Final Nominees Announced for Second Annual Folk Alliance Awards

Press release
Source: Cash Edwards

Nominees Announced for the Second Annual Folk Alliance Awards. The Folk Alliance Awards are to honor merit and achievement within the Folk Music field. The award recipients will be recognized at the 19th annual North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance's international business conference in Memphis, Wednesday, February 21, 2007, at the Cook Convention Center.

The final nominees for the Second Annual Folk Alliance Awards are:

SONG OF THE YEAR
"Bring Them Home", Burns Sisters
"People Look Around", Catie Curtis and Mark Erelli
"Seems So Real", Chris Smither
"Pony", Diana Jones
"Folk Is the New Black", Janis Ian

TRADITIONAL RELEASE OF THE YEAR
Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome-The Seeger Sessions
Crooked Still, Shaken By a Low Sound
Les Tireux d'Roches, Papier y Ciseaux
Madrigaia, Pleiades
Pine Leaf Boys, Pine Leaf Boys Two Steps

CONTEMPORARY RELEASE OF THE YEAR
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, Seven Is the Number
Greg Greenway, Weightless
Jeffrey Foucault, Ghost Repeater
John Gorka, Writing in the Margins
Wailin' Jennys, Firecracker

TRADITIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Guy Davis
James Keelaghan
Natalie MacMaster
Odetta
Old Crow Medicine Show

CONTEMPORARY ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Chris Smither
Darrell Scott
Greg Brown
Janis Ian
Wailin' Jennys

EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Amy Speace
Anais Mitchell
Crooked Still
Diana Jones
Pat Wictor

WORLD MUSIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Kiran Ahluwana
Lache Cercel and His Roma Swing Ensemble
Lila Downs
Mamadou Diabate
Marisa Monte

FOLK BOOKING AGENCY
Fleming Artists
Folklore Productions
The Granata Agency
Mongrel Music
Roots Agency

SMALL FOLK VENUE (under 250 capacity)
Cactus Café, Austin, Texas
Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
Caffe Lena, Sarasota Springs, New York
Club Passim, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hugh's Room, Toronto, Ontario

LARGE FOLK VENUE (over 250 capacity)
The Ark, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Birchmere, Arlington, Virginia
Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, Massachusetts
Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, Illinois

FOLK FESTIVAL
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival
Kerrville Folk Festival
Philadelphia Folk Festival
Winnipeg Folk Music Festival

FOLK DJ
Dick Pleasants, WUMB
Gene Shay, WXPN
Rich Warren, WFMT
Susan Forbes Hansen, WHUS
Suzanne MiIlsaps, KRCL

Folk Alliance Mission: The North American Folk Music And Dance Alliance exists to foster and promote traditional, contemporary and multicultural folk music, dance, and related performing arts in North America. The folk Alliance seeks to strengthen organizational and individual initiatives in folk music and dance through education, networking, advocacy, and professional and field development.

For more information or to register for the business conference please go to www.Folk.org or call 901/522-1170.