Flanders Folk Awards 2024: the winners
Naragonia - Best Live Band 2024
Toasaves with Zwerver - Best Album 2024
Hella - Most Promising Band 2024
Marc Vandemoortele - Lifetime Achievement Award 2024
Categories
BEST ALBUM
BEST LIVE BAND
MOST PROMISING BAND
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Awards are granted in 3 categories: best album, best live band, and most promising band.
In this way, everyone has the possibility to compete: bands at the beginning of their career, as well as artists with lots of milages on their tour bus. Artists who released their best creation ever in the past year are also eligible.
> release period for ‘best album’: October 15th 2022 - October 15th 2023
And as a surprise, for the first time, a Lifetime Achievement Award was presented!
The jury
The jury consists of members who are actively involved in the contemporary music scene and have an affinity for folk:
Kurt Overbergh (Artistic Director AB), Wim Wabbes (Artistic Director Handelsbeurs), Sien Wynants (Radio 1), Michaël Robberechts (Radio 1), Marc Vandemoortele (Klara, Merodefestival), Anaïs Verhulst (Cemper/Muziekinstrumentenmuseum), Bavo Vanden Broeck (Festival Dranouter), Dirk Van der Speeten (Muziekclub ‘t Ey), Steven Reynaert (Muziekcentrum Dranouter), Lies Tanghe (Muziekcentrum Dranouter), Rik Couchez (Gooikoorts, Muziekmozaïek), Danny Theuwis (30CC), Marc Reusen (Folkfestival Ham), Luc Indesteege (Folk in Limburg), Bart Aerts (Merodefestival)
The nominees (2024)
The Flemish folk scene is alive and kicking! There are a lot of great bands in the region of Flanders. Selecting the nominees was not an easy task for the jury. After a lot of deliberation, FFN can now present the nominees for the fourth edition of the Flanders Folk Awards. There are three nominated bands per category:
Best live band
HIRAETH
NARAGONIA
SNAARMAARWAAR
Best album
ANDRIES BOONE - C.O.N.V.E.R.S.A.T.I.O.N.S
LEÁN - TIERRA AZUL
TOASAVES - ZWERVER
Most promising band
BLIET
HELLA
