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He has performed on TV shows such as Other Voices and Ceol Ar An Imeall and is also curator of the Homelights Festival in Dublin.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a 2005 Rolling Stone interview, Ryan Adams cited Crowley when asked \"Who's the best songwriter that no one's heard of\". The Irish Times placed this artist at number eight in a list of \"The 50 Best Irish Acts Right Now\" published in April 2009.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrowley has won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year on one occasion for Season of the Sparks and been nominated on another occasion for Long Distance Swimmer. 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