We are delighted to announce that as chosen by our LCM Facebook Group members Ange Hardy wins our LCM award for 'Best Live Act' in 2017.
Ange Hardy is a most remarkable singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, the kind that writes songs which are so classic you think they have existed in the folk cannon for centuries. Ange is also unique as she is the only folk performer we know to use a loop station (called Mr. Miyagi), which she does to great effect. Her highly anticipated and recently released album 'Bring Back Home' is already receiving high praise. It's not too hard to understand why.
Our runners-up this year are the all-star Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, who are rapidly becoming one of the 'must see' live bands on the festival circuit.
Our LCM Top 20
- (1) Ange Hardy
- (2) Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys
- (3) Kim Lowings & The Greenwood
- (4) Tobias Ben Jacob & Lukas Drinkwater
- (5) Daria Kulesh
- (6) The Young'Uns
- (7) Said The Maiden
- (8) Company Of Players
- (9) Gilmore & Roberts
- (10) Emily Mae Winters
- (10) Show Of Hands
- (10) Emily Barker
- (13) Luke Jackson
- (14) Hattie Briggs
- (14) Fred's House
- (16) Merry Hell
- (17) Ninebarrow
- (18) Edgelarks
- (18) Minnie Birch
- (20) Lady Maisery
- (20) Kadia
We are delighted to announce that the 2015 LCM Award for Best album is awarded to Esteesee by Ange Hardy. Congratulations again Ange on a great album and a very successful 2015. With Ange's new partnership with Lukas Drinkwater and new projects on the horizon, we are sure that this success will continue into 2016.
Huge congratulations also to Tracey Browne and Raevennan Husbandes for securing the No. 2 position. East by Northwest is also another gem of an album, well worth adding to your music collection.
Thank you everyone who voted for your favourite album of the year.
The final results are;-
#1 Ange Hardy - Esteesee (AOTM Sep)
#2 Tracey Browne & Rae Husbandes - East by Northwest (AOTM Feb)
#3 Amy Goddard - Burn & Glow.
#4 Steve Pledger - Striking Matches In The Wind
#5 Hattie Briggs - Red & Gold (AOTM May)
#6 Paper Aeroplanes - Joy (AOTM Apr)
#7 Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin - Watershed (AOTM Oct)
#8 Jason Isbell - More Than Free
Minnie Birch - Floudering
#10 Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman - Tomorrow Will Follow Today
Black Feathers - Soaked to the Bone.
We would like to give an special LCM Group Award for Best Debut album of 2015 jointly to Hattie Briggs for 'Red & Gold' and Minnie Birch for 'Floundering'.
We would also like to give another special LCM Group Award for Best EP again jointly to Jess Morgan for 'The Bournemouth EP' and to Hattie Whitehead for 'Home'.
2015 was another excellent year for music, with Folk, Country and Singer-Songwriters genres doing partically well. All the nominees in our final list have produced some very good albums and all are worth exploring. We are honoured to have so many talent musicians as part of our FB Group.
