Jim Moray of course already had two Folk Awards (Horizon and Best Album) from a previous year, while Chris Wood also won Best Contemporary Song for One In A Million a couple of years back and also won an award last year as part of The Imagined Village.

You could draw a wonderful "Folk Family Tree" around the relationships between winners and working in or with members of Waterson:Carthy and several other combinations too. You could probably do an even more intriguing one between the raltionships over the years between some of the winners, the voters and those organising the awards.

So, yes there are many interconnections with previous winners, some of which are with those winners themselves on previous occasions.

And No, you are not going to find winners coming from bands who do not get seen or heard by many of the voters, because they neither travel very far or bother themselves to have aa website, MySpace, Facebook etc. People who do that only eventually get widespread recognition through those disciples who do now use 21st century techniques in additionto to the oral tradition.

Perhaps Sidmouth's leading MySpacer should now embrace The Claque and do them one her excellent adoration pages?