Gaelic singer award in this year’s Scots Trad Music Awards
Vocalist and clàrsach player, Mischa MacPherson of Sandwick, Lewis, has regularly competed at local Mods.
Her band, the Mischa MacPherson Trio won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk prize at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this year.
They also embarked on a major UK tour including a performance on the main stage of Fairport’s Cropredy Convention to an audience of 20,000 people.
In 2013, Mischa, who is connected to the Benbecula Macphersons performed at the National Celtic Festival in Australia with Feis Rois.
She has also sang at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and at Celtic Colours festival in Canada.
Her band also won the Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections.
Islanders nominated for Scots Traditional Music Awards
24 November 2014
BBC Alba programme presenter Linda Macleod of North Uist has spent many years researching and performing Gaelic songs associated with her native homeland.
Thanks to her, research work, a wide collection of unpublished Gaelic songs from the island has been preserved.
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Another nominee is Murdo Macleod who was brought up in Inverness in a Gaelic-
In October he won the An Comunn Gàidhealach Gold Medal at the Royal National Mòd. Back in 1995, he clinched the Traditional Gold Medal.
He has previously sang with the Govan Gaelic Choir and was involved with An Lòchran and the Glasgow Highland Society.
He is raising two daughters through Gaelic medium education in the Highland capital and keeps up his singing with Inverness Gaelic Choir and male Gaelic singing group Trosg.
Meanwhile, radio station Isles FM is on the shortlist for the Traditional Music in the Media Award.
Online voting at Scottish Traditional Music Awards is open until Friday evening