SPECIAL AWARDS


1: Special Award for the MOST CHALLENGING FOLK DAY of 2015

March 16th 2015


2: The UNCLE award for the BEST FRANK SINATRA COVER BY AN ARTIST CALLED BOB

• Bob Dylan for What'll I Do @ Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Oct 29
• Bob Dylan for Melancholy Mood @ Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Oct 29
• Bob Dylan for I'm a Fool to Want You @ Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Oct 29
• Bob Dylan for Why Try to Change Me Now @ Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Oct 29
• Bob Dylan The Night We Called It a Day @ Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Oct 29
• Bob Dylan for All or Nothing at All @ Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Oct 29
• Bob Dylan for Autumn Leaves @ Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Oct 29

3: The COUSIN JACK award (formally known as the ONION award) for MAKING THE JUDGE CRY

• Christy Moore for Beeswing @ Acoustic Stage, Glastonbury
• Christy Moore's Audience for Viva Quinta Brigada @ Acoustic State, Glastonbury
• False Lights for Crossing the Bar @ Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
• Grace Petrie for Farewell to Welfare @ Left Field Stage, Glastonbury
• Gaz Brookfield for Be The Bigger Man @ Chapel Arts Bath 19th Feb

4: Special Award for BEST PERFORMANCE by a VOCAL, GUITAR and FIDDLE DUO

• Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick @ Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
• Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick @ St Davids, Cardiff, Sep 1
• Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick @ Colston Hall, Bristol, Sep 26

5: The Special Award for the GIG YOU WOULDN'T REALLY HAVE EXPECT THE JUDGE TO LIKE

• Motorhead @ Pyramid Stage Glastonbury 2016
• The Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing @ Lousiana, Bristol, November 28th

6: The Special Award for the GIG THAT WAS MOST SPECIAL

• Tom Paxton @ St George's Bristol. 23rd May

7: The Special Award for the BEST FOLK MUSIC MOMENT OF 2015



The Red Flag - Billy Bragg @ Solidarity With Refugees 16th Sep 2015


MONTY AWARDS

Best New Version of Old Song, 

• Crossing the Bar by False Lights
• Close the Coal House Door by Blackbeard Tea Party
• The Blacksmith by Stick in the Wheel

Best New Song

• Breme Fell At Hastings by Show of Hands,

• Nye by Martyn Joseph,

• Jack Ketch — Blackbeards Tea Party,

Best Album,

New Anything by Leverett,


From Here by Stick in the Wheel


Reprobates by Blackbeards Tea Party


Salvor by False Lights



Best Gig or Set,

Donovan @ Acoustic Stage, Glastonbury

Christy Moore @ Acoustic Stage, Glastonbury

False Lights @ Trowbridge Village Pump Festival

Gaz Brookfield and Hobo Jones @ Port of Call, Bristol

Jez Hellard @ Priddy Folk Festival



Overall Favourite Performer, 

2015 – Gaz Brookfield,

with thanks to

3 Daft Monkeys, Andy Cutting, Dick Gaughan, Ange Hardy, Belinda O Hooley, Bellowhead, Blair Dunlop, Bob Dylan, Bob Fox, Calico Jack, Chris Wood, Christy Moore, Dan Walsh, Dave Swarbrick, Donovan, Eliza Carthy , Firepit Collective, Fishermen’s Friends, Furrow Collective, Gaz Brookfield, Gilmore and Roberts, Hiedi Tidow, Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs, Jackie Oats , Jim Boyes, Jim Causley, Jim Moray, Leverett, Lucy Farrel, Lucy Ward, Luke Jackson, Lynched, Mad Dog Mcrea, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson,, Martyn Joseph, , Maz O’Connor, Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, Nancy Kerr, Nine Tree Stumblers, Oysterband, Ralph McTell, Roaring Trowman, Said the Maiden, Sam Carter , Sam Lee, Steeley Span, Steve Knightley, Stick in the Wheel, The Roaring Trowman, Tom Paxton, Ushti Baba

The Bristol Folk Festival, The Black Swan Folk Weekend; the Glastonbury Festival, The Trowbridge Village Pump Folk Festival, the Priddy Folk Festival, the Lichfield Folk Festival

St Georges, The Folk House, Colston Hall, Chapel Arts.







still missing Folkwaves

forget the Radio2 awards

never mind the Hugos

it's time for

The 2015 Monty Awards

for the best folk music in Bristol and the rest of the universe, as chosen by a committee of bloggers and podcasters living in my house