FolkWorld Issue 41 03/2010

Highlights Folk, Trad & Roots 2009

++ FolkWorld's Recommendations ++ World Music Charts Europe ++ fRoots ++ Germany ++ German Record Critics ++ BBC Radio 2 ++ Scotland ++ Ireland ++ Scandinavia ++ USA ++ Native American, Blues & Bluegrass ++ Canada ++ Australia ++

FolkWorld's Recommendations

Paul McKenna Band
... the most impressive new band for quite a while ...
The Editors' Best Loved Albums:

Fuxan os Ventos "Terra e Sonos"
The McCalmans "Coming Home - live"
Paul McKenna Band "Between Two Worlds"
Robert Metcalf "Vier Kerzen"
Na h-Òganaich "Gun Stad"
Tamburellisti di Torrepaduli "Taranta Taranta"

Adolf Goriup's Best Loved Albums:

Fairport Convention "Fame and Glory"
John Jones "Rising Road"
Billy Lavender "Memphis Livin'"
Albert Niland "The Hungry Ghost"
Santeria "Bad Habit"
Schandmaul "Sinnfonie"
Soothsayers "One more Reason"
Strömkarlen "…spelar"
Violet "Modern Life"
Kevin Crawford & Cillian Vallely
... among the top duet recordings of recent years ...

Young Dubliners "Saints and Sinners"

Alex Monaghan's Best Loved Albums:

Catherine Fraser & Duncan Smith "Rhymes & Reasons"
Holly Geraghty & Jonathan Roche "Ceolmhar"
Steph Geremia "The Open Road"
Guidewires "Live"
Brett Lipshutz & Randy Lee Gosa "Night and Day"
Lauren MacColl "Strewn with Ribbons"
The Red Wellies "The Red Wellies"
Samantha Robichaud "Collected"
Wendy Stewart & Gary West "Hinterlands"
Cillian Vallely & Kevin Crawford "On Common Ground"

Karsten Rube's Best Loved Albums:

Cristina Branco "Kronos"
Chambao "Con otro Aire"
La Talvera
... one of the best Occitan albums ever ...

Vanessa DaMata "Sim"
Deolinda "Canção ao lado"
Paula Morelenbaum "Telecoteco"
Carlos Nuñez "Alborada do Brasil"
Maria Rita "Samba Meu"
Sting "If on a Winters Night"
Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko "Africa to Appalachia"
Tinariwen "Imidiwan"

Eelco Schilder's Best Loved Albums:

Bellowhead "Matachin"
Koby Israelite "Is He Listening"
Nynke Laverman "Nomad"
Frank London & Lorin Sklamberg "Tsuker-zis"
Roosbeef "Ze willen wel je hond aaien maar niet met je praten"
Soname "Plateau"
Storsveit Nix Noltes "Royal family divorce"
La Talvera "Sopac & Patac"
Valravn "Koder på snor"
Dazkarieh
... one of the highlights of 2009 ...

James Yorkston & the Big Eyes Family Players "Folk songs"

Walkin' Tom's Best Loved Albums:

An Lar "Yarn"
Mara Aranda & Solatge "Deria"
Danar "Danar"
Dazkarieh "Hemisférios"
Hey Negrita "Burn the Whole Place Down"
Hot Griselda "Hot Griselda"
Brian McNeill "The Baltic tae Byzantium"
Doğan Mehmet "Gypsyhead"
Transkaakko "Kulo"
The Unwanted "Music from the Atlantic Fringe"

Reissue of the Year: Paul Brady "Welcome Here Kind Stranger"



World Music Charts Europe:
Psarantonis
www.wmce.de
www.womex.com

1 Oumou Sangare "Seya"
2 Staff Benda Bilili "Tres Tres Fort"
3 Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara "Tell No Lies"
... Baaba Maal "Television", Mara Aranda & Solatge "Deria", Shantel "Planet Paprika", Deolinda "Canção ao lado", Titi Robin "Kali sultana", Alamaailman Vasarat "Huuro kolkko", Rotfront "Emigrantski Raggamuffin", Radiokijada "Nuevos Sonidos Afro Peruanos", Lila Downs "Shake Away", Amsterdam Klezmer Band "Zaraza", Ljiljana Butler "Frozen roses", La Banda del Pepo "Tanto Por Hacer", Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingi "Gurrumul", Boban I Marko Markovic "Devla", 17 Hippies "El Dorado", No Blues "Lumen", The Klezmatics "Wonderwheel", Blick Bassy "Léman", Kari Bremnes "Ly", Psarantonis "Mountain Rebels", Ramesh B. Weeratunga "This is", Fanfare Ciocarlia "Live", Valravn "Koder på snor", Die Strottern "I gabat ois", V/A "Polska Rootz", ...

