This year’s winners of the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards

The live event in Vicar Street gave out awards for Irish folk music for the seventh time last night.

Presented by John Creedon with performances on the night from Damien Dempsey, Róis, Seamas Hyland, Pólca 4, Niamh Regan, John Spillane, plus five-time Grammy award winner, Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Donal Lunny was given a lifetime achievement award, presented by his close collaborator Christy Moore.

Róise Rua, a renowned singer from Donegal was inducted into the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards Hall of Fame on the night.

A television highlights programme of the show will air on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player on Saturday 1st March.

RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards – the shortlist

BEST ORIGINAL FOLK TRACK

Caoine – Róis

Chasing the Hare – Alannah Thornburgh

I’m for Gallipoli – Fiach Moriarty featuring Damien Dempsey

Old Friend – Lemoncello

The Good Life – Joshua Burnside

BEST TRADITIONAL FOLK TRACK

Bean an Fhir Ruaidh – Diane Cannon

Helen of Kirkconnel Lea – The Half Room

Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye – Macdara Yeates

The Rocky Road to Dublin – Lankum

Welcome Home Gráinne – Natalie Ní Chasaide & Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnaill – winner

BEST FOLK SINGER

Cathy Jordan

Christy Moore

Macdara Yeates

Ríoghnach Connolly – winner

BEST FOLK INSTRUMENTALIST

Alannah Thornburgh – winner

Diarmuid Ó Meachair

Macdara Ó Faoláin

Sinéad McKenna

BEST FOLK GROUP

Altan

CUAS

Keane Connolly McGorman

Landless – winner

BEST FOLK ALBUM

Crankie Island Song Project – Cathy Jordan

A Terrible Beauty – Christy Moore

Fíoruisce:The Legend of the Lough – John Spillane – winner

Keane Connolly McGorman – Keane Connolly McGorman

Lemoncello – Lemoncello

BEST EMERGING ARTIST

CUAS

Niamh Bury

RÓIS – winner

Seamas Hyland

Sinéad McKenna

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