The BBC have announced the nominations for their Folk Awards. See here: Nominations

After last year's recognition of dance band category it seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth this year! As someone who primarily loves dance tunes and the enthusiastic response last year's voting got I bitterly disappointed. The cynic in me is saying that it's got dropped by the BBC as last year's votes weren't Celtic enough: "Oh my God! We can't have English music dominating the voting for this award, let's quietly drop it!".

Apart from that they're all well worthy of nominations in my mind (at least) the Horizon Award for 'newcomers' seems to be for 'newcomers' this year!

And have I heard right that the awards show won't be shown on BBC TV (not even BBC4) probably get effing Jazz or C&W instead.

Darren