Jim Moray
Sunday Afternoon.
Album Of The Year Award for Sweet England at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Since graduating from Birmingham Conservatoire in summer 2003, Jim Moray has caused a revolution in the folk world with the release of the album Sweet England .
In February 2004 at the Radio 2 Folk Awards, in an unprecedented move for a previously unknown artist, he was presented with the BBC Radio 2 Album Of The Year Award 2004 for Sweet England as well as the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award 2004 for best newcomer.
What the press have been saying:
‘The reinvention of folk music. Jim Moray’s debut CD, a word-of-mouth sensation, is the biggest leap forward in folk for 30 years.’ Neil McCormick, The Telegraph
‘Hailed as the future of British folk, 21 year old Jim Moray is exciting the open-minded and upsetting the more myopic folk traditionalists with his remarkable album Sweet England.’ Paul Sexton, Billboard, US
‘The 21 year old singer-musician from Birmingham is threatening to do for the folk world what Nigel Kennedy did for classical music.’ David Sinclair, The Times
‘Jim Moray…whose fusion of trad ballads and beats on his Sweet England album is the hippest thing to hit the folk world in years.’ Nigel Williamson, the Times
‘What makes Moray exceptional is an instinctive feel for the drama, beauty and intimacy of the traditional, while drawing naturally on the influences of modern culture and 21st century technology to express it.’ Colin Irwin, Mojo
‘Irritatingly young, handsome and talented, Jim Moray is the poster boy of what will become known as “nu folk”.’ Andy Gill, the Independent
‘On first hearing Sweet England is startling. By tenth listen it is a revolutionary experience.’ HMV Choice
‘Moray’s inventive rearrangement of such familiar ballads as Early One Morning and Raggle Taggle Gypsies may just be the most significant new development in English folk music since Fairport Convention’s Liege and Leif.’ Nigel Williamson, Uncut
In May/June 2004 he supported Richard Thompson on his solo UK tour. In July 2004 he was invited to provide the opening performance for The Heritage National Lottery Fund Heritage And Identity Forum on at The British Museum chaired by Melvyn Bragg.
In November 2004 Jim was once again nominated for a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award 2005 with his track Cuckoo’s Nest recorded with The Oysterband for the album The Big Session Vol. 1 nominated for Best Traditional track, a category in which Jim had two nominations in 2004.
Spring 2005 he returned to Australia and New Zealand to perform at the Womad festivals followed by a UK tour in April 2005 and a performance at the Womad festival in Cacares in Spain in May.
Album Of The Year Award for Sweet England at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
