There has been much discussion recently about the UK BBC Radio 2 folk awards nominations. Usual sort of criticisms: small furtive incestuous panel of judges, jobs for the boys, why so-an-so- gets in and not someone-or-other, why did such-and-such a track get chosen, it's not even folk. All that kind of thing. I wondered how such things are run in other countries. What happens in the USA, or Canada, or anywhere else you have knowledge of? Do they have awards? What sorts of people get them? Who chooses?
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