We are back with a special podcast highlighting the Scots Trad Album of the Year 2016. These releases are in the longlist selected from 43 albums and whittled down by a panel to 20. These albums will now be voted on by the public and panel to make the shortlist of 10. The Scots Trad Album of the Year 2016 will be announced at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards on the 3rd December 2016 in Dundee's Caird Hall. This award is sponsored by Birnam CD. 

Paths That Wind by The Paul McKenna Band
Track: Long Days

The Hebridean Sessions by Dàìmh
Track: Dhannsamaid le Ailean

The River by Hamish Napier
Track: The Whirlpool

Hearts Broken, Heads Turned by Jarlath Henderson
Track: Fare Thee Well Lovely Nancy

Revere by Rant
Track: Fire Away!

Brighter Still by Adam Holmes and The Embers
Track: Love Down the Line (feat. Eddi Reader)

Ahoy hoy by Boreas
Track: North Sea Holes

Gallop to Callop by Iain MacFarlane
Track: Stoddie’s Reels

Between River and Railway by Claire Hastings
Track: Come Spend a While Wi’ Me

SYMBIOSIS by Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton
Track: Fourth

Woven by Sarah Hayes
Track: When Fortune Turns the Wheel

Trig by Tannara
Track: Three Ravens

Astar by Breabach
Track: Coisich A' Rùin

Nathanial Gow's Dance Band by Concerto Caledonia
Track: Miss Murray Ochtertyre

Pendulum by Gillian Frame
Track: The Lass o Glenshee

Hello, Goodbye by John McCusker
Track: Billy's

Continuum by The Shee
Track: From the Shadows

Songs of Separation by Songs of Separation
Track: 'S muladach mi 's mi air m'aineoil (Sad Am I and In a Strange Place)

Matter of Time by Dallahan
Track: There Ain't No Easy Way

Abyss by Talisk
Track: Pict