The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

, with the aim of raising the profile of folk and

acoustic music Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the a ...

. The awards have been given annually since 2000 by British radio station

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. Award recipients have included

Joan Baez Joan Chandos Baez (, ; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing mo ...

Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; ), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more than two billion st ...

John Martyn Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 23 studio albums and received frequent critical acclaim. ...

Steve Earle Stephen Fain Earle (; born January 17, 1955) is an American country, rock, and folk singer-songwriter. He began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. Earle's breakthrough album was his 1986 debut album '' ...

The Dubliners The Dubliners () were an Folk music of Ireland, Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners. The line-up saw many changes in pers ...

Martin Carthy Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, as well as later ar ...

Billy Bragg Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, author and political activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic th ...

Shirley Collins Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE (born 5 July 1935) is an English folk singer who was a significant contributor to the British Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s. She often performed and recorded with her sister Dolly, whose accompaniment on ...

Kate Rusby Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an English folk singer-songwriter from Penistone, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Sometimes called the "Barnsley Nightingale", she has headlined various British folk festivals, and is one of the be ...

Cara Dillon Cara Elizabeth Dillon (born 21 July 1975, in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish folk singer. In 1995, she joined the folk supergroup Equation and signed a record deal with Warners Music Group. After leaving t ...

Eliza Carthy Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. Life and career Carthy was born i ...

Bellowhead Bellowhead is an English contemporary folk band, active from 2004 to 2016, reforming in 2020. The eleven-piece act played traditional dance tunes, folk songs and shanties, with arrangements drawing inspiration from a wide range of musical sty ...

June Tabor June Tabor (born 31 December 1947 in Warwick, England) is an English folk singer known for her solo work and her earlier collaborations with Maddy Prior and with Oysterband. Early life June Tabor was born and grew up in Warwick, England. ...

Oysterband Oysterband (originally The Oyster Band) is a British folk rock and folk punk band formed in Canterbury around 1976. History Early history The band formed in parallel to Fiddler's Dram, and under the name "Oyster Ceilidh Band" played purely as ...

Aly Bain Aly Bain MBE (born 15 May 1946) is a Scottish fiddler who learned his instrument from the old-time master Tom Anderson. The former First Minister of Scotland Jack McConnell called Bain a "Scottish icon." Career Bain was born in the town of Le ...

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Nancy Kerr Nancy Kerr (; born 1975) is an English folk musician and songwriter, specialising in the fiddle and singing. She is a Principal Lecturer in Folk Music at Newcastle University. She was the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Folk Singer of the Year". ...

Seth Lakeman Seth Bernard Lakeman (born 26 March 1977) is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who is most often associated with the fiddle and tenor guitar, but also plays the viola and banjo. Nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize ...

Show of Hands Show of Hands is an English acoustic roots/ folk duo formed in 1986 by singer-songwriter Steve Knightley (guitars, mandolin, mandocello, cuatro) and composer and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer (vocals, guitars, violin, viola, mandolin, mando ...

, Lau,

Tom Paxton Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter whose career spans more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Don McLean Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail", he is best known for his 1971 hit "American Pie (song), American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minut ...

Ramblin' Jack Elliott Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer, songwriter and story teller. Life and career Elliott was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Florence (Rieger) and Abraham Adno ...

Nic Jones Nic Jones (born Nicolas Paul Jones; 9 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Regarded as a prominent figure of the British folk revival, he has recorded five solo albums and collaborated with various musicians. Biography ...

Bella Hardy Bella Hardy (born 24 May 1984) is an English contemporary folk musician, singer and songwriter from Edale, Derbyshire, England, who performs a combination of traditional and self-penned material. She was named Folk Singer of the Year at the 2014 ...

Rhiannon Giddens Rhiannon Giddens (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician known for her eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the country, blues, and old-time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she was the lead singer, fiddle pl ...

Norma Waterson Norma Christine Waterson (15 August 1939 – 30 January 2022) was an English singer and songwriter, best known as one of the original members of The Watersons, a celebrated English traditional folk group. Other members of the group included h ...

The Chieftains The Chieftains were a traditional Irish folk band formed in Dublin in 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy. Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous w ...

