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(Riverboat); Tommy Ridgeley & Bobby Mitchell In The Same Old Way (Ace); Rosapaeda In A Different Stylee (Felmay); David Salvado Lobos (Fol Musica); Sandum Trio Evig Runddans (Etknisk Musikklubb); Neti Sanyi Szegelet (Fono); The Saturnalia Trio Skin, Wood & Steel (own label); Seasons Seasons (own label); Sheehan Smith & Sheehan Down In The Valley (own label); Tom Shepley’s Band How Do You Do? (Epona); María Símoglou Ensemble Minóre Manés (Buda Musique); Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal Musique De Nuit (No Format); Sketch Highland Time (Skye); The Slocan Ramblers Coffee Creek (own label); J.B.Smith No More Good Time In The World For Me (Dust To Digital); Rudy Smith What Pan Did For Me (Caprice); Spillemand! Musik fra Carls Nielsens Barndom (Go’ Discs); Stick In The Wheel From Here (From Here); Geir Sundstøl Furulund (Hubro); Jitka Suranaská & Iréb Lovász & Michal Elia Kamal Tri Hlasy/Three Voices (Indies Scope); Talisk Pinnacle 67 (own label); Tampa Red The Unsung King Of The Blues (Ace); Eddie Taylor Jr. Stop Breaking Down (Wolf); Steve Tilston Truth To Tell (Hubris); Topette!! Chez Michel EP (own label); Shankar Tucker Filament (own label); The Umoza Music Project Let Them Speak (Umoza Music); Various Appelfolk (Appel Rekords); Various A Tribute To Ewan MacColl (Cooking Vinyl); Various Bali 1928, Vol. II: Tembang Kuna (World Arbiter); Various The Banjo Bands Of Malawi (Field Recordings by Moya Aliya Malamusi) DVD (Vestapol); Various The Best Arabic Music You’ve Never Heard (World Music Network); Various Boppin’ By The Bayou: Rock Me Mama (Ace); Various Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll (Dust To Digital); Various Land Of Hope & Fury (Union Music Store); Various My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean: British Songs In The USA (Nehi); Various The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cumbia (World Music Network); Various The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Samba (World Music Network); Ventanas Arrelumbre (own label); Vishten Terre Rouge (Les Productions Takashoun); Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne Never No More Blues (Ripple); Vula Viel

Lucy Ward – new CD

Good Is Good (own label); Unaja Unaja (own label); The Waifs Beautiful You (Compass); Lucy Ward I Dreamt I Was A Bird (Betty Beetroot); Kitty Wells and Johnnie & Jack DVD (Shanachie); Woody PinesWoody Pines (Muddy Roots Music).

MISC.

We were sad to hear of the passing of bluesman Robert Johnson’s son and sole heir (as adjudged by Mississippi Supreme Court), Claud Johnson, on 30th June, aged 83; of Bristol area folk writer, activist and caller Tony Slinger on 4th July; of Mexican singer/songwriter Joan Sebastian on 12th July aged 64; of folk singer and actor Theodore Bikel on 21st July aged 91; of steel guitarist Buddy Emmons on 21st July aged 78; of Patsy Stoneman of the USA’s Stoneman Family on 23rd July aged 90; of blues authority Don Kent on 9th August aged 71; of record producer Bob Johnston (“Is it rolling, Bob?”) on 14th August aged 83; of Senegalese master drummer Doudou N’Diaye Rose on 19th August aged 85, and of Sahrawi singer Mariem Hassan on 22nd August aged 57.

Studio guests announced at

press date for BBC Radio 2’s The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe (every Wednesday at 7pm) were Megan Henwood (16th Sept); Barrule (30th); Damien O’Kane (14th Oct); Emily Portman (4th Nov) and Lynched (11th Nov).

BBC Radio 3’s World On 3 (Fridays at 11pm) has Hindustani and Carnatic ragas from the Darbar Festival (18th Sept); Mary Ann Kennedy presenting on 2nd Oct, Lopa Kothari on 9th & 16th Oct and then programmes from Womex in Budapest (23rd & 30th, the former live).

DJ Ritu's A World In

London (Wednesdays at 6.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM, and online) features Hyelim Kim (23rd Sept), Choi Jeunghyun (30th), Sam Lee & Shzr Ee Tan (7th Oct), Bahareque (14th), Stepan Pasicznyk (21st), and Ngawang Lodup (t.b.c. 28th).

Five people who have made key contributions to the folk arts have become the latest recipients of Gold Badge awards from the English Folk Dance & Song Society (EFDSS) including our very own editor Ian Anderson, singer and composer John Tams, founders of Wren Music Marilyn Tucker and Paul Wilson, and writer and researcher Rollo Woods. Alan James, Chair of EFDSS, said: "I am delighted that Ian, John, Marilyn, Paul, and Rollo have been recognised for the important role they have played in their individual fields. All of them have helped to inspire, support and inform generations of folk fans which enables the traditional English folk arts to continue to thrive. They are all very well- deserved awards."

The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) has also announced four recipients of its 2015/16 round of Creative Artist Residencies: Ange Hardy – researching and writing new song material based on stories in daily newspapers; Liam Robinson – creating a

contemporary song cycle based on the work collected by composer Percy Grainger in Lincolnshire; Lucy Farrell – researching and recording traditional material with a new music ensemble focusing on songs from her home county of Kent and John Dipper, Dave Malkin, Hattie Vail and Helen Penn – developing a unique music and dance collaboration focusing on the gravity-defying elements of morris dancing. www.efdss.org

The British Council and PRS For Music Foundation have announced residencies in China for Bella Hardy and Kerry Andrew, offering them the opportunity to create original work and explore new international influences while reaching and inspiring new audiences.

Hands Up For Trad’s 2015 performer inductees to the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame are: Ossian, The Singing Kettle, Seonaidh Macmillan, Maureen Jelks, Violet Tulloch, Willie Scott, Matt McGinn, G.S. McLennan, Angus Fitchet and Iain Mackintosh.The inductees will be celebrated as part of Blas Festival. www.blas-

festival.com/inverness-airport.html Doudou N’Diaye Rose

Mariem Hassan

Paul Adams, co-founder of Fellside Recordings Ltd, has been given the ‘Services To British Jazz’ Award in the British Jazz Awards. and an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Cumbria in recognition of his lifelong and outstanding contribution to education and to the folk and jazz music industry. www.fellside.com

We were very surprised to

hear that Chris Wade, one of the original founding members of Beverley Folk Festival, and its artistic director for all of its 33 years, is no longer to be involved in future events. “I received an email from the Beverley Folk Festival directors terminating my contract with the festival – giving me a month’s notice,” she says. “This was a total shock to me as I have dedicated the last 33 years of my life to the festival and with the help of others, developed it into what has become one of the major festivals in this country… I do not want my departure to be perceived as voluntary and to confirm that I would never abandon the festival in such a manner.”

We bid a sad farewell with many thanks to our long time reviews editor and fashion footwear maven Stella Washburn who has been on lengthy leave following a cocktail incident. Sarah Coxson will take over full duties tending the review CDs mountain, and the bar.

Apologies to both Paul Slade

and Jerome Clark for a miscredited CD review last month. The Pokey LaFarge review should have been credited to Paul Slade.

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