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Thread #97101 Message #1906510
Posted By: greg stephens
11-Dec-06 - 01:03 PM
Thread Name: BBC Folk Awards- Open and clear
Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards- Open and clear
The mention of "The Setting of the SUN" is intriguing(I think Lakeman takes his version from Baring-Gould's "Songs of the West Country", by the way). You see, Seth Lakeman undoubtedly did issue some recordings of traditional songs this year. So it is odd that the Lakeman fans on the 150-strong jury for the folk awards did not select one of those undoubtedly traditional songs to honour with the nomination in the Best Traditional Track category. Instead, we are asked to believe that a majority plumped for the self-evidently non-traditional "White Hare". Two explanations have been suggested: first, that the voters were so stupid that they mistook the White Hare for a traditional song, and therefore awarded it the most votes(also, of course, because they liked it); second, the explanation could be that that they did not award it a majority of the votes at all, but this was done on their behalf by a "collator" acting for the managaement. Both explanations seem unlikely; which do you think might have happened? I can't immediately think of a third possibility.