Bid to find Ireland's greatest living musician
The race is on to select Ireland’s greatest living musician.
Judges will pick the winner from the 15 most popular nominees voted for by the public.
Artists such as Van Morrison, Christy Moore and Enya are expected to be in the running.
The special one-off honour is part of the People of the Year Awards, now in their 33rd year.
RTE Radio DJ Dave Fanning and composer Shay Healy will today launch details of the accolade.
Votes can be cast either by logging onto www.peopleoftheyear.com/musician, or by texting ’REHAB’ followed by the nominee’s name to 53503.
Closing date for all nominations is Friday July 20.
Chief executive of sponsor Rehab, Angela Kerins: “This award is guaranteed to provoke great interest and with so many talented Irish artists we’re expecting the competition to be fierce. Ireland has an international reputation in the music industry from country to pop, rock and traditional and every Irish person has their own favourite.
“With so many opinions, we’re expecting plenty of debate.”
