BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards is a music prize, which is awarded annually since 2000 to folk musicians. The prize is awarded by the British radio station BBC Radio 2

The winners are chosen by 120 experts.

Award winners

2000

• Folk Singer of the Year: Kate Rusby
• Best Album: Sleepless by Kate Rusby
• Best Original Song: A Place Called England, Maggie Holland
• Best Traditional Track: Raggle Taggle Gypsy, Waterson: Carthy
• Best Group: Waterson: Carthy
• Horizon Award: Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
• Instrumentalist of the Year: Martin Hayes
• Radio 2 Special Award: Joan Baez
• Radio 2 Special Roots Award: Youssou N'Dour
• Andy Kershaw Roots Award: Joe Boyd and Lucy Duran
• Good Tradition Award: Topic Records
• Folk Club Award: Westhoughton
• Best Live Act: La Bottine Souriante

2001

• Folk Singer of the Year: Norma Waterson
• Best Album: Unity, John Tams
• Best Original Song: Harry Stone (Hearts of Coal ), John Tams
• Best Group: Danú
• Horizon Award: Bill Jones
• Instrumentalist of the Year: Michael McGoldrick
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Bert Jansch
• Radio 2 Special Roots Award: Taj Mahal
• Good Tradition Award: Bob Copper
• Folk Club Award: The Davy Lamp
• Best Live Act: Vin Garbutt

2002

• Folk Singer of the Year: Martin Carthy
• Best Album: The Bramble Briar, Martin Simpson
• Best Original Song: Lullabye, Kate Rusby
• Best Traditional Track: Black is the Colour, Cara Dillon
• Best Group: Cherish the Ladies
• Horizon Award: Cara Dillon
• Instrumentalist of the Year: Martin Simpson
• Lifetime Achievement Award: The Chieftains
• Lifetime Achievement Award ( songwriting ): Ralph McTell
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Fairport Convention
• Folk Club Award: Nettlebed
• Best Live Act: Rory McLeod

2003

• Folk Singer of the Year: Eliza Carthy
• Best Duo: Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
• Best Group: arbor
• Best Album: Anglicana, Eliza Carthy
• Best Original Song: No Telling, Linda Thompson
• Best Traditional Track: Worcester City, Eliza Carthy
• Horizon Award: John Spiers and Jon Boden
• Instrumentalist of the Year: John McCusker
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Christy Moore
• Lifetime Achievement Award ( songwriting ): John Prine
• Best Live Act: Roy Bailey and Tony Benn
• Good Tradition Award: Oysterband
• Folk Club Award: Edinburgh

2004

• Folk Singer of the Year: June Tabor
• Best Duo: John Spiers and Jon Boden
• Best Group: Danú
• Best Album: Sweet England, Jim Moray
• Best Original Song: Co. Down, Tommy Sands
• Best Traditional Track: Hughie Graeme, June Tabor
• Horizon Award: Jim Moray
• Musician of the Year: Martin Simpson
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Dave Swarbrick
• Lifetime Achievement Award ( songwriting ): Steve Earle
• Best Live Act: Show of Hands
• Good Tradition Award: Celtic Connections
• Folk Club Award: Rockingham Arms, Wentworth

2005

• Folk Singer of the Year: Martin Carthy
• Best Duo: Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham
• Best Group: Oysterband
• Best Album: Faultlines, Karine Polwart
• Best Original Song: The Sun 's Comin 'Over The Hill, Karine Polwart
• Best Traditional Track: Famous Flower Of Serving Men, Martin Carthy
• Horizon Award: Karine Polwart
• Musician of the Year: Kathryn Tickell
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Ramblin 'Jack Elliott
• Lifetime Achievement Award ( songwriting ): Tom Paxton
• Best Live Act: Bellowhead
• Best Dance Band: Whapweasel
• Good Tradition Award: Steeleye Span
• Folk Club Award: Hitchin Folk Club

