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As announced on the Mike Harding Show last night, the NOMINATIONS for the BBC Radio 2 FOLK AWARDS are:

FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR
Chris Wood; Eliza Carthy ; Julie Fowlis; Karine Polwart

BEST DUO
Bob Fox & Stu Luckley; Chris While & Julie Matthews; Megson; Spiers & Boden

BEST GROUP
Bellowhead; Faustus; Lau; Mawkin:Causley

BEST ALBUM
Dreams of Breathing Underwater Eliza Carthy; Low Culture Jim Moray; This Earthly Spell Karine Polwart; Trespasser Chris Wood

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
All You Pretty Girls Andy Partridge (performed by Jim Moray)
Come Down Jehovah Chris Wood (performed by Chris Wood)
Mr Magnifico Eliza Carthy/Ben Ivitsky (performed by Eliza Carthy)
The Cottagers Reply Frank Mansell/Chris Wood (performed by Chris Wood)

BEST TRADITIONAL TRACK
Fakenham Fair Bellowhead; Lucy Wan Jim Moray; The Lady of York Chris Wood; The Lark in the Morning Jackie Oates

HORIZON AWARD
Bella Hardy; Jackie Oates; Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller; The Shee

MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
John McCusker; Martin Simpson; Phil Beer; Tom McConville

BEST LIVE ACT
Bellowhead; The Demon Barbers; Lau; Seth Lakeman

The tenth annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards will be held in London on Monday 2 February 2009.
Mike Harding presents highlights from this celebration of the best in folk and acoustic music on Wednesday 4 February.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/event/folkawards2009/

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The Latest Reviews - November 2008
http://www.netrhythms.co.uk/reviews.html

Abbie Lathe & The Lovelies - Stargazing (Curlew)
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain (Warner)
Ray Lamontagne - Gossip On The Grain (14th Floor)
Essie Jain - The Inbetween (Leaf)
Esther O'Connor - Right Here (Redhed)
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind (Music Maker)
Chris Duarte Group - Vantage Point (Provogue)
Tom Bliss - The Whisperer (Slipjig Music)
Society Of Imaginary Friends - Sadness Is A Bridge To Love (SOIF Music)
Various Artists - Far, Far From Ypres: Songs, Poems And Music Of World War One (Greentrax)
Jon Lacey - Lost In This Beautiful World (Winding River)
Catherine MacLellan - Church Bell Blues (True North)
Marc Ford & The Neptune Blues Club - Marc Ford & The Neptune Blues Club (Provogue)
Ruthie Foster - The Phenomenal (Proper Records)
Pete Morton - Casa Albierta Volume 1 (Further)
Dusty Springfield - Gold (Mercury/Universal)
La Caravane Passe - Velkom, Plèchti! (Me & My Other Records)
The Duhks - Fast Paced World (Sugar Hill)
Wineskin - The Great American Album (Own Label)
Robb Johnson & The Irregulars - Love & Death & Politics (Irregular)
Bob Fox & Stu Luckley - Thirty Years On (Bob Fox Music)
The Copper Family - Coppers At Christmas (Coppersongs, no catalogue number)
Hayley Hutchinson - Love Songs For The Enemy (Haylo Media)
Various Artists aka - The Blind Jack Band (LimboLabel)
Muldoon's Picnic - Ginham Down (Own Label)
The Demon Barbers - +24 db (Own Label)
John Conolly - The Grumpy Old Men Of Old England (Own Label)
Shirley & Dolly Collins - The Harvest Years (EMI)
Brother Crow - Hollow Hills (Brother Crow Records)
Various Artists - The Pigeon On The Gate (Veteran)
Brooks Williams - Guitar Groove: A Session With Brook Williams DVD (Woodhall Music)

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Today's NETRHYTHMS Newsletter was prepared whilst listening to the just-released DVD: Transatlantic Sessions - Original series complete - by Bain/Douglas/Harris (Whirlie Records). A most wonderful musical experience for the musicians taking part - and this viewer. Highlights? See the McGarrigle Sisters with a very young Rufus Wainwright; John Martyn with Danny Thompson; Emmylou Harris with Iris Dement & Mary Black - and so much more you'll need to buy it for yourself as a Christmas present. We'll bring you a full review soon.

Take care - and enjoy the music

Sue Cavendish, Editor
www.NetRhythms.com