The First BBC Folk Music Awads

Subject: The First BBC Folk Music Awards
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 06:08 PM

At this very moment these award are taking place in London. BBC FOLK MUSIC AWARDS. With one of our taking part (see the There but for fortune thread). It is to be broadcast On Wednesday and I will try to provide a link to that too.

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Feb 00 - 06:14 PM

Sorry about the spelling. I can spell award, honest. This is the link for BBC RADIO 2. I do not know if you will be able to hear it on line but it is worth a try on Wednesday.

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: Mike Robertson
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 05:24 AM

And for those who are in Europe outside the UK who can't receive the normal radio broadcasts but want something better than RealAudio and have a satellite receiver, Radio 2 is sent both from the old Astra satellite (reception info here) at 19.2°E and the new digital Astra 2 (reception info here) at 28.2°E. Worth tuning into every Wednesday evening IMHO, always a great program. Especially so this week of course...

-mike-

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: The Shambles
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 05:34 AM

Thank you Mike.

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: GUEST,Graham Pirt
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 05:56 PM

Shambles

Sam arrived back today and had a great time - I'm sure he'll contribute something when he gets back to his own home and computer! - He even got to speak to Joan Baez!

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: The Shambles
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 06:09 PM

Will we hear him on the radio tomorrow?

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: bbc
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 06:31 PM

And I didn't even know I was giving Folk Music awards!

bbc :)

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: alison
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 01:20 AM

that's 8 am Thurday for NSW Aussies

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: GUEST,Sam Pirt
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 08:46 AM

WOW, WOW What a night!!!

It was a great night with EVERYONE there from Joan Baez, the guitarist out of Blur, Liz & Andy Kershaw, Ralph MacTell, Dave Swarbrick, The Carthys, La Bottine Souriante and lots, lots more. It has to be one of the best nights of my whole life!! + we had a session with La Bottine Souriante in the hotel bar afterwards!!!

Listen on wednesday 8pm british time Radio 2, It is also being broardcast on the World-service.

Cheers, Sam

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 02:27 PM

I'm waiting here in Kentucky even though my computer clock is off by about 10 minutes. Roughly 30 minutes to go?

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: Áine
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 03:11 PM

IT'S ON RIGHT NOW!!!

And they started the show with the best - 422 - Way to go Sam!!! You guys sounded great! Congrats again!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 03:11 PM

WOW!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: GUEST,Sam Pirt
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 04:47 PM

Cheers!!

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: Áine
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 05:33 PM

Hey Sam,

My C drive crashed a few weeks ago and I lost the URL for 422's website. Could you please give to me again? Again, you guys were the best group on the show! Well done!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: bobby's girl
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 06:44 PM

It was a great show, and 422 were the best, though I must admit Kate Rusby sounded pretty good too!

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 09:53 PM

Áine--the URL for the 422 web page is here.

http://freespace.virgin.net/ian.folk/422.htm

And I agree, they were the best.

Mary

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 02:09 AM

Can anyone post here, the awards and their winners?

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: Mike Robertson
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 05:28 AM

With apologies if I got the name of the award or the artist wrong, this is straight off the recording I made of the program:

Best original song:
A place called England - Maggie Holland

Track of the year:
Raggle taggle gypsies - Waterson/Carthy

Special services to folk music:
Joe Boyd and Lucy Duran

Horizon award for new artist:
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan

Album of the year:
Sleepless - Kate Rusby

Best duo or group:
Waterson/Carthy

Best folk club:
West Horton Folk Club, Lancs

World folk artist:
Youssou N'Dour

Best instrumentalist:
Martin Hayes

Lifetime achievement award:
Joan Baez

Best live act:
La Bottine Souriante

Folk singer of the year:
Kate Rusby

Good tradition award:
Topic records

-mike-

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 05:38 AM

Thank you very much Mike.

Good to see Martin Hayes win one. He well deserved, that.

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: GeorgeH
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 08:21 AM

Well, sorry 422 weren't broadcast - I guess you didn't play anything anodyne enough, guys!!

The broadcast was dreadful, and deeply depressing; a progression of undemanding, easy-listening tracks. Only lifted by an excellent one from Joan Baez (who was the box player on that, can anyone say? And did Liza Carthy do anything other than her vocals on that track?), and a pretty-good-but-not-their-best track from Bottine. If that's the best then I don't know what I've been listening to all year but it can't be Folk/Roots . .

[Clearly listening to it gives a different impression to viewing the list, since many of the award-winners weren't played in the programme. Our reaction to the awards as performed were that they were incestuous . . and the most clearly and richly deserved awards (Joe Boyd/Lucy Duran and Tony Engle/Topic Records) were amongst those NOT given any airplay.]

But I've already spouted off at greater length over on uk.music.folk, so I'll let it rest.

G.

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: Áine
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 09:00 AM

Dear GeorgeH,

But 422 *were* broadcast -- they were the very first group on the show -- Perhaps you tuned in after they'd been on. They sounded great! And my reception of the program was very good. Sorry that you didn't like the music. But then, you must've missed the best!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: The First BBC Folk Music Awads
From: GeorgeH
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 11:16 AM

Oops (pass the red-faced smilie!) . . must have taken me longer to tune the receiver than I realised, or else our clock was fast. True, I only heard from the start of the "Wraggle Taggle Gypsies" - so I also missed the Best New Song award - which, from the timings CAN'T have been broadcast, surely?? (Or did the show start before 8.00pm uk time).

It's not that I didn't like the music, it was all perfectly pleasant. But none of it *except 422* (and Baez) was at all exceptional. . . and the most galling thing was that the clear-cut (IMO) awards weren't given airtime, yet they broadcast a slot from Eric Bibb who had no logical connection with the awards.

G.