Guitar Man Wins The Cup...Eventually.
All I had to do was open the golden envelope and announce the winner. Little did I know the envelope had been designed by someone who had a black belt in origami and a fetish for Velcro. Of course this was all happening on live radio where every second's delay feels like an hour.
Once again I was at the City Halls in Glasgow watching six finalists compete for the title of . I spent a good part of the evening in the company of our Culture Minister, Linda Fabiani. She had arrived fresh off the plane from London where she'd been negotiating with the British Museum for the return of the . She carried a suspiciously large handbag which prompted a few jokes that she's stuffed the pieces in the bag and made a run for it.
She seemed very well-informed about ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland - she said she'd enjoyed our No Music Day last year and seen the recent Herald review of our two Burns-related dramas.
The performances on stage were of the usual high standard and I'm sure the judges must have struggled to choose one out of the six. But choose they did and this's year's trophy went to 24 year old Ewan Robertson from Carrbridge. He had impressed the audience with his singing and guitar-playing.
As I said...all I had to do was open the envelope.
p.s you can read Simon Thoumire's blog of the event .
