I know many people who voted personally and others by reputation. Its a fairly safe guess to say that staff from Topic records, fRoots magazine, broadsheet and magazine journalists who write about folk (Colin Randall, Peter Paphides, Annie Windley, Colin Irwin, Nigel Williamson), folk music agents (ADASTRA, Alan Bearman, Rob Challice at Coda), staff from Fellside records, folk record shop owners (Whole Wide World, Rocking Chair, Roots2Music), the folk buyers for HMV, Virgin, Amazon and Borders, Living Tradition magazine, festival organisers (Mrs Casey music, Cambridge ff, Trowbridge Village Pump), folk development agencies (Folkworks, Folk South West, Taplas, Wren Trust, TAPS), other broadcasters (Genevive Tudor at BBC Shropshire, the Late Junction presenters, BBC Scotland presenters), large folk club organisers (Nettlebed, The Red Lion in Birmingham), key folk music managers (Nigel Morton, Terry O'Brien, Dave Farrow) and others will have voted.
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