Joan Armatrading Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading (, born 9 December 1950) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her first major commercial success came with her third and fourth albums, '' Joan Armatrading'' (1976) and '' Show Some Emotion'' (1977), a ...

and

James Taylor James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the single "Fi ...

History

The awards are managed by independent production company Smooth Operations, now part of

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Kellie While Kellie While is an English folk singer-songwriter. Early career Born in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, she is the daughter of singer-songwriter Chris While and pianist-songwriter Joe While. She began performing with her mother in local folk ...

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

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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,

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theatre in

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, the

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during the 2013

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festival, the

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during the 2019 Manchester Folk Festival, the

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in 2015, and the Belfast Waterfront in 2018. In 2014, 2016 and 2017, the event was held at the

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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

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, and broadcast on

. Mark Radcliffe and Scottish Gaelic singer

Julie Fowlis Julie Fowlis (born 20 June 1979) is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic. Early life Fowlis was born and grew up on North Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides, in a Gàidhealtachd, Gaelic-s ...

took over presenting the ceremony in 2013. In 2004 the awards were shown on television for the first time, on

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. The event has been streamed live in audio and video on the

website, the

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and/or the

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TV service. The

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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,

became the first non-British winner of the 'Folk Singer of the Year' award. In 2020, there was no award ceremony due to the

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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

, 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

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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

and the record label and distribution company,

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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 Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, soc ...

(with tribute performance by

Thea Gilmore Thea Eve Gilmore (born 25 November 1979), also known as Afterlight, is an English singer-songwriter. She has released more than twenty albums since her 1998 debut, '' Burning Dorothy''. She has had three top 40 entries on the UK Albums Chart an ...

) * 2018 inductee:

Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Cambridg ...

(with tribute performance by

Olivia Chaney Olivia Chaney (born 1982) is an English folk singer, pianist, guitarist, harmonium player and songwriter. Her debut solo album, ''The Longest River'', was released on Nonesuch Records in 2015. Her follow-up solo album, ''Shelter'', was released ...

) * 2017 inductee:

Woody Guthrie Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, and composer widely considered to be one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American Left, A ...

(with tribute performance by

) * 2016 inductee:

Sandy Denny Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. She has been described as " guably the pre-eminent British folk-rock sin ...

(with tribute performance by

Rufus Wainwright Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded eleven studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical opera ...

and original members of

Fairport Convention Fairport Convention are an English British folk rock, folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson (musician), Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Marti ...

) * 2015 inductee:

Ewan MacColl James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was a British folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor. Born in England to Scottish parents, he is known as o ...

(with tribute performance by

Guy Garvey Guy Edward John Patrick Garvey (born 6 March 1974) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and radio presenter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Elbow. He has a weekly show on BBC Radio 6 Music titled ''Guy Garvey's Fines ...

and the MacColl family) * 2014 inductee:

Cecil Sharp Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was a key figure in the folk-song revival in England dur ...

Award winners

2019

* Folk Singer of the Year: Ríoghnach Connolly * Best Duo / Group:

Catrin Finch Catrin Ana Finch is a Welsh people, Welsh harpist, arranger and composer. She was the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2000 to 2004 and is visiting professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music ...

Seckou Keita Seckou Keita (born 14 February 1978) is a Kora (instrument), kora player and drummer from Senegal. He is one of the few champions of the lesser-known kora repertoire from Casamance in southern Senegal. Musical career Keita was born in Ziguinc ...

* Horizon Award:

Brìghde Chaimbeul Brìghde Chaimbeul (; born 1998) is a Scottish piper, who plays the traditional Great Highland bagpipe and the revived Scottish smallpipes. Life Chaimbeul was born in 1998 and brought up in Sleat on the Isle of Skye, and is a native Gaelic spe ...

* Best Traditional Track: '' The Foggy Dew'' - Ye Vagabonds * Best Original Track: ''I Burn but I Am Not Consumed'' -

Karine Polwart Karine Polwart ( ) (born 23 December 1970) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. She writes and performs music with a strong folk and roots feel, her songs dealing with a variety of issues from alcoholism to genocide. She has been most recognised fo ...

* Best Album: ''Hide and Hair'' -

The Trials of Cato The Trials of Cato are a Welsh/English folk band that originally consisted of Tomos Williams, Will Addison and Robin Jones. Their 2018 debut album '' Hide and Hair'' won Best Album in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2019. In 2020, Will Addison l ...

