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Thread #118336 Message #2563684
Posted By: Folknacious
11-Feb-09 - 07:38 AM
Thread Name: A Mockery (BBC Folk Awards 2009)
Subject: RE: A Mockery (BBC Folk Awards 2009)
NormanD - It seems an odd coincidence that the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Awards were, apart from both being American, a) both already in the country for other reasons, and b) both represented by the same PR company who handle the PR for the Folk Awards. This in a year when they did a "tribute" to the great British guitarist Davey Graham who never received such an Award in the ten years of the event when he was still alive. In a year that they seemed to do rather well by the British folk scene on the nominations and winners in general, those Awards stuck out like a sore thumb, as did the quiet dropping of the "Good Tradition" award - I'm sure we can all think of many organisations etc still well overdue for the latter.
It rather looks like the two Lifetime Achievement Awards were just convenient add-ons to get the MOR media interested, which, to be fair, they did. Pretty meaningless otherwise though, and a bit of an insult to many from here who have had deserving lifetimes but the wrong passports.