The Recording Academy announced its Special Merit Lifetime Achievement Awards recipients today, December 21st, 2011. Brazilian arranger, singer and pianist/guitarist Antonio Carlos Jobim is one…
Dissidenten, the German band that pioneered world fusion by collaborating with musicians from India, Spain, Morocco and other parts of the globe, will receive the…
The winners of the 7th Annual Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMAs) were announced on Sunday, December 4th at Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre. World music powerhouse…
BBC Radio 3’s World On 3 announced this evening the winners of the fRoots Critics Poll Albums Of 2011. The winners are: Album of 2011…
The 2011 ARIA Awards (Australia’s leading music awards) were presented last night in a star studded ceremony held at Allphones Arena in Sydney Olympic Park…
Egyptian singer Ramy Essam received the Freemuse Award 2011 at a ceremony held on November 21st of 2011 at the Södra Teatern in Stockholm, Sweden.…
Senegalese musician Elage Diouf won the GALAXIE Rising Stars Award after being selected by a jury composed of Patrick Binette (GALAXIE), Jacob Edgar (PBS’s “Music…
The winners of the 12th Latin GRAMMY Awards were announced today, November 10th, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Winners in categories…
The Winners for the 13th Annual Native American Music Awards were announced live on Friday, October 7th, 2011 in the Events Center of the Seneca…
Professor Theodore Levin has won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his liner notes to volumes 7, 8 and 9 of the ‘Music of Central…