* Musician of the Year:

* Young Folk Award: Maddie Morris * Lifetime Achievement Awards:

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and

Wizz Jones Raymond Ronald "Wizz" Jones (25 April 1939 – 27 April 2025) was an English acoustic guitarist, and singer-songwriter. He performed from the late 1950s and recorded from 1965 until 2025. He possessed what was described as "unparalleled virtuo ...

* Hall of Fame:

Presenter Mark Radcliffe was also presented with a special Folk Award to celebrate his 40 years in radio. Venue:

, Manchester

2018

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo:

Chris Stout Chris Stout (born 1976) is a Scottish fiddle/violin player from Shetland, now based in Glasgow. Stout grew up in Fair Isle and lived there until 8 years of age before moving to Sandwick on the Shetland Mainland, then on to Glasgow in the 1990s ...

Catriona McKay Catriona McKay is Scottish harpist and composer. She is a contemporary explorer on the Scottish harp (Clàrsach), having collaborated with folk and experimental musicians, as well as co-designing the Starfish McKay harp. She is a member of the ...

* Best Group:

Lankum Lankum are a contemporary Irish folk music group from Dublin, consisting of multi-instrumentalists Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat. Originally a duo consisting of the Lynch brothers, known as Lynched, the pair relea ...

* Best Album: ''Strangers'' -

The Young'uns The Young'uns are an English folk group from Stockton, County Durham, England, who won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Best Group" award in 2015 and 2016 and "Best Album" for ''Strangers'' in 2018. They specialise in singing unaccompanied, performi ...

* Horizon Award:

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* Musician of the Year: Mohsen Amini * Young Folk Award: Mera Royle * Best Original Song: ''The Granite Gaze'' -

* Best Traditional Track: '' Banks of Newfoundland'' -

Siobhan Miller Siobhan Miller is a Scottish folk singer and the only four-time winner of Best Singer at the Scots Trad Music Awards (in 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2020). She also won the Best Traditional Track at the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and has frequently pe ...

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

Dónal Lunny Dónal Lunny (born 10 March 1947) is an Irish folk musician and producer. He plays guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD ...

* Hall of Fame:

* Good Tradition: Armagh Pipers Club Venue: Belfast Waterfront

2017

* Folk Singer of the Year:

Kris Drever Kris Drever (born 31 October 1978) is a Scottish contemporary folk musician and songwriter who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his debut solo album, ''Black Water''. Drever is the vocalist and guitarist of the folk trio Lau with ...

* Best Duo: Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton * Best Group: The Furrow Collective * Best Album: ''Songs of Separation'' -

Songs of Separation Songs of Separation was a music project created in the aftermath of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum to explore through the medium of music ideas of separation. It was organised by double-bass player Jenny Hill and brought together t ...

* Horizon Award: Daoirí Farrell * Musician of the Year: Rachel Newton * Young Folk Award: Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente * Best Original Song: ''If Wishes Were Horses'' -

* Best Traditional Track: ''

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'' - Daoirí Farrell * Lifetime Achievement Awards:

Al Stewart Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs wi ...

and

Ry Cooder Ryland Peter Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, and h ...

* Hall of Fame:

Venue:

, London

2016

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo:

Kathryn Roberts Kathryn Roberts is an English folk singer, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Early career Roberts' first released recordings were on the album ''Intuition'', a collection of songs by various South Yorkshire folk artists which also included h ...

and

Sean Lakeman Sean Lakeman (born 29 January 1974) is an English folk musician and record producer. Early life Sean was born and brought up as the first of three boys in Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon with his brothers, fellow folk musicians S ...

* Best Group:

* Best Album: ''

Mount the Air ''Mount the Air'', the eighth album by English folk group the Unthanks, was released on 9 February 2015. It received five-starred reviews in ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Irish Times'' and four-starred reviews in the ''Financial Times'' and ...

'' -

The Unthanks The Unthanks (until 2009 called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset) are an folk music of England, English folk group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional English folk, particularly Music of Northumbria, Northumbrian folk mus ...

