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BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012 nominees announced
Posted on November 20th, 2011 in Songlines Blog by Alexandra Petropoulos.
BBC Radio 2 has announced their Folk Awards 2012 nominees and folk lovers are now looking forward to the February event. For the the first time, the awards show will be held outside of London at The Lowry, Salford.
And the nominees are (drumroll please)…
FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
Jon Boden
Jackie Oates
Emily Smith
June Tabor
BEST DUO
Tim Edey & Brendan Power
Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell
Spiers & Boden
Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight
BEST GROUP
Bellowhead
The Home Service
June Tabor & Oysterband
The Unthanks
BEST ALBUM
Last – The Unthanks
Purpose & Grace – Martin Simpson
Ragged Kingdom – June Tabor & Oysterband
Saturnine – Jackie Oates
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
‘The Herring Girl’ – Bella Hardy
‘Last ‘– Adrian McNally (performed by The Unthanks)
‘On Morecambe Bay’ – Kevin Littlewood (performed by Christy Moore)
‘The Reckoning’ – Steve Tilston
BEST TRADITIONAL TRACK
‘Bonny Bunch of Roses’ – June Tabor & Oysterband
‘Lakes of Ponchartrain’ – Martin Simpson
‘Maids When You’re Young’– Lucy Ward
‘Sweet Lover of Mine’ – Emily Smith
HORIZON AWARD
Megan Henwood
Lady Maisery
Pilgrims’ Way
Lucy Ward
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
Andy Cutting
Tim Edey
Will Pound
Martin Simpson
BEST LIVE ACT
Bellowhead
The Home Service
Peatbog Faeries
The Unthanks
BBC RADIO 2 YOUNG FOLK AWARD
Sunjay Brayne
Blair Dunlop
Ioscaid
Graham Mackenzie
For more information, please visit the Radio 2 website.
The August/September 2010 Songlines podcast is now available through iTunes
Posted on July 22nd, 2010 in Songlines Blog by Songlines.
This podcast includes highlights from the August/September 2010 issue of Songlines (#70) opening with an excerpt from Cheikh Lô (cover artist this issue). Editor in chief, Simon Broughton, plays an extract from the second free CD with this issue Music from Minas Gerais/Brazil as well as an excerpt from the new album by Dobet Gnahore Djekpa La You on Contre Jour.
Features include: Rose Skelton on Cheikh Lô and Carlou D, Jane Cornwell with her Beginner’s Guide to Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi. Nathaniel Handy brings you the latest news with the Official UK World Music Album Chart, music from Mayra Andrade and Jon Boden as well as his report on Morris Dancing. The podcast ends with a live track by oud player Khyam Allami.
The next Songlines podcast, featuring highlights from the October issue (#71), will be available from September 3 2010.
Jon Boden launches new website to promote social singing tradition
Posted on June 19th, 2010 in World Music by Songlines.
Folk singer Jon Boden (BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year) is to launch a new website where he will upload a new folk song every day for a year.
The Bellowhead founder and one half of folk duo Spiers & Boden sees himself as first and foremost an unaccompanied folk singer. ‘In the 60s and 70s the status of unaccompanied singing was much higher within the folk scene, and most of my favourite albums from the revival are albums where the majority of the material is unaccompanied,’ Boden explains. To rectify this loss of status, he is launching the website on Midsummer’s Day.
‘My current repertoire is something like 240 songs, so to complete the whole year I will have to learn half as many again,’ he says. This ambitious project sees modern technology brought to the aid of ancient culture, allowing people to hear folk songs streamed through the site, on a free downloadable podcast from iTunes, and at the end of each month, buy a digital album of that month’s songs through Navigator Records.
Boden hopes that the resulting 12 digital albums, containing 365 folk songs, will provide a unique resource of English traditional song for a generation to whom social singing in pubs is almost unknown, and where it has become virtually the sole preserve of football stadiums and places of worship.
