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0:00:35 > 0:00:43GLOBAL FUSION MUSIC

0:02:30 > 0:02:36GLOBAL FUSION MUSIC

0:03:40 > 0:03:49APPLAUSE

0:03:49 > 0:03:53Hello and a very warm welcome to the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

0:03:53 > 0:04:00live from London in the Royal Albert Hall.

0:04:00 > 0:04:05Very much the Nettlebed Folk Club of the Kensington area.

0:04:05 > 0:04:08The folk awards are Radio 2's 18th annual celebration of folk,

0:04:08 > 0:04:10roots and acoustic music.

0:04:10 > 0:04:14We are going to showcase the very best work by folk musicians

0:04:14 > 0:04:20from the past 12 months and pay tribute to some masterful

0:04:20 > 0:04:23artists who have dedicated their careers to folk and roots music.

0:04:23 > 0:04:27As ever we have an incredible assortment, a melange,

0:04:27 > 0:04:33a smorgasbord of live music lined up.

0:04:33 > 0:04:36OK, let's have our first award of the evening.

0:04:36 > 0:04:39This is for Best Duo and to present the awards is the Oscar-winning

0:04:39 > 0:04:42director and animator behind some of film and TV's much loved

0:04:42 > 0:04:50claymation characters including Morph and Gregg Wallace.

0:04:50 > 0:04:51Please welcome Peter Lord.

0:04:51 > 0:05:00APPLAUSE

0:05:06 > 0:05:07Who designed this trophy?

0:05:07 > 0:05:16I'm just saying...

0:05:16 > 0:05:18They've been ripping off Morph for about 20 years

0:05:18 > 0:05:21and I haven't seen a penny.

0:05:21 > 0:05:28The best duo is Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton.

0:05:28 > 0:05:29Thank you very much.

0:05:29 > 0:05:32It's quite embarrassing, I was wearing the same shirt

0:05:32 > 0:05:35that was on the photos there.

0:05:35 > 0:05:37Now to some more live music.

0:05:37 > 0:05:41This next group released their debut album in 2016 and are nominated

0:05:41 > 0:05:43for the Horizon Award, a product of Orkney's thriving

0:05:43 > 0:05:47and nurturing musical community.

0:05:47 > 0:05:53Please welcome Fara.

0:06:15 > 0:06:19# Three Fishers went sailing out into the west

0:06:19 > 0:06:23# Into the west as the sun came up

0:06:23 > 0:06:26# Each thought of the woman that loved him the best

0:06:26 > 0:06:33# Children stood watching them out of the town

0:06:33 > 0:06:40# Oooooo

0:06:45 > 0:06:48# Oooooo

0:06:48 > 0:06:52# Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower

0:06:52 > 0:06:57# And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down

0:06:57 > 0:07:02# They looked at the squall and they looked at the shower

0:07:02 > 0:07:05# And the night-wrack came rolling in ragged and brown

0:07:05 > 0:07:14# The night-wrack came rolling in ragged and brown

0:07:21 > 0:07:23# For the storms be sudden and the waters be deep

0:07:23 > 0:07:33# And the harbour bar be moaning

0:07:33 > 0:07:35# Ooooo

0:07:39 > 0:07:48# Ooooo

0:08:05 > 0:08:08# Three corpses lay out in the shining sands

0:08:08 > 0:08:12# And the morning gleam as the tide went down

0:08:12 > 0:08:17# The women were weeping and wringing their hands

0:08:17 > 0:08:26# For those who would never come back to the town

0:08:28 > 0:08:32# Men must work and women must weep

0:08:32 > 0:08:35# For there is little to earn and many to keep

0:08:35 > 0:08:44# And the harbour bar be moaning

0:08:44 > 0:08:48# Men must work and women must weep

0:08:48 > 0:08:51# For the sooner it's over

0:08:51 > 0:08:54# The sooner to sleep

0:08:54 > 0:08:56# And goodbye to the bar and its moaning

0:08:56 > 0:09:05# Goodbye to the bar and its moaning.#

0:09:07 > 0:09:11APPLAUSE

0:09:22 > 0:09:26Now, for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award.

0:09:26 > 0:09:30To present this award, a founding member of a folkrock

0:09:30 > 0:09:33institution, Fairport Convention.

0:09:33 > 0:09:36Fairport themselves were mostly teenagers when they started in 1967

0:09:36 > 0:09:40but they now boast a combined age of 328.

0:09:40 > 0:09:43Please welcome Simon Nicholl.

0:09:43 > 0:09:50APPLAUSE

0:09:53 > 0:09:58Thank you, Mark and Julie for reminding me of how

0:09:58 > 0:10:02being in Fairport has taken me from O levels, both of them,

0:10:02 > 0:10:04to a different world, one now including statins

0:10:04 > 0:10:08and bus passes.

0:10:08 > 0:10:11The turn that has won the 2017 BBC Young Folk Awards

0:10:11 > 0:10:19are Josie Duncan Pablo Lafuente.

0:10:28 > 0:10:32Now for the first of tonight's Lifetime Achievement Awards,

0:10:32 > 0:10:35which is given to recognise really outstanding contributions.

0:10:35 > 0:10:40You probably gathered that from the title of the awards.

