It all seems to have gone well, and thrown up some surpringly pleasing results(Barbers and McConville). The only curiousity, caused by the bizarre rules, is the Andy Partridge award for "Best Original Song". Presumably this category of award was conceived as something to recognise the contemporary song-writers working in what is called the "folk field" or whatever. So it is slightly anomalous to give it to a song written twenty years ago in a different field. It got the award because Jim Moray recorded it this year, and he is a folkie. But I don't really think the award, as it is generally perceived, is reckoned to include "any song covered by a modern folkie". Lots of folkies cover rock songs, classical songs,show songs, whatever. Does that really make the songs eligible for winning Best Original Song in the BBC Folk Awards? Can we look forward to Bach, Cole Porter and Buddy Holly winning? Personally, I would like to see this award being for contemporary folkie song writers.