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are, in order of broadcast, Oceans, Deserts, Arctic, Jungles,
Mountains, Grasslands, Rivers and Cities.
www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/b00sggq0
Also on Radio 3, World On 3 (Fridays 11.15pm) has a New Year show with Mary Ann Kennedy and guests Michael Marra, The Staves and Battlefield Band (31st December); Lopa Kothari with Gogol Bordello (14th Jan) and guests t.b.c. (21st); Mary Ann Kennedy live from Celtic Connections (28th); Lopa Kothari (4th & 11th Feb) and Mary Ann Kennedy with Al Andaluz, as featured this issue, on 18th Feb.
Veena player Hari Sivanesan is the new BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy mentee with Aruna Sairam, one of South India’s leading female vocalists as his mentor.
Joe Boyd’s Lucky 13 airs on Resonance FM, 104.4 on the London dial, or on the web at
resonancefm.com/listen at 12pm on Fridays, repeated Sundays at 11pm. There’s also a podcast from
podcasts.resonancefm.com. The show includes all manner of music – plenty of vinyl, old cassettes, CDs and a fair amount of anecdote and talk, connecting disparate tracks into curious musical narratives.
Hector Christie’s Stovies &
Salsa goes out on Mearns FM on Monday nights from 7-8pm.
www.mearnsfm.org.uk
From Sweden, SR Världen is a 24-hour global jukebox playing music from all over the world and across all genres. The playlist is constantly updated to include the latest releases and popular/ upcoming artists. The website publishes what’s being played (spellistor) and is synchronised with the streaming. To listen and find out more, go to
www.sr.se/srvarlden.
Ian Anderson’s online fRoots
Radio, featuring all the fRoots Playlist albums from page 5 and more from this issue, is available in podcast form – to which you can subscribe in iTunes via both Mondomix and Podomatic. Just go to
www.frootsmag.com and follow the links. As this is a double issue there’ll be a second programme going live mid-January as well as the one already available which coincides with publication.
Steve Heap with his AFO Award
We were sad to hear of the passing of soul singer Solomon Burke on 10th October, aged 70; of mandolinist Alison Stephens on 10th October aged 40; of reggae star Gregory Isaacs on 25th October aged 59; of rocksteady and reggae producer Sonia Pottinger on 9th November aged 79.
At this year’s AFO/ Folk Arts
England conference in November, Steve Heap was deservedly presented with a special award by the AFO members “in
acknowledgement of your work and tireless efforts in promoting, encouraging and raising the profile of folk, roots and acoustic music festivals”. Here here!
And our editor Ian Anderson
accepted the 2010 Womex Award (for ‘professional excellence’).Womex noted that “The independent media play such a crucial role for our kind of music business, part of us, supporting us
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and providing a vital forum… Now, more than ever is the time to show our support for an independent media.”
Emily Portman adds to her
Folk Awards and fRoots Critics Poll nominations by becoming one of The Arts Foundation’s four nominees for their first Award For Folk Music (the others are Anna Massie, Sam Lee and Trembling Bells drummer Alex Neilson). The finals will be held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 14th January in front of judges Joe Boyd, Shirley Collins and Seth Lakeman, and the winner receives an award of £10,000.
Congratulations to Eliza
Carthy and partner Aidan on the birth of second daughter Isabella Curran Carthy on 26th November.
MT Records are to start publishing some of the North American Traditions (NAT) series CDs that are no longer supported by Rounder Records. The first of these new releases features Art Galbraith, a fine Missouri fiddler, accompanied by Gordon McCann on guitar, with Dixie Blossoms.
www.mtrecords.co.uk
Hari Sivanesan: new World Routes mentee
From their February 2011 edition onwards, Maverick magazine will cease to produce a printed edition and in future will only be available by subscription online or as a downloadable PDF.
www.maverick-country.com
A call goes out to young musicians under the age of 25 who sing or play traditionally based music to enter for New Roots 2011. Whether traditional or contemporary folk, roots or world music, the organisers would like to hear from you. There are two categories, under 18 and 18- 24.
www.new-roots.org.uk
The folk and traditional musical instrument specialist Hobgoblin Music has opened a shop in Canterbury, stocking hundreds of acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, accordeons, ukuleles and many other traditional instruments from Britain and around the world.
www.hobgoblin.co.uk
The lucky winner of our
October issue’s competition for Stern’s 18 CD box set Africa 50 was Stephen Verde of Chester-le- Street, Co. Durham.
Emily Portman: nominations queen
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Phil Sofer
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