Festival stars scoop top folk awards

THREE of the artists performing at this year’s Beverley Folk Festival have scooped national awards.
By The Newsroom
Published 11th Feb 2011, 09:39 BST

Headline act for the Sunday of the festival, Bellowhead, went home from the BBC Radio 2 Awards with an award for best group presented by Tamsin Greig, who plays Debbie in The Archers and best live act, presented by comedian Frank Skinner.

No stranger to folk fans in Beverley is singer and guitarist Ewan McLellan from Scotland

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He has now moved south and is living in Leeds and won the Horizon award for the best emerging artist.

Regular visitors to the youth section of the festival will know Moore, Moss and Rutter from Norfolk.

They will also be appearing on the main stage this year and took the young folk award for the best young artists.

Folk superstar Barbara Dickson, who co-hosted the awards ceremony, is also amongst the headline acts at the festival which runs from Friday June 17 until Sunday June 19.

Dickson’s singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in 1964 and her hits include I Know Him So Well, Caravans, and Another Suitcase Another Hall.