* Horizon Award:

Sam Kelly Roger Michael Kelly (19 December 1943 – 14 June 2014), known by the stage name Sam Kelly, was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. He is best known for his roles as Captain Hans Geering in Allo 'Allo!'', ...

* Musician of the Year:

Andy Cutting Andy Cutting (born 18 March 1969) is an English folk musician and composer. He plays Diatonic button accordion, melodeon and is best known for writing and performing traditional Folk music of England, English folk and his own original compositi ...

* Young Folk Award:

* Best Original Song: ''Mackerel'' - The Rheingans Sisters * Best Traditional Track: ''Lovely Molly'' - Sam Lee * Lifetime Achievement Awards:

and

* Good Tradition Award:

John McCusker John McCusker (born 15 May 1973) is a Scottish folk musician, record producer, and composer. McCusker was a member of the Battlefield Band in the 1990s and worked as a band member and producer for folk singer Kate Rusby. He has produced and ...

* Hall of Fame:

Venue:

, London

2015

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo:

Josienne Clarke Josienne Clarke is a British singer-songwriter. Music career From 2009 until 2018 she formed a duo with guitarist Ben Walker, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for best duo in 2017, and signing with music label Rough Trade Records, with whom ...

Ben Walker Ben Walker (born 13 September 1976) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A or halfback, he played in Australia's National Rugby League for the Brisbane Broncos, Northern Eagles, Manl ...

* Best Group:

* Best Album: ''Tincian'' - 9Bach * Horizon Award:

The Rails The Rails is an English folk rock duo from London, England, composed of husband and wife James Walbourne and Kami Thompson. Thompson and Walbourne first met during the recording sessions for ''Versatile Heart'' by Thompson's mother Linda T ...

* Musician of the Year:

Sam Sweeney Sam Sweeney (born 27 February 1989 in Nottingham) is a multi-instrumental English folk musician. Career Sweeney was introduced to folk music as a child via his parents' record collection and taught himself to play traditional pieces by ear. ...

* Young Folk Award:

Talisk Talisk are a Scottish folk band composed of Mohsen Amini, Benedict Morris, and Charlie Galloway. The band rose to prominence after winning the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards "Folk Band of the Yea ...

* Best Original Song: ''Swim to the Star'' -

Peggy Seeger Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American Folk music, folk singer and songwriter. She has lived in Britain for more than 60 years and was married to the singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl until his death in 1989. She is a member ...

/Calum MacColl * Best Traditional Track: ''Samhradh Samhradh'' -

The Gloaming The Gloaming is a contemporary Irish/American music supergroup. Its members are fiddle player Martin Hayes, sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, hardanger fiddle player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and pianist Thomas Bartlett. Guitarist Denni ...

* Lifetime Achievement Awards: Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens and

Loudon Wainwright III Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He has released twenty-six studio albums, four live albums, and six compilations. Some of his best-known songs include "The Swimmin ...

* Good Tradition Award:

Meredydd Evans Meredydd Evans (9 December 1919 – 21 February 2015), known colloquially as Merêd, was a collector, editor, historian and performer of folk music of Wales. A major figure in Welsh media for over half a century, Evans has been described as influ ...

* Hall of Fame:

Venue: Millennium Centre, Cardiff

2014

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo:

Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin are an English folk music duo. In 2017, they renamed themselves Edgelarks and released an eponymous album. Career In 2008, Henry travelled to Calcutta to study under the slide guitarist Pandit Debashish Bhatta ...

* 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 Anaïs Mitchell (; born March 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including ''Hadestown (album), Hadestown'' (2010), ''Young Man in America'' (2012),Clannad Clannad () were an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal, by siblings , and (Moya) (in English, Brennan) and their twin uncles Noel and (Duggan). They have adopted various musical styles throughout their history. Beginn ...

and

* Good Tradition Award:

Cambridge Folk Festival The Cambridge Folk Festival is an annual music festival, established in 1965, held in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cherry Hinton, one of the villages subsumed by the city of Cambridge, England. The festival is known for its eclectic mix ...

* Hall of Fame:

Venue:

, London

2013

* Folk singer of the year:

* Best Duo:

and

* Best Group: Lau * Best Album: '' Broadside'' -

* Horizon Award:

Blair Dunlop Blair Dunlop (born 11 February 1992) is an English folk musician and actor. Early life and education Dunlop is the son of folk-rock musician Ashley Hutchings (formerly a member of Fairport Convention) and singer Judy Dunlop. He received a schol ...