Womex Awards: Staff Benda Bilili, Christian Mousset



fRoots Best Albums:
Bella Hardy
www.frootsmag.com

1. Staff Benda Bilili "Très Très Fort"
2. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba "I Speak Fula"
3. Oumou Sangare "Seya"
4. Martin Simpson "True Stories"
..., Baaba Maal "Television", Les Triaboliques "Rivermudtwilight", Mawkin:Causley "The Awkward Recruit", Brass Monkey "Head of Steam", Tim Eriksen "Northern Roots - Live in Namest", Julie Fowlis "Uam", Bella Hardy "In the Shadow of Mountains", Lau "Arc Light" Radio Kijada "Nuevos Sonidos Afro Peruanos", Devon Sproule "Don't hurry for Heaven!", ...

Reissues and Compilations: V/A "Three Score & Ten: A Voice To The People", Värttinä "25"

Best Packaged Album: V/A "Three Score & Ten: A Voice To The People"



Deitsch, TFF.Rudolstadt 2009
www.folker.de
www.weltmusikpreis.de
www.creole-weltmusik.de
www.liederbestenliste.de
www.malzhaus.de
www.bluesfest-eutin.de
www.hans-hamburger-musikpreis.de
www.musiker-online.de
www.amadeusawards.at

Die Strottern

Folker Special CDs:

Tine Kindermann "Schamlos schön", Landor "Griffig", Pete Seeger "At 89", 2Duos "Until the Cows Come Home", Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80, Gregory Jolivet "Alt'o Solo", Deitsch "Heimat", John Jones "Rising Road", ewo2 "... in dieser Zeit - Avantipopolo 2", Johannes Kirchberg "Über die Verhältnisse", Céu "Vagarosa", Mahsa Vahdat & Mighty Sam McClain "Scent of Reunion", Hot Griselda "Hot Griselda", Eilidh Mackenzie "Bel Canto", ...

German World Music Awards (RUTH):
Deutsche RUTH: Hans Söllner
Globale RUTH: Aly Keita
Ehren-RUTH I: Alan Bern & Brave Old World
Ehren-RUTH II: Günter Gretz

CREOLE World Music Awards:
East Affair, Aly Keita & The Magic Balafon, The Shin

Liederbestenliste:
Liederpreisträger: Dziuks Küche: Regenlied

Eisener Eversteiner:
Jurypreis: Hotel Palindrone

German Blues Challenge:
Solist/Duo: Georg Schroeter und Marc Breitfelder
Band: Hootin’ The Blues

HANS - Der Hamburger Musikpreis: Gisbert zu Knyphausen

Deutscher Rock & Pop Preis:
Deutscher Song Preis: Martina Gemmar
Instrumentalsolist: Crazy Chris Kramer
Rock-Kabarett: Martina Gemmar
Folkrocksängerin: Paul Simpson Project
Folkrockband: Paul Simpson Project

Amadeus Austrian Music Awards:
Künstler des Jahres Jazz/World/Blues: Die Strottern



The German Record Critics' Awards:
Dziuk's Südbalkon
www.schallplattenkritik.de

Marianne Faithful "Easy Come Easy Go"
Bob Dylan "Together Through Life"
Dziuks Küche "Freche Tattoos auf blutjungen Bankiers"
Lila Downs "Shake Away"
V/A "Obacht! – Musik aus Bayern"
Cara Dillon "Hill of Thieves"
Strom & Wasser "Emotionsdesign"
Stockholm Lisboa Project "Diagonal"
ewo2 "... in dieser Zeit - Avantipopolo 2"
Deitsch "Heimat"
Psarantonis & The Ensemble Xylouris "Mountain Rebels"
Kally Darm "Fishing, More Delta Blues and Beyond"


Cara Dillon
www.bbc.co.uk
www.spiralearth.co.uk

Chris Wood

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards:

Folk Singer of the Year: Jon Boden
Best Duo: Show of Hands
Best Group: Lau
Best Album: Cara Dillon "Hill of Thieves"
Best Traditional Track: "Sir Patrick Spens" (Martin Simpson)
Musician of the Year: John Kirkpatrick
Best Live Act: Bellowhead
Good Tradition Award: Transatlantic Sessions
Lifetime Achievement Award: Nanci Griffith
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dick Gaughan

BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award:

Winner: James Findlay
Finalists: Cinnte, Niamh Boadle, The Carrivick Sisters, Mairi and Steaphanaidh Chaimbeul, Christ Keatinge

The Spiral Award:

Instrumental Album: Fiddlers' Bid "All Dressed In Yellow"
Compilation (or best of) Album: Chris Wood "Albion"
Original Song: "Walking Through Ithonside" (John Jones)
Trad Song: "Jimmy Mó Mhíle Stór" (Cara Dillon)
Male Singer: Seth Lakeman
Female Singer: Cara Dillon
Group: Bellowhead
Live Act: Demon Barbers
Debut: The QP "Intro"
DVD: Bellowhead "Live at Shepherds Bush Empire"



