THE winner of this year's Northern Ireland Music Prize for best locally produced album of 2017 will be decided on Saturday night in Belfast.
Three of this year's NI Music Prize nominees, Arborist, Joshua Burnside and Robocobra Quartet will be performing during the course of the awards ceremony at The Mandela Hall at Queen's University Belfast's Student Union on November 11.
The evening will climax with the presentation of this year's Oh Yeah Legend Award to Northern Ireland-born Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell, who will treat the audience to a set of Dio classics and new material with his band Last In Line.
The full list of NI Music Prize albums are:
Arborist – Home Burial
Arvo Party – Arvo Party
Bap Kennedy – Reckless Heart
The Divine Comedy – Foreverland
Gross Net – Quantitative Easing
Hannah Peel – Awake But Always Dreaming
Invaderband – Invaderband
Joshua Burnside – Ephrata
Malojian – This Is Nowhere
Our Krypton Son – Fleas & Diamonds
Robocobra Quartet – Music For All Occasions
Sea Pinks – Watercourse
Previous winners include Ciaran Lavery's Let Bad In (2016), Before We Forgot How to Dream by Soak (2015), Robyn G Shiels' A Lifetime of Midnights (2014) and The Wild Swan by Foy Vance (2013).
:: Tickets available via NImusicprize.com
