Anais and Jefferson win BBC Folk Award

Exciting news: On February 19th, at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall, Anais and Jefferson won a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for “Willie of Winsbury,” the opening track of their 2013 release Child Ballads. They were nominated in two categories, including Album of the Year, and took the award for Best Traditional Track. Later in the evening they performed the song live.

Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer perform live at London's Royal Albert Hall, 2/19/2014

You can watch their live performance of “Willie of Winsbury” featuring Lau’s Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle) and Martin Green (accordion) here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01skndk

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