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Winners

This year's awards see the addition of the Radio 2 Folk Awards Hall of Fame, recognising the special contribution of an individual to the world of folk music; someone whose impact and influence has had a lasting impression.

The first entrant to be inducted into the Hall of Fame will be Victorian song and dance collector Cecil Sharp - widely regarded as a key figure who helped lay the foundations for the first folk revival in the early 20th century.

Read on for details of the rest of the winners of the 2014 Folk Awards:

Lifetime Achievement Award Winners:

Good Tradition Award: Cambridge Folk Festival

Eddie Barcan & Joan Wollard collected this award recognising fifty years of promoting folk music.

Best Duo: Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin

Nominees:

  • Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson
  • Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
  • Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita
  • Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin

Best Traditional Track: Willie of Winsbury - Ana茂s Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer

Nominees:

  • Codi Angor 鈥� Georgia Ruth
  • Les Bras de Mer 鈥� Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita
  • Mary Macdonald鈥檚 鈥� Rant
  • Willie of Winsbury - Ana茂s Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer

Musician of the Year: Aidan O鈥橰ourke

Nominees:

  • Aidan O鈥橰ourke
  • Will Pound
  • Martin Simpson
  • Sam Sweeney

Horizon Award: Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

Nominees:

  • Olivia Chaney
  • Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
  • Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
  • Georgia Ruth

麻豆社 Radio 2 Young Folk Award: The Mischa Macpherson Trio

Nominees:

  • Hattie Briggs
  • Gentlemen of Few
  • Granny鈥檚 Attic
  • The Mischa Macpherson Trio

Best Original Song: Two Ravens 鈥� Lisa Knapp

Nominees:

  • Love鈥檚 For Babies and Fools 鈥� Linda Thompson
  • None the Wiser 鈥� Chris Wood
  • Swimming in the Longest River 鈥� Olivia Chaney
  • Two Ravens 鈥� Lisa Knapp

Best Album: The Full English 鈥� The Full English

As voted for by listeners to 麻豆社 Radio 2

  • Child Ballads 鈥� Ana茂s Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
  • The Full English 鈥� The Full English
  • Hidden Seam 鈥� Lisa Knapp
  • Vagrant Stanzas 鈥� Martin Simpson
  • Won鈥檛 Be Long Now 鈥� Linda Thompson

Best Group

Nominees:

  • Breabach
  • The Full English
  • Lau
  • Melrose Quartet

Folk Singer of the Year: Bella Hardy

Nominees

  • Bella Hardy
  • Fay Hield
  • Lisa Knapp
  • Lucy Ward