* Musician of the year:

Kathryn Tickell Kathryn Tickell, Order of the British Empire, OBE, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (born 8 June 1967) is an English musician, noted for playing the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle. Music career Early life Kathryn Tickell was born in Walsall, to parent ...

* Young Folk Award: Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar * Best Original Song: ''Hatchlings'' -

Emily Portman Emily may refer to: * Emily (given name), including a list of people with the name Music * "Emily" (1964 song), title song by Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer to the film ''The Americanization of Emily'' * "Emily" (Dave Koz song), a 1990 song ...

* Best Traditional Track: ''Lord Douglas'' -

Jim Moray Jim Moray (born ''Douglas Oates''; 20 August 1981) is an English folk music, English folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Recording artist While studying classical composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Moray release ...

* Lifetime achievement awards:

and Roy Harper * Lifetime achievement award for contribution to songwriting:

Dougie MacLean Dougie MacLean, OBE (born 27 September 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Described by AllMusic as "one of Scotland's premier singer-songwriters", MacLean has performed both under his ow ...

* Roots Award:

Venue:

2012

*Folk Singer of the year:

* Best Duo:

Tim Edey Tim Edey is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer who grew up in Broadstairs, Kent and is now based in Perthshire, Scotland. In 2012 he was Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and, with Brendan Power, Best Duo. He was a ...

Brendan Power Brendan Power is a New Zealand harmonica player, composer and inventor, living in Britain. Born in Mombasa, Kenya, Power's family moved to New Zealand in 1965 where he later attended Canterbury University at Christchurch, gaining a Bachelor of A ...

* Best Traditional Track: '' Bonny Bunch of Roses'' -

* Best Group:

* Young Folk Award: Ioscaid * Musician of the year:

* Best Original Song: ''The Herring Girl'' -

and The Reckoning –

Steve Tilston Steve Tilston (born 26 March 1950) is an English folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. Early life Steve Tilston was born in Liverpool and brought up in Leicestershire. A graphic designer before taking up music in 1971, Tilston lived in Bristol ...

* Horizon Award: Lucy Ward * Best Album: ''Ragged Kingdom'' –

* Lifetime achievement awards:

and

* Best Live Act: The Home Service * Good Tradition Award: Ian Campbell and

Bill Leader Bill Leader (born 26 December 1929) is an English recording engineer and record producer. He is particularly associated with the British folk music revival of the 1960s and 1970s, producing records by Paddy Tunney, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, ...

* Roots Award: Malcolm Taylor Venue:

, Salford

2011

* Folk Singer of the year: Chris Wood * Best Duo:

& James Fagan * Best Traditional Track: '' Poor Wayfaring Stranger'' -

* Best Group:

* Young Folk Award: Moore Moss Rutter * Musician of the year:

* Best Original Song: ''Hollow Point'' - Chris Wood * Horizon Award: Ewan McLennan * Best Album: ''Gift'' –

* Lifetime achievement award:

Donovan Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored multiple international hit singles ...

* Best Live Act:

* Good Tradition Award:

Fisherman's Friends The Fisherman's Friends are a folk music group from Port Isaac, Cornwall, who sing sea shanties. They have been performing locally since 1995, and signed a record deal with Universal Music in March 2010. Whilst essentially an a cappella group, ...

* Roots Award:

Levellers The Levellers were a political movement active during the English Civil War who were committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. The hallmark of Leveller thought was its populism, as sh ...

Venue: The Brewery, London

2010

* Folk Singer of the Year:

Jon Boden Jon Boden (born 17 March 1977) is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead. His first instrument is the fiddle and he is a proponent of "English traditional fiddle style" and also of "fiddle si ...

* Best Duo:

* Best Group: Lau * Best Album: ''

Hill of Thieves ''Hill of Thieves'' is the fourth solo album by Irish folk singer Cara Dillon. It is her first full-length release on Charcoal Records, the label formed in 2008 with her musical partner and husband Sam Lakeman. The album was recorded and produce ...

