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The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of folk music, with the aim of raising the profile of folk and acoustic music. The awards have been given annually since 2000 by British radio station BBC Radio 2.
Award recipients have included Joan Baez, Cat Stevens, John Martyn, Steve Earle, The Dubliners, Martin Carthy, Billy Bragg, Shirley Collins, Kate Rusby, Cara Dillon, Eliza Carthy, Bellowhead, June Tabor, Oysterband, Aly Bain, Richard Thompson, Nancy Kerr, Seth Lakeman, Show of Hands, Lau, Tom Paxton, Don McLean, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Nic Jones, Bella Hardy, Rhiannon Giddens, Norma Waterson, The Chieftains, Joan Armatrading and James Taylor.




History


The awards are managed by independent production company Smooth Operations, now part of 7digital. Kellie While of Smooth Operations has stated that the idea of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards was conceived by the company in 1999, inspired by the Country Music Awards, and brought to the BBC, and The Guardian has attributed their creation to John Leonard, who formed Smooth Operations in 1995.
The awards event has been staged in different regions of the United Kingdom, including The Brewery in London, The Lowry theatre in Salford, the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall during the 2013 Celtic Connections festival, the Bridgewater Hall during the 2019 Manchester Folk Festival, the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff in 2015,
and the Belfast Waterfront in 2018.
In 2014, 2016 and 2017, the event was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Reviewing the 2014 Royal Albert Hall event, Colin Irwin remarked on how much more glamorous it had become since the first event fifteen years earlier.
Between 2000 and 2012 the Folk Awards were hosted by Mike Harding, and broadcast on BBC Radio 2. Mark Radcliffe and Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis took over presenting the ceremony in 2013. In 2004 the awards were shown on television for the first time, on BBC Four. The event has been streamed live in audio and video on the BBC Radio 2 website, the BBC iPlayer and/or the BBC Red Button TV service.
The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award has been included in the award event since 2011, having previously been awarded in a separate ceremony, but its selection process remains independent.
In 2016, Rhiannon Giddens became the first non-British winner of the 'Folk Singer of the Year' award.
In 2020, there was no award ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic.




Selection


The controlling body is the Folk Awards Committee, comprising two BBC staff, two from the production company 7digital Creative, and one external expert. Two Nominated Representatives, one from 7digital and one from the BBC oversee the process. The Folk Awards Committee selects a panel of 150 representatives from the British folk world, including broadcasters, journalists, record producers, festival organisers, venue bookers, record company directors, agents and promoters. The panellists vary slightly from year to year, with new panellists being invited (or self-applying) each year.
The nominations in most categories are made by the panel. The four most-nominated artists go through to the second round. The winner is then selected from the nominees by a second vote among the same panellists. Since 2013, following criticism of the lack of transparency of the selection process, there have been some exceptions to this general process. The second round of the "Best Album" category is determined by a public vote, hosted on the BBC website. The two track categories, "Best Original Track" and "Best Traditional Track" were removed from the main panel. They are now voted by a much smaller specialist panel of judges, appointed by the Folk Awards committee, whose identities are published.
Broader categories, including the "Lifetime Achievement Award" and the "Good Tradition Award" are chosen by two rounds of votes by the Folk Awards committee only. These may not be awarded every year.
The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, although presented at the Folk Awards ceremony since 2011, has its own independent selection process.
The selection process has been the subject of criticism, with accusations of bias, cronyism, and lack of transparency. In 2012 The Independent reported that there had been at least two Freedom of Information requests to identify the panellists, which have been rejected by the BBC. The BBC and 7digital have responded that the panellists are kept secret to avoid lobbying and bribery.




Compilation album


A Folk Awards double-album, featuring music by most of the nominees, was released annually by the event's producers in collaboration with BBC Radio 2 and the record label and distribution company, Proper Music.




Hall of Fame


In 2014, a posthumous award was introduced to celebrate the contribution of significant figures in folk music's past.

