The Northern Ireland Music Prize awards are the Northern Irish awards for musicians who are friends with the organisers. It is produced by the Oh Yeah Music Centre, and is supported by

Arts Council of Northern Ireland The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Irish: ''Comhairle Ealaíon Thuaisceart Éireann'', Ulster-Scots: ''Airts Cooncil o Norlin Airlan'') is the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, as a successor to ...

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. Started in 2013, it was "aimed at recognising the great wealth of recorded music from Northern Ireland." In 2020, in light of the

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pandemic, the ceremony was broadcast online. A shortlist of 14 albums is created each year by an academy of professionals from the Northern Irish music industry. The prize winner would be selected by a "panel of experts" and announced at a ceremony in Belfast’s Mandela Hall. Four other awards are presented at the ceremony, as well as the NI Music Prize: Best Live Act, Best Single, The Oh Yeah Contender Award (Emerging Act) and the Legend Award. These awards were introduced at the 2018 ceremony.

Winners

*2013 —

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(''Joy of Nothing'') *2014 — Robyn G Shiels (''The Blood of Innocents'') *2015 —

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(''Before We Forgot How to Dream'') *2016 — Ciaran Lavery (''Let Bad In'') *2017 — Joshua Burnside (''Ephrata'') *2018 — The Wood Burning Savages (''Stability'') *2019 — Ryan Vail & Elma Orchestra (''Borders'') *2020 — Kitt Philippa (''Human'') *2021 — Saint Sister (''Where I Should End'')

References

{{reflist British music awards Awards established in 2013