'' by

* Best Original Song: '' Arrogance Ignorance and Greed'' by

Steve Knightley Steve Knightley (born 1954) is an English singer, songwriter and acoustic musician. Since 1992 he has been one half of folk/roots duo Show of Hands along with Phil Beer. Knightley was named "Songwriter of the Nineties" by BBC Radio 6 Music in ...

(performed by

) * Best Traditional Track: ''

Sir Patrick Spens "Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud 41), and is of Scotland, Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea. Background ''Sir Patrick Spens'' remains one of ...

'' by

Martin Simpson Martin Stewart Simpson (born 5 May 1953) is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in Britain, Ireland, America and beyond. He builds a purposeful, often upbeat voi ...

* Horizon Award: Sam Carter * Musician of the Year: John Kirkpatrick * Best Live Act:

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

Nanci Griffith Nanci Caroline Griffith (July 6, 1953 – August 13, 2021) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She often appeared on the PBS music program ''Austin City Limits'', starting in 1985 during season 10. In 1990, Griffith appeared on th ...

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

Dick Gaughan Richard Peter Gaughan (born 17 May 1948) is a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs. He is regarded as one of Scotland's leading singer-songwriters. Early years Gaughan was born in Glasgow's Ro ...

* Folk Club Award: The Magpies Nest * Good Tradition Award:

Transatlantic Sessions Transatlantic Sessions is the collective title for a series of musical productions by Glasgow-based Pelicula Films Ltd, funded by- and produced for BBC Scotland, BBC Four and RTÉ of Ireland. The productions comprise collaborative live performan ...

2009

* Folk Singer of the Year: Chris Wood * Best Duo:

Chris While Chris While (born 1956) is an English songwriter, singer and musician, known particularly for her vocals and live performances. She has worked as a solo artist, a songwriter and as a member of a number of duos and groups. Her music is often cla ...

and

Julie Matthews Julie Matthews (born 1963) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. She has been a member of British folk duos and groups, and her work has been covered by a range of artists and groups. Her music is often c ...

* Best Group: Lau * Best Album: ''Trespasser'' by Chris Wood * Best Original Song: ''All You Pretty Girls'' by

Andy Partridge Andrew John Partridge (born 11 November 1953) is an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer best known for co-founding the band XTC. He and Colin Moulding each acted as a songwriter and frontman for XTC, with Partridge writing a ...

(performed by

) * Best Traditional Track: '' The Lark in the Morning'' by

Jackie Oates Jackie Oates is an English folk singer and fiddle player. Life Jackie Oates was born in Congleton in Cheshire in 1983. At the age of 18, she moved to Devon to study English literature at Exeter University and was based in Devon until 2011, ...

* Horizon Award:

* Musician of the Year: Tom McConville * Best Live Act: The Demon Barbers * Lifetime Achievement Award: James Taylor * Lifetime Achievement Award:

Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Awards, Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award-winning rec ...

* Folk Club Award: Black Swan Folk Club, York

2008

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo:

John Tams John Tams (born 16 February 1949) is an English actor, singer, songwriter, composer and musician born in Holbrook, Derbyshire, Holbrook, Derbyshire, the son of a Public house, publican. He first worked as a reporter for the ''Ripley, Derbyshire ...

and Barry Coope * Best Group: Lau * Best Album: ''

Prodigal Son The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father; ) is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32. In Luke 15, Jesus tells this stor ...

'' by

* Best Original Song: ''Never Any Good'' by

* Best Traditional Track: ''Cold Haily Rainy Night'' by

The Imagined Village The Imagined Village is a folk music project founded by Simon Emmerson of Afro Celt Sound System. A reflection of modern United Kingdom multiculturalism, the music collective syncretizes diverse musical traditions while featuring musicians ...

* Horizon Award:

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aun ...

* Musician of the Year:

* Best Live Act:

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

* Good Tradition Award:

* Folk Club Award:

Dartford Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located south-east of Central London and is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames Estuary, is Thurrock in ...

Folk Club

2007

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo:

and

Dave Swarbrick David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English traditional folk musician and songwriter and one of the greatest fiddlers in the world. He was one of the most highly regarded musicians produced by the second Bri ...

