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Thread #161848 Message #3849330
Posted By: GUEST
07-Apr-17 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: National Folk Awards 2017
Subject: RE: National Folk Awards 2017
Shirley Collins up for Folk Singer of the Year and Best Album for Lodestar:
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017 Nominations:
Folk Singer of the Year
Daoiri Farrell Jim Causley Kris Drever Shirley Collins
Best Duo
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker Megson O'Hooley and Tidow Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton
Best Group
9Bach Breabach The Furrow Collective The Gloaming
Best Album
Jarlath Henderson - Hearts Broken, Heads Turned Jim Moray - Upcetera Martin Green - Flit Shirley Collins - Lodestar Songs of Separation - Songs of Separation
Horizon Award
Daoiri Farrell Fara Ninebarrow Talisk
Musician of the Year
John McCusker John McSherry Mohsen Amini Rachel Newton
Best Original Track
Fragile Water by Nancy Kerr If Wishes Were Horses by Kris Drever Roll Away by Martin Green feat. Adam Holmes Sounds of Earth by Jim Moray
Best Traditional Track Courting Is a Pleasure by Jarlath Henderson Echo Mocks The Corncrake by Songs of Separation Van Diemen's Land by Daoiri Farrell Willie Taylor by Julie Murphy
BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award
Amelia Coburn Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach Eryn Rae Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente
So all of the above - who apparently willingly participated in the event - not to mention those who turned up on the night, and who listened to or watched the programme - are all wrong and the GSS is right ? Nobody allowed even mildly to disagree or hold a contrary opinion ?