Category: Radio 2
Date: 24.11.2005
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The nominations have been announced for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006, one of the highlights of the folk scene's year.
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Categories include Musician of the Year, Best Group, Best Live Act, Best Album, Best Original Song and the prestigious Folk Singer of the Year award.
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A panel of more than 150 folk music professionals have registered their nominations in this year's awards, the seventh.
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The shortlist of the top four nominations in each category was announced last night - Wednesday 23 November - on Mike Harding's weekly Radio 2 folk show.
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The panel will now vote again and the winners will be announced at the Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006, held on Monday 6 February at The Brewery, London.
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Hosted by Mike Harding, highlights will be broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2 on Wednesday 8 February.
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Radio 2 listeners are also invited to vote for the Most Influential Album of the All Time.
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Among the 2006 Radio 2 Folk Award nominees are:
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Highly regarded singer, guitarist and musical arranger John Tams, who has five nominations this year, in the categories Best Original Song, Best Traditional Song, Best Album, Best Duo (with Barry Coope) and Folk Singer of the Year.
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Fiddle and accordion musical partners John Spiers and Jon Boden are nominated once again for Best Duo, which they won in 2004, and Best Traditional Track with Bold Sir Rylas.
Their band, Bellowhead, pick up two nominations for both Best Group and Best Live Act - a category which includes a nomination for Eliza Carthy & The Ratcatchers, with whom John and Jon also play.
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Two nominees for last year's Horizon Award, Karine Polwart and Seth Lakeman, are nominated for Folk Singer of the Year.
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Karine scooped three awards last year, and Seth was included in this year's Mercury Music Prize shortlist.
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The emerging talents of Jim Causley, Rosie Doonan and Ben Murray, Julie Fowlis and James Raynard are recognised with their nominations in the Horizon Award category.
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Details of the 2006 nominations, previous winners and background on the Radio 2 Folk Awards and information on Radio 2's folk and acoustic output can be found on the Radio 2 website - bbc.co.uk/radio2.
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The Radio 2 Folk Awards are produced by Smooth Operations for Radio 2.
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Nominations - Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006
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FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
Seth Lakeman
Karine Polwart
John Tams
Chris Wood
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BEST DUO
John Kirkpatrick & Chris Parkinson
John Spiers & Jon Boden
John Tams & Barry Coope
Chris While & Julie Matthews
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BEST GROUP
Bellowhead
Flook
Michael McGoldrick Band
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BEST ALBUM
At The Wood's Heart - June Tabor
The Girl Who Couldn't Fly - Kate Rusby
The Lark Descending - Chris Wood
The Reckoning - John Tams
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BEST ORIGINAL SONG
A Man Of Constant Sorrow - John Tams (from the album: The Reckoning)
No Names - Kate Rusby (from the album: The Girl Who Couldn't Fly)
One In A Million - Chris Wood/Hugh Lupton (from the album: The Lark Descending)
The Cloud Factory - Bill Caddick (Performed by June Tabor on the album: At The
Wood's Heart)
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BEST TRADITIONAL TRACK
Bitter Withy - John Tams (from the album: The Reckoning)
Bold Sir Rylas - John Spiers & Jon Boden (from the album: Songs)
Lord Bateman - Chris Wood (from the album: The Lark Descending)
The Grand Conversation On Napoleon - Barry Dransfield (from the album: Unruly)
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HORIZON AWARD
Jim Causley (18-year-old singer and musician from East Devon)
Rosie Doonan & Ben Murray (duo from the North East)
Julie Fowlis (Scots/Gallic singer from North Uist in the Western Isles)
James Raynard (Yorkshire-based singer, guitarist and fiddle player)
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MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
Johnny Dickinson
Michael McGoldrick
Martin Simpson
Chris Stout
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BEST LIVE ACT
Bellowhead
Eliza Carthy & The Ratcatchers
Kate Rusby
Richard Thompson
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