Irish Festival Awards | Results 2011

Electric Picnic comes out on top in the Irish Festival Awards 2011 results.

More than 19,000 Irish music fans cast their votes in the 100% publicly-voted Irish Festival Awards 2011 – the results are now in!

Some obvious winners and some curveballs in the results. It should be noted that as Cherrycool organize both Castlepalooza and the Irish Festival Awards, Castlepalooza wasn’t in the running for any of the awards, in the interest of fairness. Shame, as we think it would have scooped a lot of gongs if it had been. Anyways, here’s the results:

Clockwise from top left: Electric PIcnic; Chemical Brothers; And So I Watch You From Afar; The Rubber Bandits.

Results for Irish Festival Awards 2011
Best Large Festival: Electric Picnic
Best Medium Festival: Rory Gallagher Tribute Festival
Best Small Festival: Body & Soul
Greenest Festival: Electric Picnic
Best One Day Festival: Arthur’s Day
Best New Festival: Forbidden Fruit
Best Dance Festival: Life
Best Traditional Festival: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann
Best Value: Arthur’s Day
Best Street Spirit: Galway Arts Festival
Best Headline Act: The Chemical Brothers
Best Rock Act: Muse
Best Dance Act: Underworld
Best Alternative Act: Rubber Bandits
Best Irish Act: And so I watch you from afar
Best Lineup: Electric Picnic
Family Festival Award: Electric Picnic
Social Responsibility Award: Electric Picnic
Best Service: Electric Picnic
Best Toilets: Electric Picnic

“The Irish Festival Awards were set up in 2007 to honour the people behind the scenes that make every Irish Summer such an eclectic celebration of music, art and performance – and well done to Electric Picnic for stealing the show in 2011,” said Awards Director, Cillian Stewart. “Fans are still in with a chance to win tickets to every winning festival so don’t delay and like the Festival Awards Facebook page to enter now,” he said.

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