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The New Line (own label); Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton Declaration (own label); Laura Cannell Beneath Swooping Talons (Front & Follow); Eliza Carthy & Jim Moray The Wayward Tour Live DVD (Scarlet Records); Brian Chilala & Ngoma Zasu Vangaza! (SWP Records); Clype Clype (Other Music Records); Cuncordu E Tenore De Oresie Novaera (Buda Musique); Cupola Roam (own label); Donovan Retrospective (Union Square); The Dovetail Trio Wing Of Evening (RootBeat Records); Dubl Handi Morning In A New Machine (own label); The Earnest Lovers Sing Sad Songs (Elko Record Company); Electro Rumbaiao Electro Rumbaiao (Satélite K); Quique Escamilla 500 Years Of Night (Lulaworld Records); Ex Silentio Mneme (Carpe Diem Records); Feis Rois/ John Somerville The Voyage Of The Hector (Feis Rois); Gangbe Brass Band Go Slow To Lagos (Buda Musique); GentleFolk Into The Greenwood (Dharma Records); Leila Gobi Leila LP (Clermont Music); Groanbox Groanbox (Groanbox Records); Rachel Hair Trio Tri (March Hair Records); Keith Hancock Compassion (Epona); The Keith Hancock Band Live (Epona); Hillfolk Noir Pop Songs For Elk (own label); Sille Ilves Kannel (Libahundix); Joi Joi Sound System (RealWorld); Jungle By Night The Hunt (Kindred Spirits); Kardemimmit Omni (own label); Kaia Kater Sorrow Bound (Kingswood Records); Jens Kommnick Redwood (Siúnta Music); Julia Kubinyi Magam Jarom (Viva La Musica); KuKu Ballads & Blasphemy (Buda Musique); John Kruth The Drunken Wind Of Life: The Poem/Songs Of Tin Ujevic (Smiling Fez Records); Namgyal Lhamo An Anthology Of Tibetan Classical Songs (Papyrus); Tcha Limberger’s Budapest Gypsy Orchestra Feke Éjszaka Borulj A Világra (Le Jazz Etal); Ismaël Lô Best Of (Capitol Music France); Lonnigans Skiffle Group A Tribute To Lead Belly (Lonnigan Records); Dorance Lorza & Sexteto Café DNA (Abanico Salsa); Maja & David CPH-Café- YUL (Go’ Danish Folk Music); Iness Mezel Strong (Wrasse Records); Midival Punditz Light (Six Degrees); Iain Morrison Eas (Peat Fire Smoke Records); Moore Moss Rutter II (RootBeat Records); Ross

Hillfolk Noir – new CD

Munro Twisted Tradition (Greentrax); MultiDelta L’Arborescence Des Sources (Appel Rekords); Old Man Luedecke Domestic Eccentric (True North Records); Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Music For An Elliptical Orbit (Diatribe Records); Marie Orr Jenny Does Burn (own label); The Outside Track Light Up The Dark (Lorimer Records); Fiona & Gorwel Owen Releasing Birds (Ofn Records); Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton Recorded Music For Your Entertainment (Beaumont Records); Brigid Power-Ryce I Told You The Truth (Abandon Reason); Mike Reinstein A Long March Home (Irregular Records); The Mather Robinson Band Carousel For Fools (own label); Seiva Seiva (Bigorna); Anoushka Shankar Home (Deutsche Grammophon); Sharon Shannon & Alan Connor In Galway (IRL); She Shanties Spanker Boom (own label); The Soil Nostalgic Moments (Native Rhythms); Warren Storm The Bad Times Make The Good Times (Ace Records); Sver Fryd (Folkhall Records); Swing The Lead Danger (Talking Elephant); The Teacups Of Labour And Love (Haystack); Various Amplificador (Far Out Recordings); Various Dust On The Nettles: A Journey Through The British Underground Folk Scene 67-72 (Cherry Red Records); Various Flamenco Top (Disc Medi Blau); Various Out Of Many, One Music! (Fantastic Voyage); Various Shirley Inspired (Earth Recordings); Various Sulle Rive Del Tango - Aniversario (Agualoca Records); We Banjo 3 Live In Galway (own label); White Sun White Sun (own label); Yakumbé Yakumbé (own label); Frank Yamma Uncle (Wantok Music).

MISC.

We were sad to hear of the death of leading figure in the German liedermacher (song- maker) movement, Walter Mossmann on 29th May, aged 73; of American traditional singer and dulcimer player Jean Ritchie, on 2nd June aged 92; of the Weavers’ Ronnie Gilbert on 6th June aged 88; Wendell Holmes of the Holmes Brothers, on 19th

Jean Ritchie

June aged 71; and of former Fairport drummer Bruce Rowland on 30th June aged 74.

Our congratulations to the

Green Note, Parkway, London NW1 on winning the London's Favourite Music Venue Award at the recent London Music Awards, beating all the major venues.

The first showcase acts for

WOMEX 15 are confirmed, taking place from 21st – 25th October in Budapest, Hungary including: Alo Wala (Denmark/USA), Aziza Brahim (Western Sahara/ Mali/ Spain), Baraji (South Korea), Bella Hardy (UK), Chouk Bwa Libète (Haiti), Cimbalomduó (Hungary), Didier Laloy & Kathy Adam (Belgium), Emicida (Brazil), Forabandit (Turkey/France), Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha (Finland), Iberi (Georgia), Moh! Kouyate (Guinea/France), Nine Treasures (China), Palenke Soultribe (Colombia/USA), Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), Pierre Kwenders (DR Congo/ Canada), Tarek Abdallah & Adel Shams El-Din (Egypt/ France), Trumpeter Avishai Cohen's Triveni (Israel), Vaudou Game (Togo/France). womex.com

As part of the Celebrating

Africa series, the British Museum in London features an exhibition, running until 16th August, featuring a 19th-century lyre, known as a kissar, from Nubia in northern Sudan. The exhibition explores the historical and contemporary cultural significance of the lyre, and showcases the artistic qualities of one of the most remarkable objects in the

Museum's collection. Celebrating Africa coincides with the ten-year anniversary of the Commission for Africa, and the launch of the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There will be a gallery talk by Elsbeth Court, SOAS, on The Iconic Sudanese Lyre In African Art History on 7th Aug. www.britishmuseum.org

A free online resource has been launched by the English Folk Dance & Song Society (EFDSS). The Resource Bank – which is freely available to anyone to browse at www.efdss.org/ resourcebank – aims to encourage more people to learn about traditional music, dance, drama, other arts and customs. It is the lasting legacy project of EFDSS' celebrated project, The Full English, which saw the digitisation of thousands of English folk manuscripts to create the world's largest free online searchable database from some of the country's most important folk music collections.

In addition to their usual CDs and booklets in DVD cases, Musical Traditions Records are now providing a new

downloadable format for their releases which contain the complete (and updated) booklet text from the original albums, with all the songs/tunes available as links to complete MP3 recordings from within the text All the downloads are now available from gumroad.com, via links in the special Downloads page at www.mtrecords.co.uk

Immy & Risa of the Green Note with their London Music Award.