0:10:40 > 0:10:42The recipient is a singer songwriter guitarist originally from Glasgow

0:10:42 > 0:10:44but raised in Dorset.

0:10:44 > 0:10:47He now calls California his home.

0:10:47 > 0:10:50In the mid-60s, he compered at legendary Soho folk clubs

0:10:50 > 0:10:54like Les Cousins and Bungie's Folk Cellar.

0:10:54 > 0:10:56By the late 1970s he was topping the charts around the world.

0:10:56 > 0:10:59To present this award, one of the most recognisable voices

0:10:59 > 0:11:02in the history of British broadcasting, would you give a huge

0:11:02 > 0:11:03welcome to Tony Blackburn.

0:11:03 > 0:11:13APPLAUSE

0:11:13 > 0:11:17There is a reason why I'm here, because in the early 60s,

0:11:17 > 0:11:20Al Stewart was in my band, known as Tony Blackburn

0:11:20 > 0:11:29the Swinging Bells.

0:11:30 > 0:11:33He has owned up to appearing with Alan Parsons, Jimmy Page,

0:11:33 > 0:11:36Rick Wakeman, but as far as I know, he seems to have forgotten that

0:11:36 > 0:11:37actually, I was the one who gave him his chance,

0:11:39 > 0:11:48The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Al Stewart.

0:11:56 > 0:12:05# Fishing boats go out across the evening water

0:12:29 > 0:12:32# Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border

0:12:32 > 0:12:34# The wind whips up the waves so loud

0:12:34 > 0:12:35# The ghost moon sails among the clouds

0:12:35 > 0:12:43# And turns the rifles into silver on the border

0:12:49 > 0:12:52# On my wall, the colours of the maps are running

0:12:52 > 0:12:56# From Africa, the winds, they talk of changes coming

0:12:56 > 0:12:59# The torches flare up in the night

0:12:59 > 0:13:02# The hand that sets the farms alight

0:13:02 > 0:13:08# Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border

0:13:10 > 0:13:12# In the village where I grew up

0:13:12 > 0:13:20# Nothing seems the same

0:13:25 > 0:13:27# Still you never see the change

0:13:27 > 0:13:28# From day to day

0:13:39 > 0:13:41# No one notices the customs slip away

0:13:41 > 0:13:43# Late last night the rain was knocking on my window

0:13:43 > 0:13:46# I moved across the darkened room and in the lamp-glow

0:13:46 > 0:13:48# I thought I saw down in the street

0:13:48 > 0:13:50# The spirit of the century

0:13:50 > 0:13:53# Telling us that we're all standing

0:13:53 > 0:13:59# On the border

0:13:59 > 0:14:01# In the islands where I grew up

0:14:01 > 0:14:02# Nothing seems the same

0:14:02 > 0:14:05# It's just the patterns that remain

0:14:05 > 0:14:09# An empty shell

0:14:09 > 0:14:14# But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well

0:14:23 > 0:14:29# The fishing boats go out across the evening water

0:14:29 > 0:14:38# Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border

0:14:38 > 0:14:40# The wind whips up the waves so loud

0:14:40 > 0:14:42# The ghost moon sails among the clouds

0:14:42 > 0:14:44# Turns the rifles into silver

0:14:44 > 0:14:54# On the border

0:14:54 > 0:15:06# On the border

0:15:18 > 0:15:23Thank you very much.

0:15:23 > 0:15:31Now to the award for Best Traditional Track.

0:15:31 > 0:15:35To present the award, someone I first saw at the Manchester Apollo

0:15:35 > 0:15:38in 1979 as part of a Two Tone package tour, and so impressed

0:15:38 > 0:15:42was I by the sound and style of her band The Selector,

0:15:42 > 0:15:49I formed semi-legendary Manchester ska act Bobsleigh and the Crestas,

0:15:49 > 0:15:59sales of whose debut album, it's hard to be precise on these

0:15:59 > 0:16:02things but they range between 13 at the lower end right

0:16:02 > 0:16:03up to 17.

0:16:03 > 0:16:06You're very best mood and stomping pleas for the original rude

0:16:06 > 0:16:07girl, Pauline Black.

0:16:07 > 0:16:13Well, my initial foray into music began in a folk club in Coventry,

0:16:13 > 0:16:22and those folkies embraced me and I embraced them.

0:16:22 > 0:16:27Indeed, my first paying gig was supporting Bert Jansch in 1978.

0:16:27 > 0:16:30I sang ten songs and I was paid ?10.

0:16:30 > 0:16:36I thought I had arrived.

0:16:36 > 0:16:38I've never lost my love for traditional folk

0:16:38 > 0:16:41and it is a great pleasure for me to present the award for Best

0:16:41 > 0:16:51Traditional Track to Daoiri Farrell.

0:17:07 > 0:17:17# Come all ye gallant poachers that ramble free of care

0:17:17 > 0:17:24# Who wander out on moonlight nights with your dog

0:17:24 > 0:17:34# And gun and snare

0:17:38 > 0:17:48# Oh the hare and lofty pheasant

0:17:50 > 0:18:00# You will have at your command

0:18:00 > 0:18:04# Not thinking on the last career spent

0:18:04 > 0:18:16# On Van Diemen's Land

0:18:29 > 0:18:39# Young Thomas Brown from in the town, Jack Murphy

0:18:41 > 0:18:53# And poor Joe were three

0:18:59 > 0:19:05# And straight away transported unto Van Diemen's Land

0:19:05 > 0:19:08# And the first day we landed there upon the fatal shore

0:19:08 > 0:19:12# the planters gathered around, might be 20 score, well

0:19:12 > 0:19:16# they ranked us up like horses and sold us out of hand

0:19:16 > 0:19:18# and they yoked us to the plough, brave boys

0:19:18 > 0:19:29# for to work Van Diemen's Land.

