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Stambeli, The Legacy Of The Black Tunisians (Par Les Chemins); Various 80s World Music Classics (Nascente); The Wailin’ Jennys Bright Morning Stars (True North); Abigail Washburn City Of Refuge (Rounder); Watcha Clan Radio Babel (Piranha); Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight The Days That Shaped Me (One Little Indian); Bruce Wilson M’appen I May – A Collection Of Cumbrian Songs (Haystack - CD & Songbook); Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley Idiom (Geo Sound); Toni Xucla & Solo Kouyate Duna (Temps); Yom & The Wonder Rabbis With Love (Buda); Zapatango Tan Sensible (Zimbraz).
DVDs Xose Manuel Budino
Volta (Falca Trua Da); Bert Jansch Conundrum In Concert, 1980 (Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop); John Fahey On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean (Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop); Korrontzi & Oinkari Dantza Taldea Infernuko Hauspoa (Baga-Biga); Ali Farka Touré A Visit To Ali Farka Touré (Digital Classics).
MISC.
We were sad to hear of the passing of KwaZulu-Natal maskanda musician Shiyani Ngcobo on 18th Feb aged 57; of veteran London musician Mac McGann, also on 18th Feb; of artist, writer and muse Suze Rotolo on 24th Feb aged 67, and of bluesman Eddie Kirkland on 27th Feb aged 88.
April’s BBC Radio 3 World
On 3 (Fridays at 11.15pm) has Lopa Kothari presenting Watcha Clan (1st) and Tulipa (8th), and Mary Ann Kennedy hosting Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (15th) and Emmylou Harris (22nd). Lucy Duran’s World Routes (Saturdays at 3pm) includes Nassima and Claudia Aurora (2nd), Raf Vilar (16th), a repeat of Lucy Duran’s documentaries on Madagascar (16th & 23rd), World Routes Academy protege Hari Sivanesan in Chenai (30th).
The Spinners are to be
awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Acoustic Festival Of Great Britain.
Shiyani Ngcobo
Spiral Earth website’s 2011 award winners include: Best Album – Nancy Kerr & James Fagan Twice Reflected Sun; Instrumental Album – Mabon Live At The Grand Pavilion; Best Debut – O’Hooley & Tidow Silent June; Male Singer – Chris Wood; Female Singer – Hazel Askew; Best Duo – Megson; Best Group – Oysterband; Trad Song – Emily Portman – Two Sisters; Original Song – Megson –Working Town; Musician – Phil Beer; Live Act – 3 Daft Monkeys; Special Award – Jon Boden – A Folk Song A Day.
www.spiralearth.co.uk
Fairport’s Cropredy
Convention has won an industry award at the TPi Awards as Britain’s friendliest music festival.
Bristol Folk Festival’s Isambard nu-Folk Award was won by Cardiff band Under The Driftwood Tree, who play “a chilled eclectic mix of surf-folk acoustic music”.
Lost Folk Tapes aims to be an online archive of forgotten and nearly forgotten folk recordings roughly from 1965 to 1985 – not a bootleg site but a place where the artists and performers can choose to have sound files of some of their songs put up to listen to, along with photos, histories, tall tales and so on. For people who have reissued their lost folk recordings, there will be details of how to buy them and for those artists still gigging and/or recording, links to their websites. Send an email for more details or contact Lost Folk Tapes directly at
contact@lostfolktapes.com
EFDSS has launched a Folk Educators Group, a new way for folk arts educators to come together and network, share ideas and provide peer support. The group is open to anyone involved in folk arts education, or anyone from the wider education community that would be interested in finding out more. It is aimed at those in England, but is open to practitioners from across the UK as a forum for sharing work, networking, sharing knowledge, developing ways of moving forward, and celebrating the best of folk arts education. The group aims to meet around 3 times a year, at various locations in England. To register for the Folk Educators Group, or for
Gateway Drug by David Owen. Visit
www.theinkcorporation.co.uk for prints, postcards, pop folk art and other beautiful things.
more information about the project, call 020 7485 2206 or visit
www.efdss.org
The folk song manuscripts of Sabine Baring-Gould – folklorist, archaeologist, novelist and scholar – have now been added to the Take 6 website, part of the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s site. Hundreds of pages from Baring- Gould’s notebooks have been scanned and are now available for searching alongside the rest of the Take 6 archive collection. The Baring-Gould digital archive was created by Wren Music as part of the Devon Tradition project. Access the Take 6 collection
Suze Rotolo (right) with an apprentice
including the Baring-Gould archive at:
http://library.efdss.org/archives
The National Centre for Excellence In Traditional Music has launched an online petition
www.gopetition.com/petition/424 95.html to help stave off closure.
The lucky winner of our
Jan/Feb issue’s competition with all 90 CDs from our 2010 Playlist charts as the prize was Andre Havard of Wellingborough. He correctly identified the four labels who each got three albums listed in 2010 as Nonesuch, Rif Mountain, Soundway and Sterns. Don’t play them all at once!
Prizewinner and stash…
Photo: Anna Kemp
Photo: Don Hunstein
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