As most of you know, Orla Fallon has been nominated in the Best New Irish CD category for Distant Shore in 2010 by the Irish Music Association.
She currently trails in votes in these last few days of voting! PLEASE HELP! If you are not already a member, go to the IMA website:
http://www.irishmusicassociation.com/phpBB3/ Repeating instructions from Kelli: Register as a new member. Once you have registered, you can vote on the Forum under the thread Public Voting for the 2010 IMA Awards. There is absolutely NO fee to join, unless you decide to become a Paid Member which costs $15. If you choose to do the latter, you will be able to vote twice, as a Public and Paid Member. You will get no spam.
You can vote in the other categories too, in which several Celtic Woman cast are nominated (highlighted):
Best New Irish CD
IMA Nominees:
Orla Fallon, John McSherry, The Mickey Finns,
Top Solo Performer in Concert (US, IRE, EU, UK)
IMA Nominees:
Mairead Nesbitt, Méav, Luka Bloom, Christy Moore
Best Female Vocalist (individual/trad.)
IMA Nominees:
Lynn Hillary, Deirdre Shannon, Lisa Kelly, Mary Black
Top Traditional Performance Show
IMA Nominees:
Celtic Woman, Chieftains, Riverdance, Trad on the Prom
Top Uilleann Piper (US, IRE, EU)
IMA Nominees: Tim Britton,
Tommy Martin, Diarmaid Moynihan, Paddy Keenan
Voting ends January 12, 2011, making this the last weekend before voting closes, so don't put it off if you intend to vote (and what Celtic Woman fan would not feel compelled to do so)!
Will you not make this
one small effort on behalf of these artists who have given so much to us, year-after-year? We praise them constantly here in words--now we have the opportunity to help present them with a concrete award which may be displayed (with hopefully some degree of affection in remembrance of their fans) long after their touring years are over.