0:19:35 > 0:19:38# The cottages that we lived in, they are made of songs of theirs,

0:19:38 > 0:19:41# we have rotting straw for bedding, but we dared not say a word,

0:19:41 > 0:19:45# and we rigged our huts with firing and we slumber when we can,

0:19:45 > 0:19:48# for to keep those beasts at bay around Van Diemen's Land.

0:19:48 > 0:19:51# God bless our wives and families, likewise that happy shore,

0:19:51 > 0:19:53# that sweet isle of contentment that we shall see no more,

0:19:53 > 0:19:56# and for those wretched females, see them we seldom can,

0:19:56 > 0:19:59# there are 40 men to every woman on Van Diemen's Land

0:19:59 > 0:20:06# At nighttime when I'm slumbering, I have a pleasant dream,

0:20:06 > 0:20:16# that I'm sitting by a cool green lass down by a purling stream,

0:20:16 > 0:20:20# or I'm wandering through a meadow fair with my sweetheart by my hand

0:20:20 > 0:20:30# and I waken broken-hearted, still on Van Diemen's Land

0:20:33 > 0:20:38# For 14 years is a long, long time and that's our sentence run

0:20:38 > 0:20:44# for nothing but the poaching, it's all I've ever done

0:20:44 > 0:20:51# and I'd give up both my dog and gun and poaching every man

0:20:51 > 0:21:01# and I'd let go the harship still on Van Diemen's Land

0:21:04 > 0:21:11# If I had ?500 all laid out in my hand, well I'd give it up

0:21:11 > 0:21:16# for poaching if that I could command,

0:21:16 > 0:21:19# then I'd retire to Erin's isle

0:21:19 > 0:21:23# and I'd be a happy man

0:21:23 > 0:21:31# and I'd bid farewell to poaching likewise Van Diemen's Land

0:21:31 > 0:21:41# Yeah #.

0:21:53 > 0:22:00Thank you, thank you.

0:22:00 > 0:22:06Now it's time for the Folk Awards Hall of Fame.

0:22:06 > 0:22:09This year marks 50 years since the death of a true folk

0:22:09 > 0:22:18icon, Woody Guthrie.

0:22:18 > 0:22:22To pay tribute to Woody Guthrie, please welcome an Englishman,

0:22:22 > 0:22:27but someone who Woody's own daughter, Nora, called

0:22:27 > 0:22:33the punk incarnation of her father, it's Billy Bragg.

0:22:33 > 0:22:43Thank you very much.

0:22:46 > 0:22:49It's great that the Radio 2 Folk Awards are honouring

0:22:49 > 0:22:50Woody Guthrie here tonight.

0:22:50 > 0:22:52He was someone who was greatly influenced by the folk

0:22:52 > 0:22:56music of these islands, who once wrote how he'd learned

0:22:56 > 0:23:01from his Scottish descended great-grandmother the folk songs

0:23:01 > 0:23:04of the British Islands.

0:23:04 > 0:23:08He learned them through the oral tradition, he was at the far end

0:23:08 > 0:23:11of that Elizabethan balladeer tradition that went out from these

0:23:11 > 0:23:13islands, when people went across the Atlantic to build

0:23:13 > 0:23:17a new home in America and Canada.

0:23:17 > 0:23:19Conversely, he was the first real singer-songwriter, and certainly,

0:23:19 > 0:23:24the first alternative songwriter.

0:23:24 > 0:23:28He was also arguably the first punk rocker.

0:23:28 > 0:23:34I say that because he painted antifascist slogans on his guitars

0:23:34 > 0:23:3730, 40 years before the Clash thought about doing that.

0:23:37 > 0:23:47Woody's also, I think, the father of the topical song tradition.

0:23:49 > 0:23:51That we love so much in the folk audiences.

0:23:51 > 0:23:53The great thing is all these years later, 70, 80 years,

0:23:53 > 0:23:56after he wrote the songs, they still have great relevance

0:23:56 > 0:24:03to us today, such as this one.

