{"id":29539,"date":"2015-11-30T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=29539"},"modified":"2015-11-30T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:43:37","slug":"local-reintroduces-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/11\/30\/local-reintroduces-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff man revives local music awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cardiff local has set out on a venture to reignite the <a href=\"http:\/\/fearandloathingblog.tumblr.com\/post\/132897593150\/cardiff-music-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff Music Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtownend.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ed Townend<\/a>, previous production manager at Oxjam Cardiff takeover, has been involved in music since 2007 and hopes that the awards will recognise the achievements of local musicians.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29540\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 468px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Junior-billand.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29540\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Junior-billand-468x312.jpg\" alt=\"cardiff music awards, local, Ed Townend\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29540\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Junior-billand-468x312.jpg\" alt=\"cardiff music awards, local, Ed Townend\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Ed has previously worked at Swn Festival and hopes that the Cardiff Music Awards will become a similar annual event<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The aim of the Cardiff Music Awards is to celebrate the music scene and give credit to its musicians, organisations and other individuals whose achievements may go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Townend said, \u201cI hope to highlight the great talent and breadth of the local Cardiff music scene with the awards and honour the hard work of those within it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThe idea of doing it every year would be based on the success of the process and the public opinion in relation to the results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff Music Awards recognises work of unsung local musicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":29551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[5165,5166,5167,5168,530],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-uncategorized","tag-cardiff-music-awards","tag-ed-townend","tag-junior-bill-and-the-scallies","tag-oxjam-takeover","tag-swn-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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