Clearly, I was getting it all wrong…. I was under the impression that the sequence for the BBC Folk Awards was as follows:-
A] Think of a category
B] Have your panel choose the most suitable recipient
C] Make the award.

Now I realise that I had got sequence entirely wrong. In fact it is:-
A] Think of the winner (Must be a really well-known celebrity for publicity purposes)
B] Have your panel think of a suitable category for that celebrity.
C] Make the award.

Having made that simple deduction, it becomes easy to make suggestions for future winners. Here are the first ones that came to my mind:-


*** Best Morris dancer in a stick dance awarded to Mick Jagger for the album "Sticky Fingers"
*** Best Performance of a traditional song awarded to Damien Hirst for his rendering of "The Sheep Stealer" based on his encasement of a dead sheep in formaldehyde
*** Best Performance of a Sea Shanty awarded to England cricket captain Andrew Strauss for his version of "South Australia".
*** Best Performance of a Ballad awarded jointly to Venus Williams and Serena Williams for their version of "The Twa Sisters".
*** Best performance of a traditional story awarded to Nick Clegg for his utterly convincing "King of the Liars".
*** Best Performance on the Fiddle" awarded to Bob Diamond, the Barclays chief executive for his annual bonus.

I'm sure that other users of this forum will be able to make other helpful suggestions…