0:24:03 > 0:24:09# I ain't got no home, I'm just a-roamin' 'round

0:24:09 > 0:24:20# Just a wandrin' worker, Who goes from town to town

0:24:21 > 0:24:31# And the police make it hard for me,

0:24:31 > 0:24:40# No matter where I go

0:24:40 > 0:24:47# And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

0:24:47 > 0:24:51# My brothers and my sisters are stranded on this road,

0:24:51 > 0:24:59# A long and dusty road that a million feet have trod

0:24:59 > 0:25:09# Rich man took my home and drove me from my door

0:25:13 > 0:25:15# And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

0:25:15 > 0:25:26# I ain't got no home in this world anymore

0:25:28 > 0:25:36# Was farmin' on the shares, and always I was poor

0:25:36 > 0:25:41# My crops leading into the banker's store

0:25:41 > 0:25:47# My wife took down and died all on the cabin floor

0:25:47 > 0:25:56# And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

0:25:59 > 0:26:07# No, I ain't got no home in this world anymore

0:26:07 > 0:26:10# I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn

0:26:10 > 0:26:13# I been working, mister

0:26:13 > 0:26:16# Since the day I was born

0:26:16 > 0:26:26# Now I worry all the time

0:26:26 > 0:26:28# Like I never did before

0:26:28 > 0:26:46# I ain't got no home in this world anymore

0:26:48 > 0:26:56# Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see

0:26:56 > 0:27:06# This world is such a great and a funny place to be

0:27:06 > 0:27:16# The gamblin' man is rich

0:27:16 > 0:27:19# and the workin' man is poor,

0:27:19 > 0:27:29# And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

0:27:29 > 0:27:39APPLAUSE in this world anymore

0:27:40 > 0:27:49Billy Bragg!

0:27:52 > 0:27:55Now, last year a new collection of songs were written to accompany

0:27:55 > 0:27:58an exhibition that took place at the V's Museum of Childhood.

0:27:58 > 0:28:02It explored the history of forced child migration when poor

0:28:02 > 0:28:05or orphaned children from the UK were sent to Canada and Australia

0:28:05 > 0:28:10in a scheme which has since been labelled shameful and misguided.

0:28:10 > 0:28:12Tonight we have a special performance of some of those songs

0:28:12 > 0:28:13to help highlight that story.

0:28:13 > 0:28:16The Ballads of Child Migration.

0:28:16 > 0:28:26APPLAUSE

0:28:27 > 0:28:28Migrant children who left Britain had very scant

0:28:28 > 0:28:30information often about their past.

0:28:30 > 0:28:32Often brothers and sisters were split up and sent

0:28:32 > 0:28:37to different places, sometimes different countries.

0:28:37 > 0:28:40Once overseas it was not uncommon for migrants to experience terrible

0:28:40 > 0:28:46cultures of abuse in institutions like the Fairbridge farm

0:28:46 > 0:28:48schools in Australia.

0:28:48 > 0:28:54Children were often beaten and mistreated in the name

0:28:54 > 0:28:56of religion, in a supposed attempt to cleanse their souls.

0:28:56 > 0:28:58Here's the voice of former child migrant Bob Taylor.

0:28:58 > 0:29:00We always copped a smack around the head.

0:29:00 > 0:29:01Or the ear.

0:29:01 > 0:29:05For something trivial.

0:29:05 > 0:29:07Without any warning whatsoever.

0:29:07 > 0:29:17And I can't stand being anywhere unless my back is to the wall.

0:29:18 > 0:29:21If I'm sitting in a restaurant I want to make sure I can see

0:29:21 > 0:29:23everybody because I still have that fear.

0:29:23 > 0:29:26# I stood on the shore in Southampton

0:29:26 > 0:29:31# Salt wind in my hair, a case in my hand

0:29:31 > 0:29:38# We were going to Western Australia

0:29:38 > 0:29:42# And it made me the man that I am

0:29:42 > 0:29:47# I am

0:29:47 > 0:29:54# It made me the man that I am

0:29:54 > 0:30:00# I don't like to talk about Fairbridge

0:30:00 > 0:30:03# What happened there I still don't understand

0:30:03 > 0:30:13# These days I sleep with the lights on

0:30:15 > 0:30:18# It made me the man that I am

0:30:18 > 0:30:21# I am

0:30:21 > 0:30:26# It made me the man that I am #.

0:30:26 > 0:30:30There are many ways to carry scars.

0:30:30 > 0:30:34The physical ones seem to heal but the psychological scars that

0:30:34 > 0:30:40are left with us are terribly hard.

0:30:40 > 0:30:45I cry a lot, still, because I believed religious people were kind.

0:30:45 > 0:30:53When a Mercy nun came on the TV to be interviewed and she had

0:30:53 > 0:30:56the gall to turn around and say they beat us so they

0:30:56 > 0:31:00could make us pure...

0:31:00 > 0:31:06It's just ridiculous.

0:31:06 > 0:31:10The voice of former child migrant Patricia Carlson.

0:31:10 > 0:31:17There are about 2000 former British child migrants still alive today

0:31:17 > 0:31:20and many bear mental scars which are as a result

0:31:20 > 0:31:25of being sent away from home at such a young age.

0:31:25 > 0:31:28Although public apologies have been made by both the British

0:31:28 > 0:31:34and Australian Prime Ministers, there's no easy way

0:31:34 > 0:31:36to ease the pain, the traumatic memories

0:31:36 > 0:31:40and a deep sense of loneliness that the migration schemes caused.

0:31:40 > 0:31:44These songs are dedicated to all former child migrants

0:31:44 > 0:31:46and of course we also think of the current generation of child

0:31:46 > 0:31:49migrants across the world, who are searching for a home

0:31:49 > 0:31:54and safety, today.

