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Fatea Awards Shortlists
Fatea is proud to announce the shortlists for the Fatea Awards. The awards are nominated by the Fatea team and recognise excellence over 2013.
The awards come with plenty of kudos and merit, but sadly no big tv show, speeches and trophies. This year though they do come with their own awards show, which will be broadcast on www.acoustic-spectrum.co.uk starting at 8pm on Wednesday 8th of January.
Each award of a shortlist of three and we congratulate all artists on our shortlist as well as the many others that were nominated and every singer-songwriter and band that released music or performed live during 2013.
No artist is allowed to win more than one award and all have featured in the magazine during the last year.
We also have three special awards. The Tradition Award is presented to the act that have traditional folk at the root of their sound and use it to inspire new songs, tunes and arrangements. The Innovation Award is presented for a context or concept that widens the appeal of roots based music or brings a different thought process to it. The Lifetime Achievement Award speaks for it's self
In addition to the nominated awards we will be announcing the winners of our festival awards. This year instead of having a single festival award, Fatea is recognising the diversity of festivals throughout the UK and will be announcing the winners of the five categories listed below.
The shortlists are listed in alphabetical order.
Album Of The Year 2013 Nominees
Chase The Night - Sean Taylor
Fire & Fortune - Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Tooth And Nail - Billy Bragg
Single/EP/Mini Album Of The Year 2013 Nominees
A Scene Of Plenty - Keston Cobbler's Club
Chasing Tales - Jo Bywater
My Own Little Piece Of Sky - Marina Florance
Track/Song Of The Year 2013 Nominees
Anny Bonny - Jess Vincent
Shipping Song - Lisa Knapp
The Dark Morris Song - Steeleye Span
Debut Album Of The Year 2013 Nominees
Fabian Holland - Fabian Holland
Lay Your Dark Low - Salt House
Out Of The Black - Tiki Black
Instrumental Album Of The Year 2013 Nominees
Cartography - Threepenny Bit
Charge - Monster Ceilidh
VAMM - VAMM
Female Vocalist Of The Year 2013 Nominees
Ange Hardy
Emily Barker
Lucy Ward
Male Vocalist Of The Year 2013 Nominees
Chris Wood
Gavin Davenport
Reg Meuross
Band/Duo Of The Year 2013 Nominees
Bellowhead
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Roving Crows
Instrumentalist Of The Year 2013 Nominees
Sam Sweeney
Tim Edey
Will Pound
Innovation 2013 Nominees
Folkstock Arts Foundation
forestLIVE
Songs From The Shed
Tradition 2013 Nominees
The Beautiful Old Turn Of The Century Songs - Various Artists
The Full English
The New Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs
Festival Of The Year 2013 Catagories
Urban Festival
Country Festival
Indoor Festival
Village Festival
Interactive Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award
Announced on the night
Thank You
2013 was an exceptional and busy year. Between them, and by someway, the Fatea team reviewed more albums, gigs and festivals than we have ever done before and we still struggled to keep up in what was an exceptional year for music.
We maintained our support for Acoustic Spectrum, providing shows and content generally, getting artists heard is a priority with mainsteam nedia still ignoring the growth in acoustic music. www.acoustic-spectrum.co.uk/as-radio has enjoyed increased audiences across the UK, Canada and Scandinavia particularly.
Similarly this has been the most successful year ever for the Fatea Showcase Sessions, our virtual coverdisk. More of you than ever have downloaded the sessions and thanks to the great support that we've had from local and internet radio and you mentioning the sessions on Twitter and Facebook the featured bands are reaching more people than ever before.
Fatea Magazine is about getting artists heard, giving them a voice so you can become aware of them and listen to their music. Without those acts and your giving them a chance, the world would be a highly boring place. The Fatea team would like to thank both acts and music fans for your contribution to the music scene and giving us a reason to exist.
On a personal note, I'd like to thank everyone that has contributed to Fatea during our busiest year ever. Without your help and support we couldn't have featured anything like the number of acts that we have and Fatea wouldn't be what it is and continues to be.
We've got some exciting plans for 2014 and will bring you news of them during the year. In the meantime here's to a great twelve months past and to those still to come. If you would like to be involved in the Fatea story as a writer, reviewer or photographer please get in touch.
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