How It WorksYou can enter this year’s BBC Radio 2 YoungFolk Award by completing the attachedapplication form and sending it in, along witha recording of your performance.

Please read carefully all thepoints in the 'How To Enter'section of this form.

Ten successful entries will be invited toattend the Young Folk Award Weekend on29–31 January 2016 in Kendal. You will spendthe weekend meeting other performers andattending workshops led by professionalmusicians and organisers. There will be timefor socialising and sessions too.

Accommodation and food are provided and acontribution will be made towards entrants’travel costs.

On the Saturday evening there will be aconcert open to the public, featuring a shortperformance from each act, from which apanel of judges will select four acts tobecome the nominees for the 2016 YoungFolk Award. Those nominees will be invitedto the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ceremony inApril 2016, where the winner will beannounced. The Folk Awards will bebroadcast live on BBC Radio 2.

Some past Young Folk Awardparticipants:Bella HardyJackie OatesMegan HenwoodAdam Holmes (Rura)Blair DunlopJohn Parker (Nizlopi)Greg Russell & Ciaran AlgarThe Mischa Macpherson TrioJim MorayJarlath HendersonSiobhan Miller/Lauren MacColl (Salt House)

Tim van Eyken (War Horse)Lucy Ward

BBC Radio 2Young FolkAward 2016Do you perform folk, roots or acousticmusic from any culture?

This contest is open to soloists, duos and groups.

For more information and entry forms visitbbc.co.uk/radio2 or contactR2youngfolkaward2016@smoothoperations.comTel 01457 873752

Please send us your entry by the end of Friday 4 December 2015.

The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award is producedin association with The Folk Show, which isbroadcast every Wednesday evening on BBCRadio 2 from 7pm – 8pm.

Last year’s winners, Talisk

How To Enter1. All entrants should be UK residents aged between 16-21 years

on 4 December 2015. Proof of age may be requested.2. Employees of the BBC and Smooth Operations or their close

relatives or anyone connected with the contest are not eligibleto enter.

3. Solo performers, duos or groups can enter as long as they areall within the specified age range (in exceptional circumstances, ifjust one member of the group falls outside the age range, thismight be permitted. Please enquire).

4. Groups should consist of at least 3 performers and not morethan 6.

5. All performers must sign the entry form and send it to the emailor postal address below.

6. An individual can make a maximum of 2 entries provided 1entry is as part of a group and 1 entry is as a soloist or duo.

7. Entry forms must be accompanied by recordings lasting nolonger than 8 minutes in total. Mp3 via email is preferred, butCD by post is also acceptable. Recordings cannot be returned,so keep a copy.

8. The line-up on the recording must be the same as the line-upthat will attend later stages if invited, and THE RECORDINGMUST BE A REPRESENTATION OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE.Multi-tracked recordings featuring extra instruments ormusicians will not be accepted.

9. The selection of entrants to perform at later stages may besubject to appropriate licenses and school permissions beingobtained if applicable.

10. The live performance stages of the contest will be recorded forpossible transmission on the BBC or online. Entrants will bedeemed to have granted to the BBC, in respect of theirperformances, the irrevocable right and license to freereproduction and exhibition in all media (now known orhereafter created) throughout the world for the full period ofcopyright. The material chosen must therefore be suitable forbroadcast on BBC Radio 2.

11. The right is reserved to cancel the contest at any stage oramend any of the terms or details of the Prize if necessary.

12. Entry forms and recordings must arrive by the end of Friday 4December 2015.

13. Entrants selected to take part in the next stage will becontacted by email or post as soon as possible after the closingdate.

14. If a selected person is unable to be contacted on the emailaddress or address supplied, or is unable to attend the nextstage, the right is reserved to substitute a runner up.

Email entries should be signed, scanned and sent toR2youngfolkaward2016@smoothoperations.com

Postal entries should be sent to:BBC Radio 2 Young Folk AwardSmooth OperationsPO Box 18Dobcross, Oldham OL3 5FS

If you have any queries please emailR2youngfolkaward2016@smoothoperations.com or call 01457 873752.

n I have emailed one or more Mp3 files, lasting no more than 8 minutes in total.

n I have enclosed one or more recordings, lasting no more than 8 minutes in total, on CD with this application.

Entry forms and recordings must arrive by the end of Friday 4 December 2015.

Email entries should be sent to: R2youngfolkaward2016@smoothoperations.com

.The following section MUST be completed by the parent / legal guardian of all entrants listed above who are aged 16.