0:31:54 > 0:32:04# A hundred small suitcases sat in the dark

0:32:06 > 0:32:14# Nametagged and labelled and bound for Australia

0:32:14 > 0:32:21# Round up like soldier boys out on parade

0:32:21 > 0:32:31# Ready for sailing away

0:32:31 > 0:32:41# Small hands to carry them over the sea

0:32:41 > 0:32:50# With a life that for most of them they can't believe

0:32:50 > 0:32:51# They're bound for Canada

0:32:51 > 0:32:55# For better or worse

0:32:55 > 0:33:04# Small cases full of big dreams

0:33:13 > 0:33:23# What tiny treasures are hidden inside

0:33:25 > 0:33:34# A short lifetime's memories to take to Australia

0:33:34 > 0:33:43# A letter, photograph, a locket of hair

0:33:43 > 0:33:47# A reminder of someone who'll never be there

0:33:47 > 0:33:57# Small hands to carry them over the sea

0:34:02 > 0:34:07# The life that for most of them they can't believe

0:34:07 > 0:34:08# They're bound for paradise

0:34:08 > 0:34:10# For better or worse

0:34:10 > 0:34:18# Small cases full of big dreams

0:34:18 > 0:34:28# Small cases full of big dreams #.

0:34:52 > 0:35:02APPLAUSE

0:35:02 > 0:35:09The Ballads of Child Migration.

0:35:09 > 0:35:11With the Queensbridge Chamber Choir from Hackney.

0:35:11 > 0:35:13Give them a big round of applause.

0:35:13 > 0:35:14APPLAUSE

0:35:14 > 0:35:22The Best Album award.

0:35:22 > 0:35:24To present this award, a Grade A movie buff

0:35:24 > 0:35:27who was catapulted to fame after hosting a cult film corner

0:35:27 > 0:35:37during my late-night graveyard shift show on the now-defunct Radio 1.

0:35:41 > 0:35:42LAUGHTER

0:35:42 > 0:35:45He now has to settle for being the Observer's chief film

0:35:45 > 0:35:47critic and hosting a moderately popular film review show

0:35:47 > 0:35:48with someone called Simon Mayo.

0:35:48 > 0:35:51Thrice winner of the high barnet best kept quiff award,

0:35:51 > 0:35:52please welcome Mark Kermode!

0:35:52 > 0:35:57APPLAUSE

0:35:57 > 0:36:00Good evening.

0:36:00 > 0:36:02For the last 30 years I've played stand-up bass,

0:36:02 > 0:36:04double bass, in a skiffle band.

0:36:04 > 0:36:08LIGHT APPLAUSE

0:36:08 > 0:36:14That's the very definition of a ripple of applause.

0:36:14 > 0:36:18And I was going to say the thing about, I understand that spending

0:36:18 > 0:36:20three decades playing stand-up bass in a skiffle band makes

0:36:20 > 0:36:22you supremely unqualified to say anything at all about music.

0:36:22 > 0:36:23However...

0:36:23 > 0:36:26When I got here tonight, the very first thing that happened

0:36:26 > 0:36:29was that Billy Bragg came up and gave me a copy of his book,

0:36:29 > 0:36:31How Skiffle Changed The World.

0:36:31 > 0:36:34So, this is the moment to say, I'm Mark, I play skiffle and I'm

0:36:34 > 0:36:35not ashamed, all right.

0:36:35 > 0:36:42CHEERING

0:36:42 > 0:36:45The winner of the award tonight is, in fact, a collaboration.

0:36:45 > 0:36:48It's a hand across-the-board project that brought together ten very

0:36:48 > 0:36:55talented musicians mainly from England and Scotland.

0:36:55 > 0:36:58They got together on an island and they wondered about what it

0:36:58 > 0:36:59meant to be separated.

0:36:59 > 0:37:02And they produced something which is timely and beautiful and brilliant.

0:37:02 > 0:37:04That, ironically, brought them and us together.

0:37:04 > 0:37:14The winner of the award for Best Album is Songs Of Separation.

0:37:21 > 0:37:22CHEERING

0:37:22 > 0:37:25This project was supposed to last six days in 2015.

0:37:25 > 0:37:28These amazing women and some that haven't been able to be with us

0:37:28 > 0:37:30today came together to celebrate the differences between English

0:37:30 > 0:37:33and Scottish music.

0:37:33 > 0:37:37And music is the great connector.

0:37:37 > 0:37:40It's the thing that brings us together, so I guess

0:37:40 > 0:37:42what I want to say is, let's keep on connecting.

0:37:42 > 0:37:44APPLAUSE

0:37:44 > 0:37:49# There is a Whitehawk in the woods

0:37:49 > 0:37:59# Kills a man who drinks his blood...#

0:38:02 > 0:38:05It's got two harps on it.

0:38:05 > 0:38:11Wow.

0:38:11 > 0:38:18Thank you to everyone that I have ever played music with.

0:38:18 > 0:38:20And thank you to the people of London today that helped me

0:38:20 > 0:38:22on the Tube with my harp.

0:38:22 > 0:38:23You're great.

0:38:23 > 0:38:24Thank you very much. Cheers.

0:38:24 > 0:38:25APPLAUSE

0:38:25 > 0:38:28Time for some more music.

0:38:28 > 0:38:37Our next performer started singing on the London folk scene

0:38:37 > 0:38:38as a teenager in the mid-1950s.

