{"id":52,"date":"2007-02-25T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acousticmusicscene.com\/index.php\/acousticapsules\/folk-alliance-award-winners-named\/"},"modified":"2007-02-25T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T23:54:08","slug":"folk-alliance-award-winners-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/2007\/02\/25\/folk-alliance-award-winners-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk Alliance Award Winners Named"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winners of the 2nd Annual Folk Alliance Awards were recognized during an awards ceremony at the just-concluded 19th Annual North American Folk Music & Dance Alliance International Business Conference in Memphis, Tenn.
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And the winners are…<\/p>\n

Folk DJ<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Gene Shay, WXPN (Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>)<\/p>\n

Song of the Year<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

“Seems So Real,” Chris Smither<\/p>\n

Traditional Release of the Year<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome – The Seeger Sessions<\/em><\/p>\n

Contemporary Release of the Year<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Wailin’ Jennys, Firecracker<\/em><\/p>\n

Traditional Artist of the Year<\/strong>: <\/span><\/p>\n

Odetta<\/p>\n

Contemporary Artist of the Year<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Chris Smither<\/p>\n

Emerging Artist of the Year<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Crooked Still<\/p>\n

World Music Artist of the Year<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Mamadou Diabate<\/p>\n

Folk Booking Agency<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Fleming Artists<\/p>\n

Small Folk Venue<\/strong> (under 250 capacity): <\/p>\n

Club Passim – Cambridge<\/st1:city>, Mass.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place><\/p>\n

Large Folk Venue<\/strong> (over 250 capacity): <\/p>\n

Old<\/st1:placename> Town<\/st1:placetype> School<\/st1:placetype> of Folk Music – Chicago<\/st1:city>, Ill.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place><\/p>\n

Folk Festival<\/strong>: <\/span><\/p>\n

Kerrville<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> Folk Festival<\/p>\n

The award recipients were recognized for merit and achievement during a February 21st awards show at the Cook Convention Center. Previously announced Lifetime Achievement Awards also were presented at that time to living bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs and posthumously to Dave Van Ronk and Manny Greenhill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winners of the 2nd Annual Folk Alliance Awards were recognized during an awards ceremony at the just-concluded 19th Annual North American Folk Music & Dance Alliance International Business Conference in Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n

And the winners are\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Folk DJ:<\/p>\n

Gene Shay, WXPN (Philadelphia)<\/p>\n

Song of the Year:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seems So Real,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Chris Smither<\/p>\n

Traditional Release of the Year:<\/p>\n

Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Seeger Sessions<\/p>\n

Contemporary Release of the Year:<\/p>\n

Wailin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Jennys, Firecracker<\/p>\n

[To see the full list of winners, click on the tile in red].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-contests","category-acousticapsules","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}