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Songlines Music Awards 2012 – And the winners are…
Posted on April 25th, 2012 in News, Recent Posts by Alexandra Petropoulos.
With the Songlines Music Awards now in their fourth year, we are delighted to announce this year’s winners.
The awards recognise outstanding talent in world music and are voted by Songlines readers and the general public. There are four categories: Best Artist, Best Group, Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Newcomer – the results from the initial vote generate the final nominees, the top four in each category.
The winners, selected by the Songlines editorial team and listed below, are published in the June issue of Songlines (#84).
A 16-track compilation album featuring the winners and all nominees is out now on CD and download (you can listen to tracks from the CD below). A Songlines Music Awards 2012 app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is also available to download for free from the iTunes App store.
And the winners are…
BEST ARTIST
Anoushka Shankar
(For the album Traveller on DG)
BEST GROUP
Tinariwen
(For the album Tassili on V2)
CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATION
Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
(For the album Goat Rodeo Sessions on Sony Classical)
NEWCOMER
Fatoumata Diawara
(For the album Fatou on World Circuit)
Watch our short film on the Songlines Music Awards 2012 winners with live performances and an introduction by editor-in-chief Simon Broughton:
YouTube Playlist #81
Posted on December 15th, 2011 in Recent Posts by Alexandra Petropoulos.
Now that you’ve had a chance to read about all the exciting music featured in the current issue of Songlines, don’t forget that you can watch it and listen to it too. Each issue, we create a YouTube playlist of featured videos to help give the full interactive experience. You can view the playlist here.
Some of the highlights of this issue’s videos include:
Calle 13 swept the Latin Grammys this November (read more in our Latin feature on pg32-37)
Inside the Goat Rodeo Sessions with Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan (read more in our feature pg38-41)
Baloji’s ‘Independance Cha-Cha’ (read more on pg42-45)
Click here to see our YouTube playlist for issue #81 (Jan/Feb 2012).
