Northern Ireland Music Prize

The Northern Ireland Music Prize awards are the Northern Irish awards for musicians who are friends with the organisers.[1] It is produced by the Oh Yeah Music Centre, and is supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Phonographic Performance Limited.[2] Started in 2013, it was "aimed at recognising the great wealth of recorded music from Northern Ireland."[3] In 2020, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremony was broadcast online.[4]

Northern Ireland Music Prize
Awarded forRecognising the great wealth of recorded music from Northern Ireland
Sponsored byOh Yeah
LocationBelfast
CountryNorthern Ireland
First awarded2013
Websitenimusicprize.com

A shortlist of 14 albums is created each year by an academy of professionals from the Northern Irish music industry. The prize winner would be selected by a "panel of experts" and announced at a ceremony in Belfast’s Mandela Hall.[3][5][6][7]

Four other awards are presented at the ceremony, as well as the NI Music Prize: Best Live Act, Best Single, The Oh Yeah Contender Award (Emerging Act) and the Legend Award.[8] These awards were introduced at the 2018 ceremony.[9]

Winners
  • 2013 — Foy Vance (Joy of Nothing)[10][11]
  • 2014 — Robyn G Shiels (The Blood of Innocents)[12][13]
  • 2015 — SOAK (Before We Forgot How to Dream)[14][15]
  • 2016 — Ciaran Lavery (Let Bad In)[16][17]
  • 2017 — Joshua Burnside (Ephrata)[18][19]
  • 2018 — The Wood Burning Savages (Stability)[20]
  • 2019 — Ryan Vail & Elma Orchestra (Borders)[21]
  • 2020 — Kitt Philippa (Human)[22]
  • 2021 — Saint Sister (Where I Should End)[23]

References
  1. Connections, NI. "Northern Ireland Music Prize preview – Our Krypton Son, Arvo Party & Gross Net". NI Connections. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  2. "Northern Ireland Music Prize". Northern Ireland Music Prize. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  3. Ireland, Culture Northern (2013-10-15). "Northern Ireland Music Prize". Culture Northern Ireland. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
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  5. "NI Music Prize announces 2017 shortlist - Chordblossom". Chordblossom. 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  6. Scott, Sarah (2017-11-12). "Meet the 2017 Northern Ireland Music Prize winner Joshua Burnside". belfastlive. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  7. "Northern Ireland Music Prize 2017: 12 shortlisted albums announced". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  8. "NI Music Prize".
  9. "NI Music Prize Event Details Announced. – Oh Yeah Music Centre". Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  10. "Foy Vance: 'When my dad died all these songs poured out ... I had to fill the void'". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  11. "Northern Ireland Music Prize 2013 - Chordblossom". Chordblossom. 2013-11-18. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  12. Henry, Lee (2014-11-29). "Robyn G Shiels on Winning NI Music Prize". Culture Northern Ireland. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  13. "Robyn G Shiels on Breaking Tunes". www.breakingtunes.com. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  14. "SOAK receives top Northern Irish music prize - M Magazine". M magazine: PRS for Music online magazine. 2015-11-16. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  15. "Derry singer-songwriter Soak scoops 2015 music prize". The Irish News. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  16. "Ciaran Lavery wins Northern Ireland Music Prize 2016". ITV News. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  17. "Ciaran Lavery wins NI Music Prize 2016 - Ulster Herald". Ulster Herald. 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  18. "Joshua Burnside wins Northern Ireland Music Prize 2017 - M Magazine". M magazine: PRS for Music online magazine. 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  19. "Joshua Burnside Scoops Northern Ireland Music Prize 2017". The Thin Air. 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  20. "NI Music Prize 2018- The Wood Burning Savages Do The Double".
  21. "Derry musicians Ryan Vail& Elma Orkestra win best album award for 'Borders'".
  22. "Kitt Philippa Wins Northern Ireland Music Prize".
  23. "NI Music Awards: Saint Sister and Dea Matrona big winners at Belfast event".
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