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| View Show | Create Your OwnWinners of the “Best Folk Band†Award at the 2006 Scots Trad Music Awards, The Anna Massie Band is a young, dynamic trio finding a very warm welcome amongst Scotland’s top bands. “Celtic culture in sparkling form (Celtic Music Shop) …“It should be illegal to be so young and so talented†(Dirty Linen)Featuring Anna Massie (Young Trad Musician of the Year 2003), on fiddle, mandolin, tenor banjo and flat-picking guitar, Jenn Butterworth on guitar and vocals and Mairearad Green on accordion and border pipes, the band has made a considerable impression on the international folk scene. Previous festival performances include Celtic Connections, Orkney, Shetland, HebCeltic, Tønder, Gigha, Jura, Goderich and Blas. Anna has twice soloed at Cape Breton’s Celtic Colours Festival; in 2006 the band performed at the festival’s 10th anniversary, as well as touring Denmark and Sweden and performing at the Cambridge Folk Festival and a host of other British venues. Anna’s debut “Glad Company†was released in November 2003 to great critical acclaim. The band’s album “The Missing Gift†was released in January 2006, with critic Sue Wilson commending their “near telepathic attunement and seemingly inexhaustible inventivenessâ€.With a “friendly, engaging and highly musical stage presence,†this band is on the up, as their increasing array of nominations and awards proves: nominated for “Best Up and Coming Act†at the 2004 Scots Trad Music Awards, Anna’s nominations for the “Horizon†award at the 2005 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and “Best Instrumentalist†at the 2005 Scots Trad Music Awards, and “Best Folk Band†at the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2006.