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…
Roskilde Festival Gives World Music Award to Egyptian Center for Local Music
Category: Awards
Indian Summer Music Awards Announce 2011 Winners
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…
WOMEX 2011 Announces Label Award Winner
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…
German Record Critics’ Award Goes to Jodulator
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…
Francis Falceto Wins WOMEX 2011 Professional Excellence Award
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…
Ray Santos Receives The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Trustees Award
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 innovator Ruben Rada Receives 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Latin Recording Academy
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…
José Feliciano Receives 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Latin Recording Academy
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…
Gal Costa Receives 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Latin Recording Academy
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,…
The Latin Recording Academy Announces 2011 Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Latin Recording Academy announced this week that the late Joe Arroyo (who died this week), Gal Costa, José Feliciano, Alex Lora, Les Luthiers, Rubén…