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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.

Tags: bbc, bellowhead, blair dunlop, folk awards, folk awards 2012, graham mackenzie, ioscaid, jackie oates, jon boden, june tabor, oysterband, peatbog faeries, radio 2, Spiers & Boden, sunjay brayne, the lowry, unthanks.

The new Official UK World Music Album Chart is live and features some of our favourite artists including Tinariwen, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Fatoumata Diawara, Raghu Dixit, Peatbog Faeries, Kourosh Yaghmaei, Jazzy B and AfroCubism in the top ten.

You can listen to excerpts from each of the top 10 albums on our next podcast (#80), live on the October 14.

You can see the full chart (the top 20) as well as the Official UK World Music Compilation Album Chart here.

Tags: afrocubism, fatoumata diawara, Jazzy B, Kourosh Yaghmaei, peatbog faeries, raghu dixit, Rodrigo y Gabriela, tinariwen, world music chart.

The new Official UK World Music Album Chart is live and features some of our favourites including JuJu, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Raghu Dixit, Peatbog Faeries, and AfroCubism in the top ten.

You can listen to excerpts from each of the top 10 albums on our next podcast (#79), live on the September 2.

You can see the full chart (the top 20) as well as the Official UK World Music Compilation Album Chart here.

Tags: afrocubism, ali farka toure, Chieftains, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, JK, juju, peatbog faeries, raghu dixit, Rodrigo y Gabriela, toumani diabate.

The 31st Calgary Folk Festival in Canada takes place July 22-25 in Prince’s Park, Calgary and the festival likes to put together ‘arranged marriages’ between musicians who have never worked with each other and cross genre boundaries.

This year’s festival sees meetings between Kinshasa’s Konono No. 1 and southern blues-rockers Hill Country Revue, Scotland’s Peatbog Faeries and UK folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner and UK-Arabic singer Natacha Atlas and reggae star Finley Quaye.

www.calgaryfolkfest.com

Tags: calgary folk festival, finley quaye, hill country revue, konono no. 1, natacha atlas, peatbog faeries.