The voting is over and it’s time to give out some gongs in recognition of the great music and artists we have featured on Spiral Earth over the past year. The awards celebrate the wide range of music we cover, always grounded in folk and roots but willing to go wherever it takes us.
BEST ALBUM – Twice Reflected Sun Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM – Live at the Grand Pavilion Mabon
BEST DEBUT – Silent June O’Hooley & Tidow
MALE SINGER – Chris Wood
FEMALE SINGER – Hazel Askew
BEST DUO – Megson
BEST GROUP – Oysterband
TRAD SONG – Two Sisters Emily Portman
ORIGINAL SONG – Working Town Megson
MUSICIAN – Phil Beer
LIVE ACT – 3 Daft Monkeys
SPECIAL AWARD – Jon Boden A Folk Song A Day
The Nominees
These are all of the nominees in each category
ALBUM
Through Low Light and Trees – Smoke Fairies
Twice Reflected Sun – Nancy Kerr James Fagan
Too Long In This Condition – Alasdair Roberts
Genuine Negro Jig – Carolina Chocolate Drops
I Speak Because I Can – Laura Marling
INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Andy Cutting – Andy Cutting
White Nights – Catriona McKay & Chris Stout
Live at the Grand Pavilion – Mabon
Matheu Watson: Matheu Watson
Raison d’etre – Dave Swarbrick
DEBUT
The Burns Unit
O’Hooley & Tidow
Lizzie Nunnery
Stornoway
Inge Thomson
MALE SINGER
Alasdair Roberts
Sam Carter
Richard Hawley
Chris Wood
Kris Drever
FEMALE SINGER
Natalie Merchant
Norma Waterson
Laura Marling
Hazel Askew
Caitlin Rose
DUO
Smoke Fairies
Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell
Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
Megson
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
GROUP
The Shee
Fisherman’s Friends
The Toy Hearts
Oysterband
The Owl Service
TRADITIONAL SONG
Two Sisters – Emily Portman
Troubles – The Shee
The Golden Vanity – Alasdair Roberts
Jenny Of The Moor – Jim Moray & Hannah Peel
Trouble in your mind – Carolina Chocolate Drops
ORIGINAL SONG
Fleetwood Fair – Katriona Gilmore
Strange Highway – The Old Dance School
Working Town – Megson
Mark The Hard Earth – Kris Drever
Strange Moon Rising – Smoke Fairies
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
Phil Beer
Andy Cutting
Johnny Kalsi
Sam Sweeney
Aidan O’Rourke
LIVE BAND
Mumford & Sons
3 Daft Monkeys
Seth Lakeman
Dreadzone
The Levellers
