The Best Musician Award really has been abused over its lifetime. McCusker and Simpson have both won it twice. One year Smooth Ops flew Chris Thile all the way across the Atlantic to collect it, in the period when Nick Baraclough's show had turned into one big promo for Nickel Creek. All of which gives the impression there aren't really many top-knotch British "musicians" and of course there may not be hordes but there are a LOT more than you would think by reading the list on the Folk Awards website.
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