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Korea Herald
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Lee Seung-yoon, aespa take top honors at the 22nd Korean Music Awards
Each takes home three awards K-pop girl group aespa and singer Lee Seung-yoon shared the highest honors at the 22nd Korean Music Awards. The Korean Music Awards, which first began in 2004 and has since become one of Korea's most prestigious music awards, held its 22nd annual ceremony on Thursday at EQL Seongsu in Seoul. In the general categories, aespa won Song of the Year with its hit song "Supernova," while Lee Seung-yoon was named Musician of the Year. Notably, both aespa and Lee Seung-yoon achieved the impressive feat of winning three awards each. Aespa's hit song "Supernova" also earned them Best K-pop Song, while its full-length album "Armageddon" won Best K-pop Album. Currently on its world tour, aespa accepted the awards via video message, saying, 'Three years ago, we won 'Song of the Year' with 'Next Level,' and it is an honor to receive this award again after three years. We will continue working hard this year to repay the love we have received.' Along with Musician of the Year trophy, Lee Seung-yoon won Best Rock Song for "Anthems of Defiance" and Best Modern Rock Song for "Waterfall." Upon receiving the Musician of the Year award, he expressed, 'I believe I am receiving this award because my music does not turn away from the times but rather carries a sense of contemporaneity. I will continue to create music that finds its way into people's drawers, pockets and flower pots, music that does not forget its era.' Band Danpyunsun and the Moments won Album of the Year and Best Modern Rock Album for full-length album "Long Live the Music." Indie male duo Sanmanhan was selected as the Rookie of the Year. Other notable winners included G-Dragon, who won Best Rap Song for "Power" and John Park, who won Best Pop Album for "PSST!," his first full-length album in 11 years.
BBC News
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
FolkEast announces first names for 2025 at new site in Sotterley
The founders of England's most easterly folk festival have announced the first names for this year's line-up who will be performing at the event's new had been held at the Glemham Hall estate near Woodbridge in Suffolk, for the past 12 years, but this year's festival in August will be staged 20 miles away at the Sotterley Estate, near the first names to be announced are Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening who will perform on the Saturday night. Tickell, who plays the Northumbrian pipes, has twice been named Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and was appointed OBE and awarded a Queen's Medal for Music for her outstanding contribution to the British music scene. Also announced for the 2025 line-up are: Penguin Café, Sheelanagig, The Liverpool Shanty Kings, The Longest Johns, The Rheingans Sisters, Tarren, Katie Spencer and the duo Jimmy Aldridge and Sid festival is organised by husband-and-wife team Becky and John Marshall-Potter, who began FolkEast in 2012 at Somerleyton Hall, near Lowestoft, before it moved to Glemham Hall. When the Glemham estate was put up for sale last year, a new venue had to be Marshall-Potter said: "Moving an event from a long-standing established site to a new and unfamiliar location is always going to be a challenge. You almost have to forget everything you have done and start again."Of course we will be transferring all of the popular main elements and ethos of FolkEast amd all the things people have told us they love, but it's a new geographical environment where things aren't necessarily going to fit and interact in the same way."So it's a learning curve but also an opportunity to be creative at a particularly striking site and we look forward to putting the FolkEast stamp on it to carry the festival's story forward." Sean Cooney, from the multi-award winning folk act The Young'uns, said: "We've been proud patrons of FolkEast for many years and are thrilled at this exciting new chapter. "In these dampening times for festivals across the country, FolkEast continues to shine its light." Tom Brown, chief executive at the Sotterley Estate, said: "Everyone at Sotterley Estate and the Barne family are incredibly excited to be working alongside FolkEast. "We know and have seen for ourselves what a special and unique festival this is and can understand why so many people already love it."The festival is such a great fit for us and we are keen for many new people to discover what a unique and amazing place Sotterley Park is, as well as offering many people in our community the opportunity to discover FolkEast."The festival will include five stages and three pubs and will be held 15-17 August. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
