Folk Album of the Year Award Gala: Highlights
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Re-live the musical highlights from the spectacular Folk Album of the Year Award Gala at Rochdale Town Hall, with performances from Barry Kerr, Cynefin, Edith WeUtonga, Grace Stewart-Skinner, The Gigspanner Big Band, Joshua Burnside, Peggy Seeger, Poor Creature and Spafford Campbell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to the magnificent surroundings of Rochdale Town Hall. |
| 0:21.7 | My name is Matthew Bannister and I am the host of the Folk on Foot podcast, |
| 0:25.5 | and I'm delighted to be joined by Lynette Faye to host this very first folk album of the Year Award gala. |
| 0:32.4 | Woo-hoo! |
| 0:33.7 | Hey! |
| 0:36.0 | Delighted to be here, Matthew, Banachdin Neffield of Padreg Padigart very happy St Patrick's day to you |
| 0:41.0 | and the same to you and I'm glad you're spending it with us well I had to because I am a juror I'm on the jury |
| 0:47.9 | and we had the very very difficult task of choosing a winner this afternoon there There were a couple of hours of deliberations, |
| 0:56.3 | debates and discussions. They're all sitting right here in front of me. I want to say it was |
| 1:02.4 | heated, it was robust, it was all of those things, but yeah, it was really, really difficult. |
| 1:07.1 | But I think we have nine fabulous nominees, and the winner will be announced a little |
| 1:12.1 | later on. |
| 1:12.6 | But before that, we have the amazing prospect of performances from all nine of those performing |
| 1:18.5 | artists. |
| 1:19.7 | Just to remind you, they are Barry Kerr for Curlie's Cry. |
| 1:23.6 | Thank you. cry. |
| 1:33.0 | Kenevin for Shimley. |
| 1:41.4 | Edith Wigitonga for Varie Passy. |
| 1:48.8 | Gig Spanner Big Band for Turnstone. |
| 1:56.3 | Grace Stewart Skinner for Ocky-speaking Oki. Joshua Burnside for Teeth of Time |
| 2:04.2 | Peggy Seeger for teleology |
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