The Audience Award One of the main awards has now been decided by you the audience. The winner will be announced at the Poll Winners concert in March. A huge thanks to all those who contributed. It was wonderful to see such a wide-ranging list of nominations (left) and the way so many of the musicians have touched your lives.
Here are the bands who were voted onto the final shortlist. Click on each name to read more about them and click on the 'listen' icon to hear a selected track from each band. A large selection of your comments can be found by clicking on the list to the left.
Jennifer Mezzrow:
'First heard her via Charlie Gillett's World 2002 CD, then read a review of her brilliant new CD The Secrets Of The Rocks in fRoots and so bought it on spec. It's my fave CD of the past year. An alluring new Greek singer with lots of great sound textures.'