* Best Group:

* Best Album: '' Freedom Fields'' by

* Best Original Song: ''Daisy'' by

* Best Traditional Track: '' Barleycorn'' (performed by

Tim van Eyken Tim van Eyken (born 7 March 1978) is an English actor, singer, melodeon player and guitarist. Career Van Eyken first started playing penny whistle after seeing James Galway on television. He graduated to playing for his mother, then a member ...

) * Musician of the Year:

Chris Thile Christopher Scott Thile (; born February 20, 1981) is an American mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality, best known for his work in the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and the acoustic folk and progressive blue ...

* Horizon Award:

* Best Live Act:

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

Pentangle Pentangle may refer to: *Pentagon, a five-sided polygon *Pentagram, a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes *Pentangle (band), a British folk rock band ** ''The Pentangle'' (album), a 1968 album by Pentangle *Miss Pentangle, a character ...

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

Danny Thompson Daniel Henry Edward Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson and John Ma ...

* Good Tradition Award:

* Folk Club Award: The Ram Club * Favourite Folk Track Award (public vote): Who Knows Where The Time Goes (performed by

)

2006

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo: John Spiers and Jon Boden * Best Group: Flook * Best Album: ''The Reckoning'' by

* Best Original Song: ''One In A Million'' by Chris Wood and

Hugh Lupton Hugh Lupton is a British storyteller, one of the most prominent figures in the tradition of oral storytelling. Early life and career Lupton was born in 1952, the eldest child of Francis G. H. Lupton and Mary Gee/Lupton. He is the great nephew ...

* Best Traditional Track: '' Bitter Withy'' (performed by

) * Horizon Award:

* Musician of the Year:

Michael McGoldrick Michael McGoldrick (born 26 November 1971, in Manchester, England) is a folk musician who plays Irish flute, uilleann pipes, low whistle and bodhran. He also plays other instruments such as acoustic guitar, cittern, and mandolin. Bands McG ...

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

Paul Brady Paul Joseph Brady (born 19 May 1947) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician from Strabane, Northern Ireland. His work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age. Initially popular for playing ...

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

* Best Live Act:

* Good Tradition Award:

Ashley Hutchings Ashley Stephen Hutchings (born 26 January 1945), MBE, sometimes known in early years as "Tyger" Hutchings, is an English bassist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer. He was a founding member of three noteworthy Engli ...

* Folk Club Award: Red Lion,

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

* Most Influential Folk Album of All Time (public vote): ''

Liege and Lief ''Liege & Lief'' is the fourth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third album the group released in the UK during 1969, all of which prominently feature Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist (Denny did not appear on ...

'' by

2005

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo:

and Phil Cunningham * Best Group:

The Big Session * Best Album: '' Faultlines'' by

* Best Original Song: ''The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill'' by

* Best Traditional Track: '' Famous Flower Of Serving Men'' (performed by

) * Horizon Award:

* Musician of the Year:

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

* Lifetime Achievement Award (Songwriting):

Tom Paxton Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter whose career spans more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

* Best Live Act:

* Best Dance Band: Whapweasel * Good Tradition Award:

Steeleye Span Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior. The band were part of the 1970s British folk revival, ...

* Folk Club Award:

Hitchin Hitchin () is a market town in the North Hertfordshire Districts of England, district of Hertfordshire, England. The town dates from at least the 7th century. It lies in the valley of the River Hiz at the north-eastern end of the Chiltern Hills ...

Folk Club

2004

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo: John Spiers and Jon Boden * Best Group:

Danú Danú is an Irish traditional music band. The founding members of Danú (Donnchadh Gough, Dónal Clancy, Daire Bracken, and Benny McCarthy) met in Waterford in Ireland in 1994, and consolidated as a band after performing in the Festival Inte ...

* Best Album: ''Sweet England'' by

* Best Original Song: ''Co. Down'' by Tommy Sands (performed by

) * Best Traditional Track: '' Hughie Graeme'' (performed by

) * Horizon Award:

* Musician of the Year:

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

* Lifetime Achievement Award (Songwriting):

* Best Live Act:

* Good Tradition Award:

* Folk Club Award: Rockingham Arms, Wentworth

2003

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Duo:

and James Fagan * Best Group:

Altan Altan may refer to: * Altan (name) * Altan (company), a software company. * Altan (band), a folk music group from Donegal * ''Altan'' (album), a 1987 album by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy * Altan Jalab, a village in Afghanistan * A ...

