The Winnipeg Folk Festival announced that folk legend Oscar Brand will receive the festival’s 2011 Artistic Achievement Award. The award recognizes outstanding artistic achievement of…
The board of the Roskilde Festival World Music Award (Denmark) has chosen the El Mastaba Center for Folk Music as the 2011 recipient of the…
Over 50,000 people of all nationalities and cultures attended the 2011 Indian Summer Festival at the Henry Maier Festival Grounds on the Milwaukee shorefront from…
The 2011 WOMEX Label Award Label Award goes to World Village / Le Chant du Monde / harmonia mundi (France/USA/UK/Spain) They will be receiving the…
The Association of German Record Critics’ has given the German Record Critics’ Award to Austrian band Hotel Palindrone for its album Jodulator, as a recording…
Frenchman Francis Falceto is the winner of WOMEX 2011’s Professional Excellence Award. Francis Falceto is the originator and curator of the Ethiopiques series of CDs…
Mambo innovator Ray Santos has received The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Trustees Award. Heralded as “El Maestro” of the mambo sound, Ray Santos has performed,…
Afro-Uruguayan percussionist, composer and singer Ruben Rada is one of the recipients of the The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award. Ruben Rada, also…
Puerto Rican musician José Feliciano is one of the recipients of the The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award. Seven-time GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY…
Brazilian star Gal Costa is one of the recipients of the The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award. One of Brazil’s most popular singers,…