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Donockley Messages (Lantern Music); Joy Dunlop & Twelfth Day Fiere (Orange Feather); Samy Elmaghribi Jewish-Arab Song Treasures (Buda Musique); Warren Fahey’s Australian Bush Orchestra Music For Bush Dance & Campfire (ABC Music); Fairport Convention By Popular Request (Matty Grooves); Fairport Convention “Babbacombe” Lee Live Again (Matty Grooves); The Futureheads Rant (Nul Records); Ian Hardie A Breath Of Fresh Airs (Greentrax); Mariem Hassan El Aaiún Egdat (Nubenegra); Hatful Of RainWay Up On The Hill (Union Music Store); Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra Blood & Honey (Djukella Records); Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party Orfeo (Topic); Sayaka Ikuyama Light (Tambourine); Idder Music Of Skåne (KapSyd); Jagwa Music Bongo Hotheads (Crammed); Kan Sleeper (Kan Music); Angelique Kidjo Spirit Rising (Wrasse); The Kilfenora Ceili Band Chapter Eight (own label); Ensemble Al Kindî Le Salon De Musique d’Alep (Le Chant Du Monde); Lisa Knapp Hunt The Hare – A Branch Of May EP (Ear To The Ground); Aysenur Kolivar Bahçeye Hanzmeli (Kalan); Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs Demoni (Asphalt Tango); Evie Ladin Band (Evil Diane Records); Laako Laitinen & Väärä Raha Yö Rovaniemellä (Helmi Levyt); London Philharmonic Orchestra Ravi Shankar Symphony featuring Anouska Shankar (LPO); Loxandra Meyhane – Kafe Aman (Polyphonon); Gillie Mackenzie Griais (own label); Madredeus Essencia (Eter): Madredeus The Spirit Of Lisbon – The Very Best Of (Nascente); Vusi Mahlasela Say Africa (Wrasse Records); Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar The Best Of...Goldern Horns (Piranha); Malawi Mouse Boys He Is #1 (IRL); Mawkin Crow (Good Form); Ewan McLennan The Last Bird To Sing (Fellside); Menic Railroad Blues Anthology (Voodoo Rhythm Records); Mieko Miyazaki & Guo San Nen Nen Sui Sui (Daqui) Edmond Mondésir France: Martinique Bèlè, Tradition & Création (Ocora/Radio France); The Moors The Moors (Reality Street); Narasirato Warato’o (Smash); Nation Beat Growing Stone (BR033); Diana Navarro Flamenco (Warner); Karima Nayt Quoi D’Autre (Ajabu); Atri
Levon Helm
N’Assouf Akal (Atri Music); The Old Man School Chasing The Light (Transition Records); Pelios Gourmet! (Suvi Sounds); Chuck Perkins A Lovesong For Nola (Trikont); Place Klezmer Amerika! (Playasound); Emily Portman Hatchling (Furrow Records); Potir Gothic City (Skelis); Ralsgård & Tullberg Traditional Flute Music From Sweden (KapSyd); Dona Rosa Sou Luz (Jaro); Samech Quachatta (Tzadik); Sarazino Everyday Salama (Cumbancha); Claudia Schmidt Bend In The River (Red House Records); Darrell Scott Long Ride Home (Full Light); Pete Seeger The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960 (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings); Sheelanagig Cirque Insomnia (own label); Shir Ashk’farad (Arc); Jake Shulman-Ment A Wheel (Oriente Musik); Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Radio Salone (Cumbancha); Lise Sinclair & Ástvaldur Traustasson A Time To Keep (own label); Slim Chance The Show Goes On – Songs Of Ronnie Lane (Fishpool); Ronnie Smith Playtime In The Workhouse (No Tom Records); Momo Wandel Soumah Momo Le Doyen (Buda Musique); State Of Undress Journeys Of The Heart (Rosebud Music); Sutaras The Wonders Of The Beggar’s Kingdom (Kuku Records); Tarras Warn The Waters (own label); Ebo Taylor Appia Kwa Bridge (Strut); James Thomson/Chris Waite Borders: Young Pipers (Birnam); Titina Portrait (Network); Sidi Toure Koïma ((Thrill Jockey); Universalia In Re Grandes Bisioes (Sketis); Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat Twinklings Of Hope (Kirkelig Kulturverksted); Various Bear Songs, Harpes & Lyres From The Banks Of The Ob River (Musique Du Monde); Various A Highland Journey Vol. 2 – Music In The Glen (Greentrax); Various Beginner’s Guide To Salsa (Nascente); Various Folk Album (Sketis); Various The Mountain Music Project (own label); Various Radio Beirut – Sounds From The 21st Century (Galileo); Various We Juke Up In Here! (Broke & Hungry Records); Various The Willie Dixon Story (Proper); Anna Cinzia Villani Fummana, Mare E Focu! (AnimaMundi); Wabotaï Circle Songs (Buda); Warsaw Village Band Nord (Jaro); Anne Weiss Where Folk Gets The Blues
(own label); You Are Wolf Hunting Little Songs (own label); Ben Zabo Ben Zabo (Glitterhouse); Zieti Zemelewa (Grigri Discs).
