I was pretty chuffed to hear that I was nominated for an award at the Just Plain Folks Music Award (JPFolks).
http://www.jpfolks.com/This is the biggest music award in the world as it is purely independant music which is judged. This year JPFolks trawled through 42 thousand albums and 560 thousand individual songs with the selection criteria of "Does this song move you."
Well somebody, or people, (I'm not sure how it all works) liked Na Táilliúirí, one of the lively song on my album, and it has been nominated for the Celtic Song category. In total there are 24 nominees for this category.
The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, August 29th in Nashville, TN at the Wildhorse Saloon. I won't be able to attend but I'm sort of chuffed wiuth the nomination and will be keeping a watch on what happens.
I like the sound of their voting policy which is decsribed below. It seems it can't be manipulated by the nominated artists. We'll see how it all woks out
Here's a little of their blurb.
Congratulations on getting a nomination in what is literally the world's largest music awards. The judges were given 1 criteria to judge: Does the music move you? If you're reading this (or representing an artist who is nominated) that means you moved a lot of people to make it all the way to the nominations from the largest body of music ever considered.
We will be doing online voting to determine winners starting next weekend. We've already begun collecting requests from interested judges. If you'd like to do some Peer Judging (which means you're a fellow artist or songwriter) you are welcome to. However we can't count votes in your own category. We understand there is great curiosity to hear the other nominees and that is fine. You can sign up but just don't vote in your own categories. Also, you can have your fans vote, but also not in your category. This is NOT about who has the most fans and we have no reason to ask you to recruit people to vote for you (yuck!). We won't count them even if they do! That isn't to say they can't vote in other categories, so if you want to refer ANYONE to vote on some great music, just have them use your email address as the person who referred them and they are welcome and encouraged to join us. Please don't make efforts to manipulate results. Frankly it's not worth it and would corrupt any win you might get from it. This is an honest awards and we'll take every action possible to exclude attempted fraud from the process. That sounds like a breath of fresh air eh?
If you'd like to sign up to judge yourself, we'd love to have all the nominees participate in the spirit of all the work non-nominated artists, writers, fans and industry folks did to nominate you. I think you, as a fellow nominee, will be proud to see for yourself the breadth and depth of talent nominated alongside you.
Register to vote here:
http://wilshiremedia.com/jpf/signup.aspx