* Best Album: ''Anglicana'' by

* Best Original Song: ''No Telling'' performed by

Linda Thompson Linda Diane Thompson (born May 23, 1950) is an American songwriter, former actress and beauty pageant winner. Thompson began her acting career as a " Hee Haw Honey" on the American television variety show ''Hee Haw''. She was also a girlfrien ...

* Best Traditional Track: ''Worcester City'' performed by

* Horizon Award: John Spiers and Jon Boden * Instrumentalist of the Year:

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

Christy Moore Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of the bands Planxty and Moving Hearts and has had significant success as a solo artist. His first albu ...

* Lifetime Achievement Award (Songwriting):

John Prine John Edward Prine (; October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk music. Widely cited as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, Prine was known for his signature blend of humoro ...

* Best Live Act: Roy Bailey and Tony Benn * Good Tradition Award:

* Folk Club Award:

Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...

2002

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Album: ''The Bramble Briar'' by

* Best Original Song: ''Lullabye'' by

* Best Traditional Track: ''

Black Is the Color "Black Is the Color (of My True Love's Hair)" (Roud 3103) is a traditional ballad folk song known in the US as associated with colonial and later music in the Appalachian Mountains. It is believed to have originated in Ireland / Scotland, as it ...

'' performed by

* Best Group:

Cherish the Ladies Cherish the Ladies is an American female super group that plays Celtic music. The band began as a concert series in New York in January 1985. It was the brainchild of Mick Moloney who wanted to showcase the brightest female musicians in Amer ...

* Horizon Award:

* Instrumentalist of the Year:

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

* Lifetime Achievement Award (Songwriting):

Ralph McTell Ralph McTell (born Ralph May; 3 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s. McTell is best known for his song " Streets of London" (1969), which ...

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

* Folk Club Award:

Nettlebed Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire in the Chiltern Hills about north-west of Henley-on-Thames and south-east of Wallingford. The parish includes the hamlet of Crocker End, about east of the village. The 2011 Census r ...

* Best Live Act: Rory McLeod

2001

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Album: ''Unity'' by

* Best Original Song: ''Harry Stone (Hearts of Coal)'' by

* Best Group:

* Horizon Award: Bill Jones * Instrumentalist of the Year:

* Lifetime Achievement Award:

Bert Jansch Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle (band), Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and ...

* Radio 2 Special Roots Award:

Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal ( ; ; ) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal Empire, Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan () to house the tomb of his belo ...

* Good Tradition Award: Bob Copper * Folk Club Award: The Davy Lamp * Best Live Act: Vin Garbutt

2000

* Folk Singer of the Year:

* Best Album: ''Sleepless'' by

* Best Original Song: ''A Place Called England'' by

Maggie Holland Maggie Holland (born 19 December 1949) is an English singer and songwriter. She was born and raised in Alton, Hampshire, England, and became involved in the local folk club scene in the late 1960s. She has played in a number of bands and formed ...

* Best Traditional Track: '' Raggle Taggle Gypsy'' performed by

Waterson–Carthy Waterson:Carthy were an English folk group originally comprising Norma Waterson on vocals, her husband Martin Carthy on guitar and vocals and their daughter Eliza Carthy on fiddle and vocals. History The group had a repertoire of predominantly ...

* Best Group:

* Horizon Award:

and James Fagan * Instrumentalist of the Year: Martin Hayes * Radio 2 Special Award:

* Radio 2 Special Roots Award:

Youssou N'Dour Youssou N'Dour (, ; also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour; born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' described him as, "perhaps the m ...

* Andy Kershaw Roots Award:

Joe Boyd Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer. He formerly owned Hannibal Records. Boyd has worked with Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny who was in Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, The ...

and

Lucy Durán Lucy Durán is a British ethnomusicologist, record producer and radio presenter. In the 1980s, Durán worked as a curator at the British Library National Sound Archive. She joined SOAS University of London in 1993, and is Professor of Music with ...

* Good Tradition Award:

Topic Records Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.M. Brocken ...

* Folk Club Award:

Westhoughton Westhoughton ( ) is a List of towns in England, town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, southwest of Bolton, east of Wigan and northwest of Manchester.

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