2019 inductee: Leonard Cohen (with tribute performance by Thea Gilmore)
2018 inductee: Nick Drake (with tribute performance by Olivia Chaney)
2017 inductee: Woody Guthrie (with tribute performance by Billy Bragg)
2016 inductee: Sandy Denny (with tribute performance by Rufus Wainwright and original members of Fairport Convention)
2015 inductee: Ewan MacColl (with tribute performance by Guy Garvey and the MacColl family)
2014 inductee: Cecil Sharp




Award winners






= 2019

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Folk Singer of the Year: Ríoghnach Connolly
Best Duo / Group: Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita
Horizon Award: Brìghde Chaimbeul
Best Traditional Track: The Foggy Dew - Ye Vagabonds
Best Original Track: I Burn but I Am Not Consumed - Karine Polwart
Best Album: Hide and Hair - The Trials of Cato
Musician of the Year: Seckou Keita
Young Folk Award: Maddie Morris
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Dervish and Wizz Jones
Hall of Fame: Leonard Cohen
Presenter Mark Radcliffe was also presented with a special Folk Award to celebrate his 40 years in radio.
Venue: Bridgewater Hall, Manchester




= 2018

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Folk Singer of the Year: Karine Polwart
Best Duo: Chris Stout & Catriona McKay
Best Group: Lankum
Best Album: Strangers - The Young'uns
Horizon Award: Ímar
Musician of the Year: Mohsen Amini
Young Folk Award: Mera Royle
Best Original Song: The Granite Gaze - Lankum
Best Traditional Track: Banks of Newfoundland - Siobhan Miller
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dónal Lunny
Hall of Fame: Nick Drake
Good Tradition: Armagh Pipers Club
Venue: Belfast Waterfront




= 2017

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Folk Singer of the Year: Kris Drever
Best Duo: Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton
Best Group: The Furrow Collective
Best Album: Songs of Separation - Songs of Separation
Horizon Award: Daoirí Farrell
Musician of the Year: Rachel Newton
Young Folk Award: Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente
Best Original Song: If Wishes Were Horses - Kris Drever
Best Traditional Track: Van Diemen's Land - Daoirí Farrell
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Al Stewart and Ry Cooder
Hall of Fame: Woody Guthrie
Venue: Royal Albert Hall, London




= 2016

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Folk Singer of the Year: Rhiannon Giddens
Best Duo: Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
Best Group: The Young'uns
Best Album: Mount the Air - The Unthanks
Horizon Award: Sam Kelly
Musician of the Year: Andy Cutting
Young Folk Award: Brìghde Chaimbeul
Best Original Song: Mackerel - The Rheingans Sisters
Best Traditional Track: Lovely Molly - Sam Lee
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Joan Armatrading and Norma Waterson
Good Tradition Award: John McCusker
Hall of Fame: Sandy Denny
Venue: Royal Albert Hall, London




= 2015

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Folk Singer of the Year: Nancy Kerr
Best Duo: Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Best Group: The Young'uns
Best Album: Tincian - 9Bach
Horizon Award: The Rails
Musician of the Year: Sam Sweeney
Young Folk Award: Talisk
Best Original Song: Swim to the Star - Peggy Seeger/Calum MacColl
Best Traditional Track: Samhradh Samhradh - The Gloaming
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens and Loudon Wainwright III
Good Tradition Award: Meredydd Evans
Hall of Fame: Ewan MacColl
Venue: Millennium Centre, Cardiff




= 2014

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Folk Singer of the Year: Bella Hardy
Best Duo: Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Best Group: The Full English
Best Album: The Full English - The Full English
Horizon Award: Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar
Musician of the Year: Aidan O'Rourke
Young Folk Award: The Mischa Macpherson Trio
Best Original Song: Two Ravens - Lisa Knapp
Best Traditional Track: Willie of Winsbury - Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Clannad and Martin Carthy
Good Tradition Award: Cambridge Folk Festival
Hall of Fame: Cecil Sharp
Venue: Royal Albert Hall, London




= 2013

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Folk singer of the year: Nic Jones
Best Duo: Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
Best Group: Lau
Best Album: Broadside - Bellowhead
Horizon Award: Blair Dunlop
Musician of the year: Kathryn Tickell
Young Folk Award: Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar
Best Original Song: Hatchlings - Emily Portman
Best Traditional Track: Lord Douglas - Jim Moray
Lifetime achievement awards: Aly Bain and Roy Harper
Lifetime achievement award for contribution to songwriting: Dougie MacLean
Roots Award: Billy Bragg
Venue: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall




