Mudcat 2005 Alternative British Folk Awards - Nominations Accepted!
THE COMMITTEE has met and the following nominations have been accepted (please PM me if there are any omissions which you feel need to go in at this stage and THE COMMITTEE will consider them).
Votes should be PM'd to me as a single line of text (I don't much care what else you include, but it won't count) in the form 1A2B3C... etc. It's also easier if you include all numbers and simply put a" -" for categories you don't wish to vote for. Notes, comments, blatant self-promotions etc. here please, so everybody can see them and join in. You may vote for items which you have previously missed out at a later date.
1. PUB/CLUB FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
(A) Bob Fox
(B) Christine Connolley ("Moses")
(C) Jeff Hankin
(D) George Papavgeris
(E) Ken Stevens
2. PUB/CLUB MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
(A) John Breeze
(B) Pete Coe
(C) Geoff Higginbottom
(D) John Kirkpatrick
(E) Pat Smith
(F) Miranda Sykes
3. BEST "NON COMMERCIAL" GROUP / DUO
(A) Blake's 3
(B) Charlie & Adrian Button (Of Hobgoblin store in Nottingham)
(C) Mary Humphries & Anahata
(D) 'Moses and the Ref'
(E) 'Pig's Ear'
(F) Pat Smith & Ned Clamp
4. BEST "NON COMMERCIAL" CD
(A) "Donovan Songs" -Pete Rimmer
(B) "Echoes of Mingulay" - Les Sullivan
(C) "Guide Cats for the Blind"
(D) "Too Far From The Shore" - The Boarding Party
(E) Jeff Hankin's CD (anybody tell me what it's called?)
5. HORIZONTAL AWARD (Best drinker)
(A) Damian Barber
(B) Cllr (preferring otherwise to remain anonymous)
(C) Crispin Bartlett
(D) Avril Betts
(E) MC Fat
(F) Vaughan Hully ("Snuffy")
(G) Splott Man
(H) Hilary Ward ("MGAS")
(I) hris Wilson (Of the Wilson Family)
NOTE ... voting for the Horizontal Award this year is complicated by the fact that a number of the participants appear to have agreed to take part in an "eliminator" at Miskin on the weekend of the 4th - 6th March 2005. Your vote may be wasted if you vote for a nominee before the eliminators have been undertaken (!)
6. BEST FOLK CLUB
(A) Bothy Folk Club Southport
(B) The Carrington fc, Nottingham
(C) Llantrisant
(D) Seaford Folk Club
(E) Spotlight club, St Albans
(F) Windward, St Albans
7. BEST PUB SESSION (Regular)
(A) The Bull at Barton-le-Clay
(B) Crown & Treaty, Uxbridge
(C) The Guest House Southport
(D) Ram Inn, Firle, Sussex
(E) Y Mochyn Ddu, Cardiff
8. BEST PUB SESSION (Festival)
(A) The Bar Room, Miskin
(B) Bricklayers Arms (Whittlesea Straw Bear}
(C) The Endeavour, Whitby
(D) George Garside's slow English session at Whitby
(E) The Tap & Spile Whitby
9. BEST FOLK FESTIVAL
(A) Banbury
(B) Bridgenorth
(C) Miskin
(D) Saltburn
(E) Towersey
(F) Whitby
(G) Whittlesea Straw Bear
10. BEST FOLK DRAMA (non Mummers)
(A) 'Unsung Heroes - The Lost Gardeners Of Heligan' by The Cornwall Songwriters
11. BEST FOLK DRAMA (the "We do it in the road award" ... originally intended for Mummers Plays)
(A) The Mummers Play at The Tap and Spile, Whitby
(B) The Tonbridge Mummers (performing in monsoon conditions at last year's Broadstairs)
12. BEST REGULAR DANCE EVENT
(A) Haddenham Ceilidhs
(B) Phoenix Ceilidhs
(C) RUFF ceilidhs, Cardiff
13. BEST LOCAL FOLK MAGAZINE
(A) The Folk Diary
(B) Folk North West
(C) Stirrings
(D) Taplas
(E) Unicorn
SPECIAL AWARDS
14. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
(A) Vin Garbutt
(B) Andy Jackson (Miskin Festival)
(C) Chris Pitt, for misdemeanours in song (including the for Boars Head Parody)
(D) Dave Swarbrick
(E) Cyril Tawney
(F) Alan White (Wareham Wail and Sidmouth campsite)
15. WORST PRESENTER OF FOLK MUSIC
(A) Archie Fisher
(B) Mike Harding
(C) Splott Man
GET VOTING!!!
:-)
Ian