The tenth annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards will be held in London on Monday 2 February 2009. Mike Harding presents highlights from this celebration of the best in folk and acoustic music on Wednesday 4 February.
Read about the awards and how the nominees are selected
The Nominations for the Folk Awards 2009 are:
FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
Chris Wood
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Eliza Carthy
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Julie Fowlis
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Karine Polwart
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BEST DUO
Bob Fox & Stu Luckley
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Chris While & Julie Matthews
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Megson
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Spiers & Boden
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BEST GROUP
Bellowhead
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Faustus
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Lau
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Mawkin:Causley
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BEST ALBUM
Dreams of Breathing Underwater – Eliza Carthy
Low Culture – Jim Moray
This Earthly Spell – Karine Polwart
Trespasser – Chris Wood
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
All You Pretty Girls – Andy Partridge (performed by Jim Moray)
Come Down Jehovah – Chris Wood (performed by Chris Wood)
Mr Magnifico – Eliza Carthy/Ben Ivitsky (performed by Eliza Carthy)
The Cottager’s Reply – Frank Mansell/Chris Wood (performed by Chris Wood)
BEST TRADITIONAL TRACK
Fakenham Fair – Bellowhead
Lucy Wan – Jim Moray
The Lady of York – Chris Wood
The Lark in the Morning – Jackie Oates
HORIZON AWARD
Bella Hardy
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Jackie Oates
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Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller
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The Shee
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MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
John McCusker
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Martin Simpson
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Phil Beer
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Tom McConville
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BEST LIVE ACT
Bellowhead
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The Demon Barbers
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Lau
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Seth Lakeman
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John Leonard, Producer of The Mike Harding Show, explains how the awards are chosen and why they are important.
The BBC Folk Awards is an occasion to celebrate folk music and the people who make it. The event was started in 1999 as a way of celebrating the folk world's achievements, an opportunity to get artists and industry people together and thank them for their work over the previous twelve months. It's also a chance to showcase to the media just some of the artists and music that we, the people who work in the industry, have been particularly proud of during the year.
The awards themselves are voted for by a panel of around 170 broadcasters, folk journalists, festival organisers, agents, promoters etc; people whose job it is to make judgement of one sort or another about folk music during their daily work. The voting is in two stages: the first round is open and the panel can vote for anyone they like in each of the designated categories. These votes are collated and the top four artists in each category declared as nominees. The panel is then asked to vote again to choose an award winner in each category from these nominations.
We constantly aim to improve the Folk Awards, to maintain its credibility and increase its impact. I feel these are great times for folk music; it seems to be reaching a much larger audience and I'm delighted to see so many new names nominated this year. It's my favourite night of the year and, once again, thanks to BBC Radio 2 for its continuing support.
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