2006

• Folk Singer of the Year: John Tams
• Best Duo: John Spiers and Jon Boden
• Best Group: Flook
• Best Album: The Reckoning John Tams
• Best Original Song: One In A Million, Chris Wood and Hugh Lupton
• Best Traditional Track: Bitter Withy, John Tams
• Horizon Award: Julie Fowlis
• Musician of the Year: Michael McGoldrick
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Paul Brady
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Thompson
• Best Live Act: Kate Rusby
• Good Tradition Award: Ashley Hutchings
• Folk Club Award: Red Lion, Birmingham
• Most Influential Folk Album Of All Time: Liege and Lief, Fairport Convention ( audience choice)

2007

• Folk Singer of the Year: Seth Lakeman
• Best Duo: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick
• Best Group Bellowhead
• Best Album: Freedom Fields, Seth Lakeman
• Best Original Song: Daisy, Karine Polwart
• Best Traditional Song: Barleycorn, Tim van Eyken
• Musician of the Year: Chris Thile
• Horizon Award: Kris Drever
• Best Live Act: Bellowhead
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Pentangle
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Danny Thompson
• Good Tradition Award: Nic Jones
• Favourite Folk Track: Who Knows Where The Time Goes, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention

2008

• Folk Singer of the Year: Julie Fowlis
• Best Duo: John Tams and Barry Coope
• Best Group Lau
• Best Album: Prodigal Son, Martin Simpson
• Best Original Song: Never any good, Martin Simpson
• Best Traditional Song: Cold Haily Rainy Night, The Imagined Village
• Musician of the Year: Andy Cutting
• Horizon Award: Rachel Unthank & The Winterset
• Best Live Act: Bellowhead
• Lifetime Achievement Award: John Martyn
• Good Tradition Award: Shirley Collins
• Folk Club Award: Dartford Folk Club

2009

• Folk Singer of the Year: Julie Fowlis

2010

• Folk Singer of the Year: Jon Boden
• Best Duo: Show of Hands
• Best Group: Lau
• Best Album: Hill of Thieves, Cara Dillon
• Best Original Song: Arrogance Ignorance and Greed, Steve Knightley ( Performed By Show of Hands )
• Best Traditional Track, Sir Patrick Spens, Martin Simpson
• Horizon Award: Sam Carter
• Musician of the Year: John Kirkpatrick
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Nanci Griffith and Dick Gaughan
• Good Tradition Award: The Transatlantic Sessions
• Folk Club of the Year: The Magpies Nest
• Best Live Act: Bellowhead

2011

• Folk Singer of the Year: Chris Wood
• Best Duo: Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
• Best Group: Bellowhead
• Best Album: Eliza Carthy & Gift by Norma Waterson
• Best Original Song: Hollow Point, Chris Wood
• Best Traditional Track: Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
• Horizon Award Ewan McLennan
• Musician of the Year: Andy Cutting
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Donovan
• Good Tradition Award: Fisherman's Friends
• Roots Award: The Levellers
• Best Live Act: Bellowhead
• Young Folk Award: Moore, Moss and Rutter

2012

• Folk Singer of the Year: June Tabor
• Best Duo: Tim Edey & Brendan Power
• Best Group: June Tabor & Oysterband
• Best Album: Ragged Kingdom by June Tabor & Oysterband
• Best Original Song: The Herring Girl Bella Hardy and The Reckoning Steve Tilston
• Best Traditional Track: Bonny Bunch of Roses, June Tabor & Oysterband
• Horizon Award: Lucy Ward
• Musician of the Year: Tim Edey
• Lifetime Achievement Award: The Dubliners
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Don McLean
• Good Tradition Award: Ian Campbell
• Good Tradition Award: Bill Leader
• Roots Award: Malcolm Taylor
• Best Live Act: The Home Service
• BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award: Ioscaid

2013

• Folk singer of the Year: Nic Jones
• Best Duo: Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
• Best Group: Lau
• Best Album: Broadside, Bellowhead
• Horizon Award: Blair Dunlop
• Musician of the Year: Kathryn Tickell
• Young Folk Award: Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar
• Best Original Song: Hatchlings, Emily Portman
• Best Traditional Track: Lord Douglas, Jim Moray
• Lifetime achievement award: Aly Bain and Roy Harper
• Lifetime achievement award for contribution to songwriting: Dougie Maclean
• Roots Award: Billy Bragg

Weblink

• BBC Folk Awards Site

• Music Prize (United Kingdom)
• Folk Music
• BBC