Producers Message

Eric Cunningham & Pat Jennings
Producers
2009 "Ireland's Music Awards"
We are delighted to bring to you "Ireland's Music Awards", the Irish Traditional, Folk & Celtic Music Awards which recognizes the very best achievements by our homegrown and international Irish traditional, folk and celtic music artists, musicians, producers, composers and industry executives.
It seemed a shame that before now the artists and acts who continually excelled within the Irish traditional, folk and Celtic music genres were not recognised and honoured publicly and annually at a ceremony in Ireland. After all much of this music emanates from Ireland. So we are delighted to fill this void by producing the inaugural presentation of ‘Ireland's Music Awards'.
There had been similar award ceremonies in the past which unfortunately were discontinued while there are other awards at present which deal solely with the more purist aspect of traditional music or refer to Irish traditional, folk and Celtic music in a token way. 'Ireland's Music Awards' however will become an awards ceremony where the best performers, as voted by the general public, will be honoured year after year in each of the aforementioned classes and where both conventional and unorthodox styles have a platform. This exclusive event will comprise performances by the 'who's who' within the Irish traditional, folk and Celtic music business while the recipients of each award will be announced on the night."