Just in time for the summer comes the Navigator Sampler 2014. It features tracks from all of the albums released on Navigator Records this year plus tracks from several of last year’s releases which you may have missed. The sampler is available via Google Play and iTunes
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The Young’uns release their new album ‘Never Forget’ today which the band have decided to release the album under their own label Hereteu Records.

In May 2013, a beautiful thing happened in the city of York. Muslims from a tiny mosque on Bull Lane met protesting members of the English Defence League with a pot of tea and invited them to come inside. This tiny act of love inspired the album. The Young’uns bold vocals and innate musicality take the listener from a tiny mosque in York to the Spanish Civil War through a landscape strewn with working-class heroes, lost sailors and abandoned lovers.
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The winners of the 2014 Spiral Earth Awards have been announced today and Navigator are delighted that we have several winning acts. Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker have won the award for Best Duo whilst Lucy Ward has won the Best Original Song Award for ‘I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak’.

 

This year Spiral Earth have made the awards a much more personal set of nominations saying:

These are the artists and albums that we have loved the most in 2013, it was a tough choice in many cases.

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We’ve put together a Navigator Best of 2013 Spotify Playlist which features tracks from all of the albums we’ve released this year. If any of our releases have passed you by in the past 12 months (where have you been!?), its a great way to get a taster for what you’ve missed.

Click the Play button below to start listening…
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The nominations for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards were announced last night and Navigator are proud that many of our artists past and present have been nominated. Lisa Knapp has received three nominations in total which include Folk Singer of the Year, Best Album and Best Original Song. Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker have received two nominations for Best Duo and the Horizon Award whilst Lucy Ward also receives a nomination in the Folk Singer of the Year category. Other notable inclusions are Bella Hardy for Folk Singer of the Year and Sam Sweeney (of Bellowhead) whose nominated for Musician of the Year. Next year will be the 15th anniversary of the event which will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 19th February 2014, tickets are available now, with performers including Bellowhead, Clannad, Martin and Eliza Carthy, Suzanne Vega and Fisherman’s Friends confirmed to appear.
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