:: Lifetime Achievement & Good Tradition Awards ::
:: Radio 2 Folk Awards 2011 Nominees ::
:: Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2011 Nominees ::

• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT & GOOD TRADITION AWARDS
  
  Donovan, an artist who has influenced generations of musicians and music fans alike, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the event and performed an acoustic version of one of his classic songs on the night. 
  
  A legendary folk-pop troubadour, Donovan began his career as an itinerant folk musician, creating acoustic hits in 1965 with the gentle Catch The Wind and Colours and his version of Buffy Sainte Marie's protest anthem Universal Soldier. He collaborated with The Beatles and influenced Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison in their guitar styles; and during his enduring career has played with folk music greats including Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan.
  
  This year's Folk Awards also had a special honour - the Good Tradition Award for shanty choir, Fisherman's Friends, whose album Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends made history in 2010, being the first ever album of traditional folk music to debut in the top 10 of the network album charts.
  
  
  

• RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS 2011 - NOMINEES
  
  FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
  Chris Wood
  Heidi Talbot
  Jon Boden
  Kris Drever
  
  BEST DUO
  Chris While & Julie Matthews
  Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
  Megson
  Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
  
  BEST GROUP
  Bellowhead
  Breabach
  Coope Boyes & Simpson
  Fisherman’s Friends
  
  BEST ALBUM
  As If - Coope Boyes & Simpson
  Gift - Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
  Handmade Life - Chris Wood
  Hedonism - Bellowhead
  
  BEST ORIGINAL SONG
  Hollow Point - Chris Wood
  Queen of Waters - Nancy Kerr (performed by Nancy Kerr & James Fagan)
  Rambling Man - Laura Marling
  Stick Stock - Emily Portman
  
  BEST TRADITIONAL TRACK
  New York Girls - Bellowhead
  The Demon Lover - Andy Irvine
  Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
  Willie Taylor - Heidi Talbot
  
  HORIZON AWARD
  Emily Portman
  Ewan McLennan
  Fay Hield
  Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell
  
  MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
  Andy Cutting
  Brian Finnegan
  Michael McGoldrick 
  Richard Thompson
  
  BEST LIVE ACT
  Bellowhead
  Fiddlers’ Bid
  The Demon Barbers
  The Unthanks
  
  
  

• RADIO 2 YOUNG FOLK AWARD 2011 - NOMINEES
  
  This year by combining for the first time the Folk Awards and the Young Folk Award, Radio 2 aimed to create an event that truly celebrated folk music and give burgeoning young musicians the unique opportunity to mix with their musical heroes and influences.
  
  The Young Folk Award is Radio 2's annual search for the most promising young folk artist in the UK. The initiative is open to anyone aged 15 to 20 who performs folk, roots or acoustic music with roots in any culture as a band, duo or soloist. The four nominees were selected by a panel of judges following a semi-final weekend of workshops and performance in November. At the Awards ceremony, the winner of the 13th Young Folk Award was announced.
  
  The nominees were:
  
  Adam Holmes - aged 19 from Edinburgh who is a singer-songwriter and guitarist.
  David Gibb & Elly Lucas - aged 20 and 19 from Derbyshire who play guitar, fiddle and sing.
  Mairi & Steaphanaidh Chaimbeul - sisters aged 16 and 17 from the Isle of Skye who play clarsach, saxophone and sing.
  Moore/Moss/Rutter - a trio aged 16, 16 and 18 from across England who play fiddle, melodeon and guitar.