Singers Billy Bragg and Roy Harper are to be honoured
with lifetime achievement honours at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards later this
month.
Bragg will
receive the Roots Award in recognition of his 30-year career as a
socially-conscious singer-songwriter.
Harper, a folk
rocker who started out in the 1960s and has influenced a generation of
alternative acoustic musicians, will also be recognised.
The ceremony
takes place at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on 30 January.
Shetland
fiddler Aly Bain and Dougie MacLean, who wrote the Scottish anthem Caledonia,
will also receive lifetime achievement accolades.
Now in its 14th
year, the event will be hosted by Mark Radcliffe and Julie Fowlis. Singers Sam
Lee, Jim Moray and Karine Polwart lead the field in the competitive categories
with three nominations each.
Source: BBC
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