Glad to see that sense prevails on this thread and that others too felt that Bob Fox has been unfairly shortchanged on this occasion. He's one of the most hardworking and talented folk artists on the circuit IMHO and fully deserved to win the award, this year in particular. Like El Greko, though, I really appreciate June and this was a specially good year for her in terms of artistic achievement, so the jury's probably still out here.

As for the Folk Club award, well much as I appreciate Rob's work at the Rockingham Arms, he puts on excellent concerts with a healthy guest list, however, as Guest Padgett rightly points out it's hardly a folk club in the correct sense of the term so perhaps the remit for the award should be re-defined next year. Ho hum.

And do I hear some sort of an award for El Greko shouldn't be too far off? We can dream.....