Awards for World Music 2005

Awards for World Music 2005

Main article: World music (Awards)

World music awards are awards presented by broadcasting organizations such as the [BBC] and others to World music artists. The BBC presents awards every year. The hosts for the Awards for World Music 2005 Poll Winners' Concert were Eliza Carthy and Benjamin Zephaniah.

[edit] Festivals

There are many World Music festivals and jazz/folk/roots/new age crossover events. A small selection is represented here:

• The Ariano Folkfestival[2] is the biggest World Music festival in southern Italy, is held in middle August.
• The California World Music Festival is held each July at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
• The World Sacred Music Festival[3] is held annually in Olympia, Washington State, sponsored by Interfaith Works.^[9]
• FloydFest in Floyd, Virginia, USA. Has featured artists from a wide diversity of styles including Ani DiFranco, Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie, Trumystic, Nickel Creek and Akoya Afrobeat Enemble.
• The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, New York, USA. Has featured artists from a variety of world and ethnic music genres including Tinariwen, Thomas Mapfumo, Michael Franti, D'Gary, Boubacar Traore, Mamadou Diabate, and many more from around the world.
• The WOMAD Foundation puts on festivals in different countries all around the world and which have last year included artists such as Youssou N'Dour, Robert Plant and Jaojoby.^[10]
• The Festival in the Desert takes place every year at Essakane, near Timbuktu, in Mali, West Africa and has achieved international status in spite of the difficulties of reaching its location. ^[11][12]
• Rainforest World Music Festival is another world music festival held in Malaysia
• Stern Grove festival is a San Francisco celebration of musical and cultural diversity. Examples: Lucinda Williams, John Doe, Ojos de Brujo, O-Maya, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Funk Brothers and also symphony orchestras and operatic stars.
• The Starwood Festival has been held in July every year since 1981. Now situated in Sherman, NY, it has featured such world music acts as Amampondo, Babatunde Olatunji, Badal Roy, Sikiru Adepoju, the Prodigals, Yaya Diallo, Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band, Baka Beyond, Stephen Kent, Cyro Baptista, Airto Moreira, Muruga Booker, Gaelic Storm, and Halim El-Dabh.
• World Music Festival Lo Sguardo di Ulisse, one of the most important music event in Campania. Born in 1997, this festival is the main appointment of all the summer programme in Naples.

[edit] Germany

• TFF.Rudolstadt
• The German World Music Festival der Klangfreunde takes place every first weekend of August, at Schlosspark Loshausen. Klangfreunde e. V. is a Non-profit organization
• Wilde Töne, Karlsruhe ^[13]

[edit] Music labels

• Luaka Bop, David Byrne's music label
• New Earth Records
• Abonation Production (Malaysia
• Putumayo World Music
• Real World Records, Peter Gabriel's music label
• Dancing Turtle Records
• Rough Guide releases, produced by World Music Network
• Folkways series
• UNESCO Collection
• Nonesuch Explorer series
• Globe Style, sub-label of Ace Records (UK)
• Piranha Records
• Primary Music
• Crammed Discs
• Rootsy Records
• KZN (record label)
• Narada
• EarthSync
• M.E.L.T. 2000 (formerly Black & White Records)
• Green Linnet
• Ryko
• Hannibal Records
• Chesky Records
• Musart
• Omnium Records
• Six Degrees Records
• Shanachie Records
• Sublime Frequencies
• ARC Music