Here are the nominations for the 2013 Montpelier Station Award ( affectionately know as The Montys). For the third year running, a panel of judge chosen from a short list of blogger living at my house selects his favourite musical moments from the past twelve months. For the first time in their history, the awards well be announced live on the Folkbuddies Podcast.Listen now
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Best Album
None the Wiser
Chris Wood
Whip Jamboree
Blackbeard's Tea Party
Blackbeard's Tea Party
Child Ballads
Anais Mitchell / Jefferson Hamer
Anais Mitchell / Jefferson Hamer
Crumbling Ghost II
Crumbling Ghost
Best New Song
Jackie and Murphy
Crumbling Ghost
Best New Song
Jackie and Murphy
Martin Simpson (Vagrants Stanzas CD)
Running Out of Time
Luke Jackson (live at Trinity Folk Festival)
None the Wiser
Chris Wood
Silbury Hill
Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin (various)
Best Version of Old Song
Running Out of Time
Luke Jackson (live at Trinity Folk Festival)
None the Wiser
Chris Wood
Silbury Hill
Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin (various)
Best Version of Old Song
Matty Groves
Phil Cerney (live at the York Black Swan folk festival)
Lily Marlene
June Tabor (live at St Georges Bristol)
Riddles Wisely Expounded
Anais Mitchell (Child Ballads CD)
North Country Blues
Martin Simpson (Vagrant Stanzas CD and live at Chapel Arts Bath)
Phil Cerney (live at the York Black Swan folk festival)
Lily Marlene
June Tabor (live at St Georges Bristol)
Riddles Wisely Expounded
Anais Mitchell (Child Ballads CD)
North Country Blues
Martin Simpson (Vagrant Stanzas CD and live at Chapel Arts Bath)
Best Gig or Set
Jim Moray
Folk by the Oak Folk Festival
Luke Jackson
Trinity Folk Festival
Firepit Collective
Priddy Folk Festival
Martyn Joseph
Trowbridge Folk Festival and/or Colston Hall
Favourite Non-Farm Based Festival
Priddy Folk Festival
Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
Trinity Folk Festival Guildford
Black Swan Folk Weekend York
SPECIAL AWARDS
Special Award for the Gig That Was Most Special
Bright Phoebus Revisited
Colston Hall
Full English
Full English
Colston Hall
Jim Moray and Eliza Carthy
Colston Hall
Ewan McLennan
Three Sugar Loaves, Bristol
Best Live Performance by an Artist Named Bob
Best Live Performance by an Artist Named Bob
Bob Dylan
Albert Hall London
Onion Award for Making the Judge Cry
Jake Thackray
The Remembrance sung by John Teesdale at the Black Swan, York
Jake Thackray
Remember Bethlehem sung by Notte Bene Choir at St Nicholas Church Bristol
Remember Bethlehem sung by Notte Bene Choir at St Nicholas Church Bristol
Martyn Joseph
Five Sisters at Trowbridge Folk Festival & Colston Hall
Show of Hands
Cousin Jack at Colston Hall
Singer Whose Name We Most Often Mispronounce
Karine Polwart
Katriona Gilmore
June Tabor
Dick Gaughan
Instrument We Most Often Mistake For a Cello
Double Bass
Jews Harp
Ukulele
Accordion
Most Woody Guthrie
Andy Irvine
Billy Bragg
Martyn Joseph
Most Crowd
Two people
Ewan McClennan at Three Sugar Loaves
Fifty People
Chris Wood at St Georges Bristol
Two hundred and fifty thousand people
Two hundred and fifty thousand people
The Rolling Stones in a field in Somerset
Most Unique Act
Most Unique Act
Richard Dawson
The Spooky Men's Chorale
Crumbling Ghost
Highlight of the Year
Ruins On the Shore
Ruins On the Shore
Nic Jones at Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
Now
Nic Jones at Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
Little Pot Stove Nic Jones at Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
Overhearing the Sound check
Nic Jones at Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
7 comments:
So Luke Jackson's new album doesn't even make your shortlist?
For a very good reason...it came out in 2014, and these were the 2013 awards... If it isn't the best album of 2014, then...well, it will be have been a very good year!
You make a compelling case.
Jackson is playing at our local folk-club in a fortnight (Sunday 16th March). It'll be the first time I see him live.
(We mentioned in the thing that I heard the new song at a festival in 2013...Same reason I picked Jim Moray's "Lord Douglas" as the best new song of 2011, even though "Skunk" and "Cecil Sharp Project" didn't come out until 2012.) Has Luke Jackson done his gig at your folk-club yet?
Hey, this is good, you answer questions before I ask them. The Two Ronnies could get a sketch out of that.
(You could further debate whether Lord Douglas should count as a new song or a new version of an old song....)
I actually have a superb musical week coming up, by coincidence all centred around my birthday. On Sunday 9th, I'll be seeing Dar Williams in Birmingham, my absolute favourite singer-songwriter. Then on my birthday itself (12th), I'll see Transatlantic, an awesome prog-rock band that you would hate; then on the 16th, Luke Jackson rounds it off. I'll hardly feel I need bother go to any other gigs after that.
I'll be applying for a floor-spot at the Jackson gig. Then I'll be able to claim, only somewhat fraudulently, that I shared a bill with him.
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