Mudcat 2007 Alternative British Folk Awards - Voting!

THE COMMITTEE has met and the following nominations have been accepted (please PM me if there are any omissions or alterations which you feel need to go in at this stage and THE COMMITTEE will consider them).

1. PUB/CLUB FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR

(a) Marian Button
(b) Hilary Ward
(c) Jim McAdams (Jock o' the North)
(d) George Papavgeris
(e) Alan Whitbread
(f) Alie Byrne
(g) Derek Girvan
(h) Martin Dent

2. PUB/CLUB MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR

(a) Jeff Cole formerly Andy Martin, formerly Andy George
(b) Jon Loomes
(c) Pat Smith
(d) John Breeze
(e) Leadfingers
(f) Dame Patti Smith
(g) Bill McKinnon

3. BEST "NON COMMERCIAL" GROUP/DUO

(a) Tone Deaf Leopard
(b) The Boat Band
(c) Dana & Susan Robinson
(d) Capella
(e) Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner
(f) Alhambra
(g) Patti Smith & Ned Clamp
(h) Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
(i) Graham Moore & Gill Redmond
(j) Folkaholics

4. BEST "NON COMMERCIAL" CD

(a) Sweet Minerva - Hissyfit
(b) Hilary Ward (title, Hilary?)
(c) Yellowbellies 2
(d) All Go to Barton/Music From the Bull - various

5. HORIZONTAL AWARD (Best drinker)

(a) Hilary Ward (aka My Guru)
(b) Jeff Cole formerly Andy Martin, formerly Andy George
(c) Jon Loomes
(d) Bill McKinnon,BBC
(e) Crispin Bartlett
(f) Ian Woods & Graham Metcalfe (duet drinking)
(g) Bert Tann

6. BEST FOLK CLUB

(a) AnchorFolk, Byfleet
(b) Bedford Folk Club
(c) Wherwell Song & Supper
(d) Faldingworth Live
(e) Redbourn
(f) Bideford, Devon

7. BEST PUB SESSION (Regular)

(a) The Herschel Arms, Slough
(b) Good Intent- Rochester
(c) Rose & Crown, Ashwell

8. BEST PUB SESSION (Festival)

(a) The Bedford
(b) The Endeavour, Whitby
(c) Radway, Sidmouth
(d) Nelly Dean's bar, Miskin
(e) Middle Bar Session(s)
(f) Miskin at Easter

9. BEST FOLK FESTIVAL

(a) Miskin
(b) Leigh-On-Sea
(c) Broadstairs
(d) Bideford
(e) Loughborough
(f) Llantrisant
(g) Banbury
(h) Bedworth

10. BEST "SONG AND ALE"

(a) Fox and Hounds
(b) Pennymoor
(c) Wareham Wail
(d) Whittlebury
(e) Forest Folk
(f) Travelling Folk
(g) Dorset Singing Weekends, Stourton Caundle
(h) Folk Ale, Knockholt
(i) Crows Nest, Devon
(j) Hertfordshire weekend of song - Ashwell

11. BEST FOLK DRAMA

(a) Ashwell Mummers' Christmas Play
(b) Cornwall Songwriters 'Unsung Heroes, The Lost Gardeners of Heligan'
(c) The 2006 Mari Lwyd tour (which was invaded by two other horses)
(d) Kathy Wallis 'Spirit in the Storm - the True story of Joan Wytte.'
(e) Mummers at Miskin 2006
(f) Victory Mummers,Portsmouth
(g) the Devil's Interval

12. BEST REGULAR DANCE EVENT

(a) Herbaceous Border
(b) Peeping Tom monthly ceilidhs
(c) Unicorn Ceilidhs, Hitchin

13. BEST LOCAL FOLK MAGAZINE

(a) Taplas
(b) Unicorn
(c) Folk on Tap
(d) Whats Afoot (Devon)

S0. The "Two In A Bar Award" for the best nonexistent Session/Singaround

UK Parliament folk arts group (* no need to vote *)

S1. The Seth Lakeman Award for The Best Recently Composed Traditional Song

(a) "White Hare" by Scrump
(b) "The Last Fisherman" byJon Heslop

S2. Imaginative Interpretation ("eccentricity")award

(a) Blokes in Frocks
(b) Alhambra
(c) Pete Lister
(d) Apicella
(e) Bonzo & Doris
(f) Kim Howell(the only thing that most folkies have ever agreed on)

S3. The Special Award for determination

Singers and Musicians at the Wellie in Boscastle (* no need to vote *)


Votes should be PM'd to me as a single line of text (I don't much care what else you include, but it won't count) in the form 1A2B3C... etc. It's also easier if you include all numbers and simply put a" -" for categories you don't wish to vote for. Notes, comments, blatant self-promotions etc. here please, so everybody can see them and join in. You may vote for items which you have previously missed out at a later date.

GET VOTING!!!
:-) Ian