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April
2011
Rising
star Clare Free in the running for a 2011 British Blues Award
Rising British blues star Clare Free is in the running to receive a
prestigious 2011 British Blues Award.
Two of Clare's songs – Funky Mama's Kitchen Blues and Fool To
Pride – are up for nomination for the Kevin Thorpe Award For Original
British Blues Song.
The award is named for British bluesman Thorpe, who died in September
2010 aged 57.
The public can vote on which songs will be shortlisted to receive the
KT Award by logging on to the British Blues Awards website. There, they
will find a number of shortlists, picked by various blues radio shows,
and they can choose their favourite from each list.
Songs in the running for the award can be voted for until April 18th,
when a final shortlist will be created. The winners will be announced
at the Newark Blues Festival on April 30th.
Clare's songs appear on two lists, and she will be hoping to build on
the success of her earlier releases. Her debut album, Be Who You Are,
received rave reviews around the world, and every track on her follow-up
EP, How It Is, reached the Top 10 charts with international music distribution
company CD Baby in the same week.
Clare has toured extensively in the UK, as well as in Europe, India
and the Caribbean, and her favoured guitar is a Fret-King® Eclat,
distributed worldwide by John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd.
Currently on tour, upon hearing news of her nomination, Clare said:
"Being nominated for the KT Award means so much to me, and to have
two songs put forward in one year is almost unreal. Our tour has been
going great, and my band and I have never worked so hard - we're loving
every second of it!"
> www.fret-king.com
> www.clarefree.co.uk
 
The British Blues Awards:
www.britishbluesawards.com
Newark Blues Festival:
www.newarkblues.co.uk
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