{"id":236529,"date":"2025-10-31T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236529\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:07:08","slug":"shropshire-music-awards-see-all-the-winners-including-best-band-best-busker-and-best-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236529\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire Music Awards: See all the winners including best band, best busker and best festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Shropshire Music Awards 2025 were held at 757 Nightclub in Wellington<\/a> last night (Thursday), with more than 400 people filling a packed-out venue to witness artists, venues and industry professionals being honoured in more than 30 categories. Among the winners were Shrewsbury\u2019s<\/a> Loopfest, popular busker and TikTok star Jason Allan and Shropshire Oktoberfest favourites Vorsprung Durch Oompah.<\/p>\n

Others to pick up awards included The Bartells, who took home Best Band; Melissa Severn, crowned Best Solo Artist; and Mother Thunder, winners of Best Rock Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"SomeSome of the winners at this year’s Shropshire Music Awards, clockwise from top left: Melissa Severn, Jason Allan, Loopfest and Vorsprung Durch Oompah<\/p>\n

Quantum Penguin impressed with his release Ad\u00e9lie, securing Best Album, while The Original Wanted claimed Best Single with Love at First Bite.<\/p>\n

The awards also celebrated the people behind the scenes, with Tina Burford winning Best Promoter, Andy Lowe taking Best Producer, and Moose Records Ltd named Best Production Company\/Studio.<\/p>\n

Community heroes were recognised too – Community Champion went to Mark \u201cMaggot\u201d Davies, and Andrew Rowbotham was honoured as Local Legend for his ongoing dedication to Shropshire\u2019s creative scene.<\/p>\n

CultureTainment founder and event organiser Tim Rogers said: \u201cThe Shropshire Music Awards were created to give our local artists and music community the recognition they deserve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe turnout and atmosphere on the night were incredible. It shows just how much talent and passion we have right here in Shropshire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Full list of 2025 winners:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Acoustic: Barry Williams<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Album: Ad\u00e9lie – Quantum Penguin<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Band: The Bartells<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Busker: Jason Allan<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Charity Event: Meadowfest<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Covers Act: Rhi Moore<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Covers Band: Wild Candy<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best DJ: Neil Willis<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Drum and Bass: Pixel<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Event: Audio Tek Events<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Festival: Loopfest<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Folk\/Country: The Endings<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Garage: Deejay Darkfada<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Hip Hop\/Rap: TrippleJayy<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Indie\/Alternative: Fido<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Instrumentalist: Paul Raymond<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Metal: Recall The Remains<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Music Store: Music Vault<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Music Video: Dreams \u2013 Monroe<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Newcomer: Offices<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Open Mic Night: Newport Open Mic<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Podcast\/Radio: The Salopian Mixtape<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Producer: Andy Lowe<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Production Company\/Studio: Moose Records Ltd<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Promoter: Tina Burford<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Punk: Boom Boom Womb<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Rock: Mother Thunder<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Single: Love at First Bite \u2013 The Original Wanted<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Solo Artist: Melissa Severn<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Tribute Act: Oasis Forever<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Tutor\/School\/Education: The Rock Project Shrewsbury<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best Venue: Percys Cafe Bar<\/p>\n

\u2022 Best World: Vorsprung Durch Oompah<\/p>\n

\u2022 Community Champion: Mark \u201cMaggot\u201d Davies<\/p>\n

\u2022 Local Legend: Andrew Rowbotham<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pushing Boundaries Award: BassPhaze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Shropshire Music Awards 2025 were held at 757 Nightclub in Wellington last night (Thursday), with more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[33834,100053,96,2652,100052,128,50,43716,100054,43717,84402,25009,94096,34661,100056,16975,100055,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bridgnorth","9":"tag-bridgnorth-entertainment","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-local-hubs","12":"tag-mid-wales-entertainment","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-north-shropshire","16":"tag-north-shropshire-entertainment","17":"tag-oswestry","18":"tag-oswestry-entertainment","19":"tag-shrewsbury","20":"tag-shrewsbury-entertainment","21":"tag-south-shropshire","22":"tag-south-shropshire-entertainment","23":"tag-telford","24":"tag-telford-entertainment","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}