= 2012

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Folk Singer of the year: June Tabor
Best Duo: Tim Edey & Brendan Power
Best Traditional Track: Bonny Bunch of Roses - June Tabor & Oysterband
Best Group: June Tabor & Oysterband
Young Folk Award: Ioscaid
Musician of the year: Tim Edey
Best Original Song: The Herring Girl - Bella Hardy and The Reckoning – Steve Tilston
Horizon Award: Lucy Ward
Best Album: Ragged Kingdom – June Tabor & Oysterband
Lifetime achievement awards: The Dubliners and Don McLean
Best Live Act: The Home Service
Good Tradition Award: Ian Campbell and Bill Leader
Roots Award: Malcolm Taylor
Venue: The Lowry, Salford




= 2011

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Folk Singer of the year: Chris Wood
Best Duo: Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
Best Traditional Track: Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
Best Group: Bellowhead
Young Folk Award: Moore Moss Rutter
Musician of the year: Andy Cutting
Best Original Song: Hollow Point - Chris Wood
Horizon Award: Ewan McLennan
Best Album: Gift – Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
Lifetime achievement award: Donovan
Best Live Act: Bellowhead
Good Tradition Award: Fisherman's Friends
Roots Award: Levellers
Venue: The Brewery, London




= 2010

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Folk Singer of the Year: Jon Boden
Best Duo: Show of Hands
Best Group: Lau
Best Album: Hill of Thieves by Cara Dillon
Best Original Song: Arrogance Ignorance and Greed by Steve Knightley (performed by Show of Hands)
Best Traditional Track: Sir Patrick Spens by Martin Simpson
Horizon Award: Sam Carter
Musician of the Year: John Kirkpatrick
Best Live Act: Bellowhead
Lifetime Achievement Award: Nanci Griffith
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dick Gaughan
Folk Club Award: The Magpies Nest
Good Tradition Award: Transatlantic Sessions




= 2009

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Folk Singer of the Year: Chris Wood
Best Duo: Chris While and Julie Matthews
Best Group: Lau
Best Album: Trespasser by Chris Wood
Best Original Song: All You Pretty Girls by Andy Partridge (performed by Jim Moray)
Best Traditional Track: The Lark in the Morning by Jackie Oates
Horizon Award: Jackie Oates
Musician of the Year: Tom McConville
Best Live Act: The Demon Barbers
Lifetime Achievement Award: James Taylor
Lifetime Achievement Award: Judy Collins
Folk Club Award: Black Swan Folk Club, York




= 2008

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Folk Singer of the Year: Julie Fowlis
Best Duo: John Tams and Barry Coope
Best Group: Lau
Best Album: Prodigal Son by Martin Simpson
Best Original Song: Never Any Good by Martin Simpson
Best Traditional Track: Cold Haily Rainy Night by The Imagined Village
Horizon Award: Rachel Unthank and the Winterset
Musician of the Year: Andy Cutting
Best Live Act: Bellowhead
Lifetime Achievement Award: John Martyn
Good Tradition Award: Shirley Collins
Folk Club Award: Dartford Folk Club




= 2007

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Folk Singer of the Year: Seth Lakeman
Best Duo: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick
Best Group: Bellowhead
Best Album: Freedom Fields by Seth Lakeman
Best Original Song: Daisy by Karine Polwart
Best Traditional Track: Barleycorn (performed by Tim van Eyken)
Musician of the Year: Chris Thile
Horizon Award: Kris Drever
Best Live Act: Bellowhead
Lifetime Achievement Award: Pentangle
Lifetime Achievement Award: Danny Thompson
Good Tradition Award: Nic Jones
Folk Club Award: The Ram Club
Favourite Folk Track Award (public vote): Who Knows Where The Time Goes (performed by Sandy Denny / Fairport Convention)




= 2006

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Folk Singer of the Year: John Tams
Best Duo: John Spiers and Jon Boden
Best Group: Flook
Best Album: The Reckoning by John Tams
Best Original Song: One In A Million by Chris Wood and Hugh Lupton
Best Traditional Track: Bitter Withy (performed by John Tams)
Horizon Award: Julie Fowlis
Musician of the Year: Michael McGoldrick
Lifetime Achievement Award: Paul Brady
Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Thompson
Best Live Act: Kate Rusby
Good Tradition Award: Ashley Hutchings
Folk Club Award: Red Lion, Birmingham
Most Influential Folk Album of All Time (public vote): Liege and Lief by Fairport Convention