0:38:38 > 0:38:41In 1959 she travelled with Texan song collector Alan Lomax

0:38:41 > 0:38:43to the southern states of America, collecting folk, blues

0:38:43 > 0:38:44and spiritual music, to create a resource

0:38:44 > 0:38:52that is valued to this day.

0:38:52 > 0:38:54She recorded many wonderful EPs and LPs of traditional English

0:38:54 > 0:38:57songs and has been called the secret Queen of England by admirers.

0:38:57 > 0:39:00Last year she released her wonderful new album Lodestar, her first

0:39:00 > 0:39:04recording in decades.

0:39:04 > 0:39:06And she's nominated tonight for both Folk Singer

0:39:06 > 0:39:12of the Year and Best Album.

0:39:12 > 0:39:15Singing Washed Ashore, I don't need to ask you for it,

0:39:15 > 0:39:16but your warmest welcome for Shirley Collins.

0:39:16 > 0:39:26APPLAUSE

0:39:27 > 0:39:28Thank you.

0:39:28 > 0:39:30In a small downland church on the South Downs,

0:39:30 > 0:39:33but close to the sea, if you walk through the graveyard

0:39:33 > 0:39:34there is a simple wooden cross.

0:39:34 > 0:39:37There's no name on it, just the words, washed

0:39:37 > 0:39:47ashore carved in it.

0:40:23 > 0:40:28# As a lady was walking down by the seaside

0:40:28 > 0:40:35# A poor drowned sailor she chanced there to spy

0:40:35 > 0:40:43# When first she saw the sailor he put her to a stand

0:40:43 > 0:40:53# For she knew it t'was her true love by the mark on his hand

0:40:57 > 0:41:00# In yonder green churchyard this couple was layed

0:41:00 > 0:41:08# And a stone for remembrance placed over their grave

0:41:08 > 0:41:13# Saying 'our joys they are all over

0:41:13 > 0:41:19# All pleasures are fled

0:41:19 > 0:41:29# We shall lie here forever, the grave is our bed' #.

0:42:48 > 0:42:49Thank you.

0:42:49 > 0:42:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:43:12 > 0:43:14The wonderful Shirley Collins singing again after more than 30

0:43:14 > 0:43:15years away from the stage.

0:43:15 > 0:43:25With fellow musicians Pete Cooper, David Arthur and Ian Kearey.

0:43:27 > 0:43:30Now we move onto the second of tonight's Lifetime

0:43:30 > 0:43:30Achievement Awards.

0:43:30 > 0:43:33Presented to the artists who have enriched the genre

0:43:33 > 0:43:34and our lives with their music.

0:43:34 > 0:43:37To present this award, I'm very pleased to introduce a singer,

0:43:37 > 0:43:38songwriter and producer who assembled some

0:43:38 > 0:43:41of the finest records of the Punk and New Wave era.

0:43:41 > 0:43:43And he's performed alongside this Lifetime Achievement Award winner

0:43:43 > 0:43:44on and off since the 1980s.

0:43:44 > 0:43:54Please welcome, still sporting a resplendent quiff, Nick Lowe.

0:43:57 > 0:43:59Ladies and gentlemen, there are thankfully a number

0:43:59 > 0:44:08of artists still with us who have enjoyed long and illustrious

0:44:08 > 0:44:11careers, but it's hard to think of one who,

0:44:11 > 0:44:13over more than five decades, has delivered the musical goods

0:44:13 > 0:44:19as comprehensively as Ry Cooder has.

0:44:19 > 0:44:20APPLAUSE

0:44:20 > 0:44:23There is not time enough to do justice here to his

0:44:23 > 0:44:25acclaimed film score work.

0:44:25 > 0:44:27Or indeed to consider the proposition that although he's

0:44:27 > 0:44:30a hugely knowledgeable and beloved folk musician, his appreciation

0:44:30 > 0:44:39and ear for a great pop song has also informed much of what he's done

0:44:39 > 0:44:45and makes him, if possible, even cooler.

0:44:45 > 0:44:47It's my great pleasure to present the Lifetime

0:44:47 > 0:44:48Achievement Award to Ry Cooder.

0:44:48 > 0:45:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:45:15 > 0:45:16APPLAUSE

0:45:16 > 0:45:18Thank you Nick.

0:45:18 > 0:45:20That's very nice.

0:45:20 > 0:45:23Back in Santa Monica, in the early '60s,

0:45:23 > 0:45:31the New Lost City Ramblers came through town.

0:45:31 > 0:45:34I saw them at the Folk Club in West Hollywood and I

0:45:34 > 0:45:35thought to myself - well, these guys they're

0:45:35 > 0:45:36not from the cabin.

0:45:36 > 0:45:38You know.

0:45:38 > 0:45:44They're not cotton mill workers and so forth.

0:45:44 > 0:45:50Mike Seeger, John Cohen and Tom Paley.

0:45:50 > 0:45:57I said - they learned to do it and they do it perfectly.

0:45:57 > 0:46:03So, there's hope for a boy from Santa Monica.

0:46:03 > 0:46:05I went to Tom Paley and I said, "Would you possibly consider

0:46:05 > 0:46:09giving me lessons?"

0:46:09 > 0:46:11And he said "Sure."

0:46:11 > 0:46:20And then began to teach me some things.

0:46:24 > 0:46:25The big news was these open tunings.

