BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: IanC
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 04:41 AM

Don't forget our own Alternative Folk Awards!!!!!!!!!!!

;-)

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: dagenham doc
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 02:38 AM

June… I love yer!!!

Doc

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: GUEST,c.sparra
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:42 PM

Congrats to all. Wish Afrocelts had got best live act for their Royal Festival Hall gig though.

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: michaelr
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:40 PM

Well, I must say these award winners please me much more than last week's Grammy honorees.

Especially the unique, underrated, and utterly umazing June Tabor, as well as her old collaborator Martin Simpson, one of the three best guitarists in the world, and of course the esteemed Swarb.

Not having heard June's latest, I'm guessing "Hughie Graeme" is on it?

3 Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:35 PM

Hello cloudstreet! Next year you'll be featuring if I'm not mistaken. I too am sad about Dr Faustus. I'm really pleased for Jim Moray getting the double of course but maybe...just maybe...the Horizon might have been enough if only Benji/Paul/Tim & Rob had got best album?

How are they chosen? It's the votes of around 100 people from the biz who earn their living from writing, producing etc. That's except for the 'best live act' which this year went out to 'public vote'. The winners have a notoriously strong and vociferous following among some 'ladies of a certain age. Draw your own conclusions.

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: cloudstreet
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:24 PM

I thought it a pity Dr Faustus didn't make it onto that list. Forgive my antipodean ignorance, but how do they decide the winners?

John
www.cloudstreet.org

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:17 PM

er... Breezy, so do Spiers & Boden, Jim Moray, Martin Simpson and Dave Swarbrick (when well enough).

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: breezy
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:08 PM

congrats to all the winners from the 'Windward' St Albans Folk-song club.

Hard luck Bob Fox who at least plays the folk club scene.

Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: Folkiedave
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:00 PM

As a local glad about the Rockingham Arms, well done Rob. Looks like Jim's year.

Dave
www.collectorsfolk.co.uk

Subject: BBC Folk Awards 2004 Winners
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 06:49 PM

Here they are:

FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
June Tabor

BEST DUO
John Spiers & Jon Boden

BEST GROUP
Danú

BEST ALBUM
Sweet England - Jim Moray

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Co. Down - Tommy Sands (performed by Danú)

BEST TRADITIONAL TRACK
Hughie Graeme - June Tabor

HORIZON AWARD
Jim Moray

MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
Martin Simpson

LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD
Dave Swarbrick

LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD - SONGWRITING
Steve Earle

BEST LIVE ACT
Show of Hands

GOOD TRADITION AWARD
Celtic Connections

FOLK CLUB AWARD
Rockingham Arms, Wentworth


Let the arguments commence!