= 2005

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Folk Singer of the Year: Martin Carthy
Best Duo: Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham
Best Group: Oysterband The Big Session
Best Album: Faultlines by Karine Polwart
Best Original Song: The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill by Karine Polwart
Best Traditional Track: Famous Flower Of Serving Men (performed by Martin Carthy)
Horizon Award: Karine Polwart
Musician of the Year: Kathryn Tickell
Lifetime Achievement Award: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Lifetime Achievement Award (Songwriting): Tom Paxton
Best Live Act: Bellowhead
Best Dance Band: Whapweasel
Good Tradition Award: Steeleye Span
Folk Club Award: Hitchin Folk Club




= 2004

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Folk Singer of the Year: June Tabor
Best Duo: John Spiers and Jon Boden
Best Group: Danú
Best Album: Sweet England by Jim Moray
Best Original Song: Co. Down by Tommy Sands (performed by Danú)
Best Traditional Track: Hughie Graeme (performed by June Tabor)
Horizon Award: Jim Moray
Musician of the Year: Martin Simpson
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dave Swarbrick
Lifetime Achievement Award (Songwriting): Steve Earle
Best Live Act: Show of Hands
Good Tradition Award: Celtic Connections
Folk Club Award: Rockingham Arms, Wentworth




= 2003

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Folk Singer of the Year: Eliza Carthy
Best Duo: Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
Best Group: Altan
Best Album: Anglicana by Eliza Carthy
Best Original Song: No Telling performed by Linda Thompson
Best Traditional Track: Worcester City performed by Eliza Carthy
Horizon Award: John Spiers and Jon Boden
Instrumentalist of the Year: John McCusker
Lifetime Achievement Award: Christy Moore
Lifetime Achievement Award (Songwriting): John Prine
Best Live Act: Roy Bailey and Tony Benn
Good Tradition Award: Oysterband
Folk Club Award: Edinburgh




= 2002

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Folk Singer of the Year: Martin Carthy
Best Album: The Bramble Briar by Martin Simpson
Best Original Song: Lullabye by Kate Rusby
Best Traditional Track: Black Is the Color performed by Cara Dillon
Best Group: Cherish the Ladies
Horizon Award: Cara Dillon
Instrumentalist of the Year: Martin Simpson
Lifetime Achievement Award: The Chieftains
Lifetime Achievement Award (Songwriting): Ralph McTell
Lifetime Achievement Award: Fairport Convention
Folk Club Award: Nettlebed
Best Live Act: Rory McLeod




= 2001

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Folk Singer of the Year: Norma Waterson
Best Album: Unity by John Tams
Best Original Song: Harry Stone (Hearts of Coal) by John Tams
Best Group: Danú
Horizon Award: Bill Jones
Instrumentalist of the Year: Michael McGoldrick
Lifetime Achievement Award: Bert Jansch
Radio 2 Special Roots Award: Taj Mahal
Good Tradition Award: Bob Copper
Folk Club Award: The Davy Lamp
Best Live Act: Vin Garbutt




= 2000

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Folk Singer of the Year: Kate Rusby
Best Album: Sleepless by Kate Rusby
Best Original Song: A Place Called England by Maggie Holland
Best Traditional Track: Raggle Taggle Gypsy performed by Waterson–Carthy
Best Group: Waterson–Carthy
Horizon Award: Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
Instrumentalist of the Year: Martin Hayes
Radio 2 Special Award: Joan Baez
Radio 2 Special Roots Award: Youssou N'Dour
Andy Kershaw Roots Award: Joe Boyd and Lucy Durán
Good Tradition Award: Topic Records
Folk Club Award: Westhoughton
Best Live Act: La Bottine Souriante




See also


Scots Trad Music Awards




References






External links



The BBC's 2019 Folk Awards Site
The BBC's 2018 Folk Awards Site
The BBC's 2017 Folk Awards Site
The BBC's 2016 Folk Awards Site
The BBC's 2015 Folk Awards site
The BBC's 2014 Folk Awards site
The BBC's 2013 Folk Awards site
The BBC's 2012 Folk Awards site
The BBC's 2011 Folk Awards site
The BBC's 2010 Folk Awards site

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