0:46:25 > 0:46:27You tuned the instrument to an open chord.

0:46:27 > 0:46:29A beautiful sound.

0:46:29 > 0:46:30That was the big news.

0:46:30 > 0:46:33And that's what I'm going to do right about now, soon as I walk over

0:46:33 > 0:46:36there and I want to say that really did it.

0:46:36 > 0:46:37That opened the door.

0:46:37 > 0:46:46APPLAUSE

0:46:57 > 0:47:00Now Ry is going to perform a song from his classic album.

0:47:00 > 0:47:03Paradise and Lunch and incidentally, this song was collected

0:47:03 > 0:47:09in Mississippi in 1959 by Alan Lomax and one Shirley Collins,

0:47:09 > 0:47:10ladies and gentlemen, Mr Ry Cooder.

0:47:12 > 0:47:21OK.

0:47:31 > 0:47:33# Jesus is on that mainline

0:47:33 > 0:47:37# Tell Him what you want

0:47:37 > 0:47:39# Jesus is on that mainline

0:47:39 > 0:47:44# Tell Him what you want

0:47:44 > 0:47:46# Jesus is on that mainline

0:47:46 > 0:47:50# Tell Him what you want

0:47:50 > 0:47:58# You can call Him up and tell Him what you want

0:47:58 > 0:48:03# Well, the line ain't never busy

0:48:03 > 0:48:05# You can tell Him what you want

0:48:05 > 0:48:07# Well, that line ain't never busy

0:48:07 > 0:48:09# You can tell Him what you want

0:48:09 > 0:48:11# Well, the line ain't never busy

0:48:11 > 0:48:16# You can tell Him what you want

0:48:16 > 0:48:17# Keep on calling Him up

0:48:17 > 0:48:21# And tell Him what you want

0:49:16 > 0:49:18# Well Richard Nixon up in heaven

0:49:18 > 0:49:23# Round the heavenly throne

0:49:23 > 0:49:27# Angels come looking for Him

0:49:27 > 0:49:29# Angels come looking for him

0:49:29 > 0:49:31# Said you're wanted on the telephone

0:49:31 > 0:49:33# A lot of people getting worried

0:49:33 > 0:49:34# Down in Washington

0:49:34 > 0:49:36# You'd better take this call

0:49:36 > 0:49:45# And listen to what they want

0:49:45 > 0:49:51# Now Richard Nixon's said - lookie here, I told you many times

0:49:51 > 0:49:57# You ain't got Richard Nixon, just kick around no more

0:49:57 > 0:49:59# If you don't like that orange hair faker

0:49:59 > 0:50:06# Throw him out the door

0:50:06 > 0:50:09# You'd better stand right up and tell him what you want

0:50:09 > 0:50:17# Jesus is on the mainline tell Him what you want

0:50:17 > 0:50:24# Jesus is on the mainline tell Him what you want

0:50:24 > 0:50:27# Jesus is on the mainline tell him what you want

0:50:27 > 0:50:28# You can call Him up

0:50:28 > 0:50:34# And tell him what you want

0:50:34 > 0:50:37# Jesus on the mainline

0:50:37 > 0:50:39# Tell Him what you want

0:50:39 > 0:50:45# Jesus on the mainline

0:50:45 > 0:50:49# Tell Him what you want

0:50:49 > 0:50:57# Jesus on the mainline

0:50:57 > 0:51:01# You'd better tell him

0:51:01 > 0:51:06# Tell Him what you want

0:51:06 > 0:51:09# You'd better tell him

0:51:18 > 0:51:24Thank you, folks, thank you so much.

0:51:26 > 0:51:35CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:51:50 > 0:51:52It's now time for our final award of the evening.

0:51:52 > 0:51:54For Folk Singer of the Year.

0:51:54 > 0:52:02To present this award, a singer and song writer from Glasgow.

0:52:02 > 0:52:11Her band, Texas, took their name from the 1984 Wim Wenders film,

0:52:11 > 0:52:13Paris Texas, which was soundtracked by a certain Ry Cooder.

0:52:13 > 0:52:14Please welcome leader Sharleen Spiteri.

0:52:14 > 0:52:17Hi.

0:52:17 > 0:52:26For me, as a songwriter and as a singer, we're all folk singers.

0:52:29 > 0:52:33Anyone that sings about life, the talks that tell the stories

0:52:33 > 0:52:36of love of loss of struggle, of anything, whether as a singer,

0:52:36 > 0:52:39just telling that story to you, which then becomes your song,

0:52:39 > 0:52:44it becomes your story.

0:52:44 > 0:52:47It becomes the people you know, the smells you know,

0:52:47 > 0:52:50the surroundings that you know and that is what a folk singer is.

0:52:50 > 0:52:53The winner, well-deservedly is Kris Drever.

0:52:53 > 0:53:02# If wishes were horses, beggars would ride #

0:53:10 > 0:53:12Singing is a great pleasure for everybody

0:53:12 > 0:53:13who does it.

0:53:13 > 0:53:15Not necessarily a great pleasure for everybody who hears

0:53:15 > 0:53:16everybody else's singing.

0:53:16 > 0:53:17I am delighted and good night.

0:53:17 > 0:53:26APPLAUSE

0:53:29 > 0:53:32And so, we're nearing the end of the BBC Radio 2

0:53:32 > 0:53:33Folk Awards for 2017.

