BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award explained

BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award
Country:United Kingdom
Former Name:Young Tradition Award
Network:BBC Radio 2
Holder:Maddie Morris
Year:1998
Year2:2019

The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award is an annual competition for young folk musicians in the United Kingdom. It was first awarded in 1988 as the Young Tradition Award, taking its present name in 1998. Recent winners of the award include Brighde Chaimbeul, Talisk and Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar.

Competition

The Young Tradition Award was a competition for young players of traditional music which was awarded annually between 1988 and 1996. BBC presenter Jim Lloyd wanted to get funding and publicity for young folk musicians in the same way that young classical musicians were helped by the BBC Young Musician award, and in 1988 he created the Young Tradition Award with a grant of £500 from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. The title was a tribute to the 1960s folk group The Young Tradition.[1]

The following year the award was adopted by the BBC programme Folk On 2 which Lloyd presented. Over the next six years, competitors included Carlene Anglim, Damien Barber, Pauline Cato, MacLaine Colston, Luke Daniels, Ingrid Henderson and Catriona MacDonald.In 1994 Lloyd wrote that the Award had been expanded to include traditional singers as well as instrumentalists, restricted to professional or semi-professional artists, and associated with a bursary of £1,000.Lloyd retired from the BBC at the end of 1997, and a Young Tradition big band including all the previous winners performed on his final Folk On 2 programme.[2] [3]

The BBC recreated an award from 1998, calling it the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. Until 2005, the competition was run by Folkworks on behalf of the BBC.[4] The entry criteria in 2005 were that the event was "open to anyone aged between fifteen and twenty, performing as a band, duo or soloist and performing traditional and acoustic music with roots in any culture", and these criteria have remained largely unchanged in subsequent years.[5] The short-listed finalists are invited to a residential weekend, as part of which they will perform in a public concert at which the winner is chosen by a judging panel.

Since 2011 the winner of the Young Folk Award has been announced at the main BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, which are broadcast on BBC Radio 2 with some highlights also televised. However the selection process for the Young Folk Award remains independent.

Young Folk Award finalists (1998–present)

2019
  • Maddie Morris
  • The selection process changed again for the 2019 award. There were eight shortlisted acts, but only the winner was officially announced.[6] Some of the finalists have identified themselves, including Jon Doran.[7]
    2018
    2017
    2016
    2015
    2014
    2013
    2012
    2011
  • The number of finalists was reduced from six to four this year.
    2010
    2009
    2008
    2007
    2006
    2004/5
    2003
    2002
    2001
    2000
    1999
  • 422[8]
    1998
  • Tim Van Eyken[9] [8]

    Young Tradition Award finalists (1988–1996)

    Information about the nominees in the earlier years is scarce.

    1996
    1995
    1994
  • Kathryn Roberts[10]
    1993
  • Carlene Anglim[11]
    1992
  • Luke Daniels[12]
    1991
  • Catriona MacDonald[13]
  • Finalists this years included Saul Rose.[14]
    1990
  • Ingrid Henderson[15]
    1989
  • Simon Thoumire[16]
  • Thoumire notes that the finalists included Becky Taylor, and Coxon's article quotes her.[17] Damien Barber was also a finalist.[18]
    1988
  • Lynn Tocker
  • Thoumire relates that he met duo partner Ian Carr among the finalists of the first competition, and Coxson's article quotes Andy Cutting on his participation. [19]

    See also

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Young Trads . . June 1994 . Lloyd . Jim . 27 . 132.
    2. A Celebration of Young Tradition . 1997-11-06 . . 134 . 3849.
    3. Last of the Young Tradition play Jim Lloyd out in style! . Irish Music Magazine . December 1997 . 28 October 2020.
    4. Web site: Young Folk Award 2004/5: About the award . . 22 October 2020.
    5. Web site: Radio 2's Young Folk Award 2019 – Terms and Conditions . . 22 October 2020.
    6. Web site: BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS 2019 NOMINEES ANNOUNCED . . 28 October 2020 . 1 August 2019.
    7. Web site: Artist signing: Jon Doran . Ciaran Algar management . 28 October 2020 . 6 November 2019.
    8. Web site: Young Folk Awards 2007: Previous Winners . . 20 October 2020.
    9. Web site: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2011 winners announced . BBC Press Office . 20 October 2020 . 8 February 2011.
    10. Howley . Mel . CD review of Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts . 12 . The Living Tradition . 28 October 2020 . 1995.
    11. Web site: Moll . Michael . FolkWorld CD Reviews . FolkWorld.de . 28 October 2020 . 5 . July 1998.
    12. Web site: McLellan . Mel . Reviews: Above the Bellow . . 28 October 2020 . March 2005.
    13. Web site: Larsen . Mary . Catriona MacDonald: Respecting Shetland's Fiddling Legacy . Fiddler Magazine . 28 October 2020 . Fall 1997.
    14. BBC Genome project . Jim Lloyd with Folk On 2 . . 25 February 1993 . 3608 . 96 . 28 October 2020.
    15. Jim Lloyd with Folk on 2 . 28 October 2020 . . 18 April 1991 . 102 . 3514 . the Young Tradition Award Winner, Ingrid Henderson.
    16. News: Gilchrist . Jim . A reel reward . . 2021-01-06 . . 2001-01-10 . . 15 . he won the 1989 BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award.
    17. Web site: Thoumire . Simon . Simon Thoumire . Back in the day... . 28 October 2020 . 21 May 2013.
    18. Web site: Damien Barber celebrating 30 years in Folk, launches new four piece ensemble . Spiral Earth . 3 November 2020 . 12 May 2019.
    19. Coxson . Sarah . Young, Gifted and Trad . . January 1990 . 79/80 . 23–27.

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