RT Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2020 Shortlist Announcement

RT Choice Music Prize

In association with IMRO and IRMA

Irish Album of the Year 2020 Shortlist Announcement

Live Online from Studio 5, RT Thursday 4th March 2021

Watch on RT Player / Listen on RT 2FM

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The shortlist for this year's RT Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2020, in association with IMRO & IRMA, was announced today on RT 2FM's Tracy Clifford Show by Jim Carroll, chairman of the judging panel.

The shortlist is as follows:

Bitch Falcon Staring at Clocks (Small Pond Recordings)

Denise Chaila Go Bravely (narolane)

Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death (Partisan Records)

JyellowL 2020 DIvision (JyellowL Records)

R is n Murphy R is n Machine (Loaded Records)

Nealo All The Leaves Are Falling (2020 Nealo)

Pillow Queens In Waiting (Pillow Queens Records)

Ailbhe Reddy Personal History (Friends of the Family)

Niamh Regan - Hemet (The Black Gate Label)

Silverbacks - Fad (Central Tones)

As part of RT 's continued commitment to promoting Irish music, RT 2FM again celebrates the announcement of the shortlist across its schedule throughout the day with All Irish Music All Day from 6am to midnight.

Commenting, Adam Fogarty, Head of Music, RT 2FM said, Irish music is such an important part of 2fm and what we do. There's so much incredible talent in Ireland right now and we believe Irish music is in the best place it's ever been. As part of our RT Choice Music prize announcement, 2fm will be going all Irish, all day' once again to support the amazing artists we have here.

The Irish Album of the Year 2020 will be announced live on RT 2FM in a special Tracy Clifford Show from 12-3pm on Thursday 4th March and broadcast live on RT Player. The show will feature live performances from some of the shortlisted acts, further details on the line-up to be announced soon.

A special RT Choice Music Prize highlights programme will be broadcast on RT 2 television the following week.

The 16th annual RT Choice Music Prize will once again celebrate the best in Irish recorded music. The Prize has become one of the music industry highlights of the year since its inception in 2005. The Irish Album of the Year award is chosen from a shortlist of ten albums by a panel of eleven Irish music media professionals and industry experts. The full list of judges is listed on http://www.choicemusicprize.ie

The winning act will receive 10,000, a prize fund which has been provided by The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA). All shortlisted acts will receive a specially commissioned award.

RAAP and Minding Creative Minds are also official project partners of the RTE Choice Music Prize as are Culture Ireland and First Music Contact (FMC).

Through its funding of FMC's Music From Ireland programme, Culture Ireland support of the RT Choice Music Prize will be directed towards participant artists, as well as assisting the online RT Choice Music Prize Conversations .

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ENDS

For further information:

Choice Music Prize: Liza Geddes, Recode Publicity | lizageddes@gmail.com

RT : Neil O'Gorman | (087) 2077192 | neil.ogorman@rte.ie

Notes to Editor:

The RT Choice Music Prize is organised by David Reid. RT Brainstorm editor and co-founder of the RT Choice Music Prize Jim Carroll is the chairman of the judging panel. It is unique in that the judging of the Irish Album of the Year focuses simply and solely on the music (as opposed to sales, streaming or airplay).

Stay up-to-date with the latest RT Choice Music Prize news by following @choiceprize, @rte2fm, @rte and @rte2 on Twitter and Facebook and @explorerte and @rte2fm on Instagram using #rtechoiceprize.

Further information can be found at:

http://www.choicemusicprize.ie

http://2fm.rte.ie/

http://www.rte.ie/

http://twitter.com/choiceprize

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