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.







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