Comedian Jim to host Scottish Rural Awards
Oban Times sister title Scottish Field magazine has announced that its favourite farmer comedian will take to the stage to host its Scottish Rural Awards 2020.
The black-tie glittering awards ceremony will be held on April 2, 2020 at the Glasgow Hilton.
Richard Bath, editor of Scottish Field: ‘With diversification now often less a lifestyle choice than a necessity, this year’s Scottish Rural Awards will be hosted by Perthshire farmer Jim Smith, whose new sideline as a phenomenally successful stand-up comic has seen him break new ground.’
Brian Cameron, commercial director of Scottish Field, continued: ‘We are huge fans of Jim Smith at Scottish Field and, after Rosie Morton interviewed him for the July issue of the magazine, we decided he was just the man for the job of hosting our prestigious rural awards.
‘Nominations close on November 4, so businesses will have to get their nominations in fast if they want to be in with a chance of being shortlisted.’
The comedian will follow in the footsteps of other Scottish Rural Award hosts who include Dougie Vipond and Fred MacAulay.
After catching the comedy bug writing sketches for the Young Farmers panto and making his comedy debut five years ago, Jim Smith is now one of Scotland’s fastest rising comedy stars.
Still a working farmer in Perthshire, Jim’s unique insight into rural living coupled with his sharp observational humour has allowed him to create hilarious shows from his day to day life.
With two sell-out Fringe runs and a sell-out 40-date Scottish tour under his belt, when he’s not on the farm Jim is in demand as a performer all over Scotland. TV and radio credits include BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking The News, BBC Scotland’s Scot Squad and BBC Short Stuff The Farm Diaries.
Now in their sixth year, the Scottish Rural Awards are the ultimate benchmark of success in Scotland’s countryside and are partnered by Scottish Field magazine and the Scottish Countryside Alliance.
There are 14 awards, 12 of which are open for nominations, which will be awarded to the winners at the awards ceremony hosted by Jim in April at the Glasgow Hilton. The finalists will be announced in December.
It couldn’t be easier to enter the awards.
Businesses and individuals can nominate themselves or a friend on our website. It only takes five minutes to fill in our online form to register your nomination. Enter at www. scottishruralawards.org.
Businesses have until Monday November 4 to put forward their nominations. Businesses can either self-nominate or be nominated by a friend, family member, customer or member of the public.
The full criteria for each award, along with nomination forms, are available on the Scottish Rural Awards website, www. scottishruralawards.org. It is free to enter a nomination.
As an added bonus, every nominee will receive a free copy of Scottish Field magazine.
‘We are huge fans of Jim Smith and we decided he was just the man to host prestigious awards.’