Aberdeenshire singer Ellie Beaton wins BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award

The Scotsman

Ellie Beaton, the new BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year, wins the title at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.

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00:00CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

00:08We would really like to be giving six quakes looking exactly like this,

00:12but, unfortunately, it is a competition and we have one winner.

00:15And the winner of the 2025 BBC Radio Scotland

00:19Young Traditional Musician of the Year is...

00:23..Ellie Beaton.

00:24CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

00:30CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

00:39Now, as Ellie collects the winner's trophy,

00:42which will be engraved with her name for this year's...

00:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

00:50In 1911, Lloyd George took his side

00:54National insurance owed he to be pied

00:57By every man of the torocht in the land

01:01Including Rob Patterson's hard-working band

01:04Toodalay, toodaloo

01:08And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

01:12Toodalay, toodaloo

01:16And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

01:22High national insurance said Robbie nae fear

01:26Said he was owning the crew to appear

01:30High up said the judge, are you afraid I'm yell tired

01:34So the rest o' the fair must be pied, Robbie's fine

01:37Toodalay, toodaloo

01:41And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

01:45Toodalay, toodaloo

01:49And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

01:54In 1910, Vince was still over a year

01:59So the bailiffs, they pined to not Robbie's fight coup

02:03To pay off his debt, plus expenses on me

02:07They would auction the coup off in to the toots

02:10Toodalay, toodaloo

02:14And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

02:18Toodalay, toodaloo

02:22And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

02:29New liberty offered to pay for the coup

02:32So a riot o' the thousand folk he leered didn't see you

02:36And a stable near a luncheoneer hit a hide

02:40And they killed it, the boobies favourite side

02:43Toodalay, toodaloo

02:47And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

02:51Toodalay, toodaloo

02:55And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

03:01Signed the coup, she broke loose and went to wee her head

03:06Up wee her tail and awash she did speed

03:09She beringed a through Tara, though Files gave her rest

03:13Till she was catched and placed under arrest

03:17Toodalay, toodaloo

03:20And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

03:24Toodalay, toodaloo

03:28And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

03:34Signed the coup, she broke loose and went to wee her head

03:38Up wee her tail and awash she did speed

03:42She beringed a through Tara, though Files gave her rest

03:46Toodalay, toodaloo

03:50And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

03:54Toodalay, toodaloo

03:58And the star o' the tower was the fight to the coup

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