MISC.
We were sad to hear of the passing of Oxfordshire folk musician Dave Parry, on 30th March; of Congolese likembe (thumb piano) player Antoine Moundanda on 2nd April, aged 84; of Dubliners founder Barney McKenna on 5th April aged 73; of French Hawaiian guitar ace Cyril Lefebvre, on 7th April aged 64; of Greek laïkó specialist, Dimitris Mitropanos on 17th April, aged 64; of Levon Helm, drummer with The Band, on 19th April aged 72; and of the man whose Play In A Day launched many a guitar career, Bert Weedon, on 20th April aged 91.
BBC Radio 3’s World On 3 (Fridays at 11pm) has Mary Ann Kennedy with guests Jim Moray (18th May), Roberto Fonseca (8th June) and Seth Lakeman (15th June), and Lopa Kothari with guest Vusi Mahlasela (25th May). Other June guests t.b.c. World Routes (Sundays 10.25pm) includes Moyshe Morad with highlights from the 2011 Jerusalem Oud Festival (20th May), two Colombia-related programmes as part of this year’s World Routes Academy (27th May & 24th June) and Lucy Duran in (surprise surprise!) Mali (17th June). Meanwhile the essential Late Junction continues Tues – Thurs at 11pm fronted by its rota of Fiona Talkington, Verity Sharp and Max Reinhardt, and including a couple of its collaborative sessions: between Carlos Ivan Medina and Wilson Cifuentes (31st May) and John Paul Jones and Erland Dahlen (21st June).
BBC Radio 2’s Mike Harding
(Wednesdays, 7pm) includes Bob Davenport marking his 80th birthday (30th May) and Jim Moray talking about his latest album Skulk (6th June).
BBC TV’s Mark Cooper reports that “A programme coming with a working title of Jools’ Songs Of London which
Barney McKenna
traces the sound and songs of London, searching for a London tone through broadside ballads and music hall up to London musical poets like Ray Davies, Suggs and Damon Albarn and featuring Eliza Carthy, Lisa Hannigan, Lucy Skeaping, Roy Hudd and an interview with Malcolm Taylor at Cecil Sharp House amongst the cast . BBC 2 early June, date and hour tbc.”
On SOAS Radio, DJ Ritu’s A
World In London (Wednesdays at 3pm) includes Rebet Asker (May 30th) and Daphna Sadeh.
http://soasradio.org/world-london
Julie Fowlis and Chris
Wright have been appointed as artists in residence for the Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches website. The two musicians will acts as ambassadors for the oral archive project within the arts, community and education sectors and also look for potential collaborations with other traditional artists.
www.tobarandualchais.co.uk
Morris Offspring and artist Jack Honeysett have curated a Morris Photography exhibition at Cecil Sharp House which runs until September. Also at Cecil Sharp House this month: Dave Arthur’s definitive biography of the folk legend A.L.Lloyd – Bert – The Life & Times Of A. L. Lloyd (Pluto Press) is launched on 31st May; a book launch of The New Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs (12th June); and Ballrooms Of Joys & Sorrows – a dance theatre production drawing on English folk traditions.
www.efdss.org
The English Folk Dance &
Song Society has secured a grant of £585,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to archive, conserve and digitise materials from six archives containing some of the country's most important folk music collections, and allow free public access to 58,400 collection items through a new web portal. The Full English project will bring together the collections of Harry Albino, Lucy Broadwood, Clive Carey, Percy Grainger, Maud Karpeles, Frank Kidson, Thomas Fairman Ordish, Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alfred Williams for the first time, to create the most comprehensive searchable database of British folk songs, tunes, dances and customs in the world.
www.efdss.org
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