0:53:33 > 0:53:35We hope you've enjoyed this snapshot of the folk scene.

0:53:35 > 0:53:38If you haven't, we're not really that bothered because we're nearly

0:53:38 > 0:53:43finished and we're going to go for a drink.

0:53:43 > 0:53:46Now, to play us out, someone who broke on to the folk

0:53:46 > 0:53:48scene 16 years ago and has gone from strength-to-strength

0:53:48 > 0:53:50as a singer, arranger and composure.

0:53:50 > 0:53:53He's going to sing us a song from his excellent album Upcetera.

0:53:53 > 0:53:55Backed by his Upcetera band and performing the traditional

0:53:55 > 0:53:56ballad, Fair Margaret and Sweet William,

0:53:56 > 0:53:57rapturous applause for Jim Moray.

0:53:57 > 0:54:06Thank you and good night.

0:54:08 > 0:54:09Hello.

0:54:09 > 0:54:11# Sweet William rose on a May morning

0:54:11 > 0:54:16# He's dressed himself in blue

0:54:16 > 0:54:19# We want you to tell us of the love that's been

0:54:19 > 0:54:24# Between Lady Margaret and you.

0:54:24 > 0:54:26# Well I know nothing Lady Margaret's love

0:54:26 > 0:54:28# And I know she don't love me

0:54:28 > 0:54:30# But tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock

0:54:30 > 0:54:38# Lady Margaret my bride shall see

0:54:38 > 0:54:43# Lady Margaret was sitting in in a room, back combing her hair

0:54:43 > 0:54:49# When who should she see but sweet William come a-riding there

0:54:49 > 0:54:51# She first threw down her ivory comb

0:54:51 > 0:54:52# Then back she threw hair.

0:54:52 > 0:54:54# And you can suppose and be very well assured

0:54:54 > 0:55:03# Lady Margaret was heard no more

0:55:20 > 0:55:23# The day being past and the night coming on

0:55:23 > 0:55:24# When most all men were asleep

0:55:24 > 0:55:27# Something appeared to sweet William and his bride

0:55:27 > 0:55:29# And stood at the their bed feet

0:55:29 > 0:55:31# Saying - how do you like your bed making

0:55:31 > 0:55:33# And how do you like your sheets

0:55:33 > 0:55:35# And how do you like that new wedded bride

0:55:35 > 0:55:42# That lies in your arms and sleeps

0:55:42 > 0:55:44# Very well do I like my bed making

0:55:44 > 0:55:46# Much better do I like my sheets

0:55:46 > 0:55:48# But best of all is that gay lady

0:55:48 > 0:55:51# That stands at my bed feet

0:56:13 > 0:56:14# The night being past

0:56:14 > 0:56:16# And the day coming on

0:56:16 > 0:56:19# When most all men were awake

0:56:19 > 0:56:21# Sweet William he said he was troubled in the head

0:56:21 > 0:56:25# By the dreams that he dreamed last night

0:56:25 > 0:56:29# Such dreams, such dreams cannot be true

0:56:29 > 0:56:32# I'm afraid they're of no good

0:56:32 > 0:56:34# I dreamed my chamber was full of wild swine

0:56:34 > 0:56:37# And my bride's bed floating in blood

0:56:37 > 0:56:39# He's called down his waiting men

0:56:39 > 0:56:44# By one, by two, by three

0:56:44 > 0:56:47# Saying go and ask leave of my new wedded

0:56:47 > 0:56:50# If Lady Margaret I mayn't go and see

0:56:50 > 0:56:52# He'd rode up to Lady Margaret's door

0:56:52 > 0:56:56# And tingled all on the ring

0:56:56 > 0:56:58# And who was so ready as her own born brother

0:56:58 > 0:57:04# To rise and let him in

0:57:04 > 0:57:13# Is Lady Margaret in her own bower room, or is she in her hall

0:57:16 > 0:57:19# Or is she high in her chambery, amongst the ladies all

0:57:19 > 0:57:21# Lady Margaret's not in her own bower room

0:57:21 > 0:57:23# Nor neither is she in her hall

0:57:23 > 0:57:25# But she's in her long cold coffin

0:57:25 > 0:57:34# Lies pale against the wall

0:57:41 > 0:57:43# Unroll, unroll the those winding sheets

0:57:43 > 0:57:44# Although they're very fine

0:57:44 > 0:57:46# And let me kiss them cold pale lips

0:57:46 > 0:57:48# Just as often as they've kissed mine

0:57:48 > 0:57:50# At first he's kissed her ivory cheeks

0:57:50 > 0:57:54# And then he's kissed her chin

0:57:54 > 0:57:56# And when he's kissed them cold pale lips

0:57:56 > 0:57:59# There was no breadth within

0:57:59 > 0:58:02# Lady Margaret died like it might be today

0:58:02 > 0:58:05# Sweet William he died tomorrow

0:58:05 > 0:58:11# Lady Margaret died for pure true love.

0:58:11 > 0:58:18# Sweet William he died for sorrow #

0:58:47 > 0:58:47Thank

0:58:47 > 0:58:47Thank you

0:58:47 > 0:58:48Thank you very

0:58:48 > 0:58:53Thank you very much.