The Presentations Roster

[Nick]

The Hancocks 2008  

The Talkawhile Awards for Folk Music

The trophies are now lined up and ready for presentation  

We are now looking for people to help with issuing the awards to our winners. As a reminder here is a list of the awards to be made and a note of where, when and by whom each award will be presented:

Award	Winner	Presented by	Where	When
---------------------------	-----------------------	-------------------	-----------------------	-----------------
Folk Singer of the Year	Chris Wood	Sir Martin	Cambridge Festival	August 1st
Best Group	Spiers & Boden	EllieW	Paradise Bar	September 16th
Best Album	The Imagined Village	AnnieD	Wychwood Festival	June 1st
Best Original Song	Benjamin Zephaniah	Ellie & Sir Martin	Cambridge Festival	August 2nd
Best Traditional Track	The Imagined Village	AnnieD	Wychwood Festival	June 1st
The Horizon Award	Tiny Tin Lady	NicO	Chester Telford's	September 22nd
Musician of the Year	Pete Zorn	Martin Driver	St Albans	April 14th 2009
Best Live Act	St Agnes Fountain	Delfini	Thoresby	Dec 19th-20th
All Round Good Egg Folkie	Simon Nicol	Skirky	Cropredy Festival Bar	August 8th
All Round Good Egg Folkie	Kath Hancock	Frogcrutches	Cropredy Festival Bar	August 9th
---------------------------	------------------------	-------------------	-----------------------	-----------------

 
Please post in this thread or send an IM to one of the moderators if you are able to help with the presentation of an award. Let us know who, when and where you can help out. This list will be filled in as presenters come forward.

We would like each award to be presented at a concert or public event where the winner is featured. Presenters should be be prepared for the following:

• You'll need tickets to the event - hey, we're not made of money!
• You should be with someone who can take photos to display on the board
• You should be able to make contact with the winner beforehand - leaping up on stage unnounced might not be a welcome move!
• You should be able to make contact with the venue and/or promoter - everyone concerned should be aware of what is going on and should give their consent
• You should give us sufficient notice so that the trophy can be arranged - June 1st is the earliest we can consider making an award

We know that some of the winners are members of the board. If any winners are reading this; first "congratulations!" Next, please send us an IM with ideas of where and/or how we might arrange the presentation.

Cheers!

[Nick]

...but first, we have a special announcement...

As you know, the Hancock trophies are very fine items, beautiful to see and to hold. Thay make the polls worth holding and worth winning. This quality comes at a price however and we have to think about how the costs can be met.

So, we are truly honoured that this year a very generous benefactor stepped forward and offered to help fund the trophies.

I know she is a quiet person and would not like to see a fuss made about things but we owe her great thanks for everything she has done for Talkawhile.

Please join me in saying thank you to Kath Hancock!

[Anji]

  Good on that girl  

[Andy]

Thank you Kath - and thanks too, to Nick, Colin and everyone else associated with these fine awards.

[jude]

Fantastic Kath,

[Waterloo Wonderer]

Thank you and whoever hands out the awards enjoy your Robbie Williams moment!

To meet the costs, or at least an attempt to limit costs, perhaps the tankard could be passed round at Cropredy.

The donation could be the price of a drink for/to absent friends.

[Amethyst (Jenny)]

Thank you Kath.. just brilliant!

[Angela]

Many thanks Kath

         

[Sam]

That is very kind

[gower flower (Shirl)]

Thank you Kath, you're a star.

Good idea about the tankard being passed round at Cropredy WW.

[Anne Dunn]

What a wonderfully generous woman you are Kath.

I was wondering the other day how they are paid for, and whether we should have a donations page on here so we could contribute.

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

Wow Kath that's fantastic. Thanks.

[Malcolm]

Excellent, Kath. Spurred me on to volunteer to do a presentation, which I just have

[gower flower (Shirl)]

Oooooh! Which one, Malcolm?  

[Malcolm]

Oooooh! Which one, Malcolm?  

TTL at Fareham

[Pastieboy (Trev)]

Oooh --can I nominate the Farnsfield Massive to present the Aggies with their  Hancock at Thoresby Hall this Xmas coming ? Namely  Amethyst ,Pugwash , Delfini and all the other TAW`s who frequent this rather wonderful venue ? I can take photos for you and I got tickets too .
 Just say yes Nick .

[Goaty]

Yeah, say yes Nick

[Ancient Muse (Andy)]

Wow Kath what a lovely lady you are! Thanks.

   


I was wondering like AnnieD how it was all paid for - I would definitely contribute if a donation page was started.

[gower flower (Shirl)]

I think WW's suggestion of a whip round at the Cropredy bar sounds like a fine idea.

[YaBB Master (Colin)]

The Hancock presentation season is now officially open. (We now have enough in stock for two years)

The first batch has been dispatched for presentation to The Imagined Village, this weekend.

Now we need some more volunteers, for the remaining presentations. Simon Nicol will most likely be at Cropredy and StAgnes has to wait.
With the others it's always best to present at small venue, as they tend to be more friendly and the audience more tolerant.

You don't need to have hundreds of posts here to 'qualify' to do a presentation. You just have to want to do it. We can normally find other members to provide moral support.