Submissions are now being sought in both the 2010 Indiegrrl and Philadelphia Songwriters Project Songwriting Contests.
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Liz Longley is the overall grand prize winner in the sixth annual International Acoustic Music Awards competition. The young singer-songwriter from Pennsylvania, who grew up listening to Joni Mitchell and Karla Bonoff, also captured first place in the competition’s Folk category for “When You’ve Got Trouble.”
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Many of the winners in the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy — including those in the recently renamed and expanded American Roots Music field — were announced online prior to televised ceremonies on January 31 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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The second annual Irish Music Awards were presented by the Irish Music Association on January 27 at O’Malley’s Pub in Weston, Missouri. Harpist and singer Orla Fallon, formerly of Celtic Woman and Anuna, won awards in all four categories in which she was nominated. Irish folk musician Donal Lunny — who has been a part of such groups as Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts and Mozaik, played on a number of Christy Moore albums, and has produced albums for other artists — was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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