Every year we agonise over nominations, asking a wide range of ‘industry professionals’ (code for old soaks) to give us their considered opinion. But then the danger is it ends up being just like all the other awards out there, and that’s just dull.
So we have grabbed the bull by the horns and made it a much more personal Spiral Earth set of nominations – These are the artists and albums that we have loved the most over the past 12 months…
The nominations were:
Best Album
Skulk -Jim Moray
Static on the Airwaves – Levellers
The Ornate Lie -Kim Edgar
Contraband -Kirsty Mcgee
Best Americana Album
Camillla – Caroline Herring
Young Man in America – Anaïs Mitchell
New York Hummingbird – Dean Owens
A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart – Black Prairie
Blues Album
Wiley Ways – Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson
Blood Speaks – Smoke Fairies
Almost Always Never – Joanne Shaw Taylor
And Still I Rise – Heritage Blues Orchestra
Trad Folk Album
Northumbrian Voices – Kathryn Tickell
Orfeo – Fay Hield and the Hurricane Party
The Seas Are Deep – Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Another Day Another Story – James Findlay
Instrumental Album
Origins – Treacherous Orchestra
Kaleidophonica – Spiro
Dunrobin Place – Matheu Watson
Debut Album
Vice of the People – Albion Band
In Time – Alister Atkin
The Wild Wild Berry – Stephanie Hladowski & C. Joynes
Blight & Blossom – Blair Dunlop
Female Singer
Patsy Matheson
Cara Robinson
Emily Barker
Stephanie Hladowski
Male Singer
Simone Felice
Ewan McLennan
Sam Carter
Sam Lee
Duo
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Gilmore & Roberts
O’Hooley & Tidow
Group
Moulettes
Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo
The Unthanks
The Shee
Original Song
Because Of You – Nicky Swann
Cosmonaut – Nick Cave ft. Emmylou Harris
The Ballad Of Andy Jacobs – Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Young Man In America – Anais Mitchell
Live Act
The Lock In (Demon Barbers)
Baskery
Rua MacMillan Trio
Simone Felice
Songwriter
Nick Burbridge
Anais Mitchell
Ewan McLennan
Karine Polwart
Festival
Sark Folk Festival
Beautiful Days
Maverick
Cambridge Folk Festival
