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Roy Harper, Billy Bragg to get BBC Folk Awards


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"Singers Billy Bragg and Roy Harper are to be honoured with lifetime achievement accolades at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards later this month".

"Bragg will receive the Roots Award in recognition of his 30-year career as a socially-conscious singer-songwriter".

"Harper, a folk rocker who started out in the 1960s and has influenced a generation of alternative acoustic musicians, will also be recognized".

"The ceremony takes place at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on 30 January".

"Shetland fiddler Aly Bain and Dougie MacLean, who wrote the Scottish anthem Caledonia, will also receive lifetime achievement accolades".

"Now in its 14th year, the event will be hosted by Mark Radcliffe and Julie Fowlis. Singers Sam Lee, Jim Moray and Karine Polwart lead the field in the competitive categories with three nominations each".

http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-21166870

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Hat's off to Harper!!!

The Folk Awards will be broadcast live at 19.00hr in the UK on Radio 2 and the Red Button on digital tv. It may be available live via the BBC website. As much as I like Mark Radcliffe, the way the BBC treated former Folk Music presenter Mike Harding was appalling.

There...fixed it for you. Now it's in some form of readable English.

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Hat's off to Harper!!!

There...fixed it for you. Now it's in some form of readable English.

darn tootin

Did anyone in the UK watch the Folk Awards via the red button on FREEVIEW , I could n't get any volume .total silence (rang up a friend his was ok) , watched a Bon Jovi session today it was fine

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