Dick Gaughan
www.handsupfortrad.co.uk
Scots Trad Music Awards:

Album of the Year: Fiddlers' Bid "All Dressed In Yellow"
Composer of the Year: Mairearad Green
Gaelic Singer of the Year: Christine Primrose
Instrumentalist of the Year: Lauren MacColl
Live Act of the Year: Lau
Scottish Folk Band of the Year: Bodega
Up & Coming Artist of the Year: Paul McKenna Band
Services to Gaelic Music: Na h-Òganaich
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame: Bill Black, Dick Gaughan, Rona Lightfoot, Jim Kilpatrick, Phil Cunningham, Sheena Wellington

BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician: Ruairidh Macmillan



Mairtin O'Connor Band

Saw Doctors

Cara

www.irelandsmusicawards.com
www.irishmusicawards.com
www.liveireland.com
www.tg4.ie
meteormusicawards.meteor.ie
fiddlersgreenfestival.co.uk

Ireland's Music Awards:

Best Overseas Act: Cherish the Ladies
Best Instrumentalist: Mike McGoldrick
Best Irish Traditional Group: Sharon Shannon Band
Best Contemporary Act (With Trad, Folk or Celtic influence): Saw Doctors
Best Overseas Act (Europe Excluding Ireland): Carlos Nunez
Best Young Irish Traditional Act: Teáda
Best Newcomer (Act or Performer): The High Kings
Best Folk Group: The High Kings
Best Revival Act: Moving Hearts
Best Crossover Act (Performer or Group): Frankie Gavin & Hibernian Rhapsody
Best Folk or Celtic Duo: Seamus Begley & Jim Murray
Hall of Fame Award: The Kilfenora Ceili Band

Irish Music Awards:

Best New Irish Music Artist(s): Cara
Top Traditional Performance Show: The High Kings
Top Uilleann Piper: John McSherry
Top Button Accordian: John Whelan
Lifetime Achievement Award: Donal Lunny

liveIreland Awards:

Female Vocal Album of the Year: Kat Eggleston "Speak"
Male Musician of the Year: Kieran Munnelly (David Munnelly Band)
Compendium Album of the Year: Shona McMillan "People and Songs of the Sea"
Composer of the Year: Denis Carey
Female Vocalist of the Year: Deirdre Scanlan
Instrumental Album of the Year: The Mulcahy Family "Reelin' in Tradition"
Instrumental Cut of the Year: Martin Simpson: Swooping Molly ("True Stories")
Trad Fusion Album of the Year: Matt and Shannon Heaton "Lover’s Well"
Female Musician of the Year: Shannon Heaton
Vocal/Instrumental Album of the Year: The David Munnelly Band "Tight Squeeze"
Special Merit of the Year: Fiona Mackenzie "A Good Suit of Clothes"
Album of the Year: Mick Moloney "If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews"

TG4 Gradam Ceoil (Traditional Music Awards):

Gradam Ceoil: Seán McKiernan
Ceoltóir Óg na bliana (Young Musician): Aidan O’Donnell
Gradam Saoil (Hall of Fame): Seán Potts
Amhránaí na Bliana (Singer): Cathal McConnell

Meteor Music Awards:

Best Irish Male: Christy Moore
Best Traditional/Folk: Sharon Shannon

Fiddler's Green Awards:

The Fiddler's Green Hall of Fame Award: Máirtín O'Connor



Afenginn
www.folkemusik.dk
www.grammis.se
Danish Music Awards:

Best Traditional Artist: Henrik Jansberg
Best Contemporary Artist: Afenginn
Best Composer: Nikolaj Busk
Best Debut: Hal & Nikolaj
Best Album: ZAR "Der Brænder en Ild"
Best Blues Album: Tim Lothar "In It for the Ride"
Best Foreign Album: Hans Theessink & Terry Evans "Visions"

Swedish Grammis:
Best Folk Album: Sofia Karlsson "Söder om kärleken"



Matt & Shannon Heaton
folkradio.org
www.jpfolks.com
www.independentmusicawards.com

Eliza Gilkyson

Folk Radio Top Artists: 1. Pete Seeger, 2. Bob Dylan, ..., Nanci Griffith Arlo Guthrie , Tom Russell, Peter, Paul & Mary, Tom Paxton, Catie Curtis, David Wilcox, Steve Earle, Eliza Gilkyson, Tim O'Brien, James Keelaghan, Pierce Pettis, Woody Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, Eric Brace & Peter Cooper, Liz Carroll & John Doyle, Bruce Cockburn, Alison Brown, Joe Crookston, Battlefield Band, Dailey & Vincent, Loudon Wainwright III, Christine Lavin, Matt & Shannon Heaton, Johnny Cash, Martin Simpson, Dana and Susan Robinson, Amy Speace, Mike Seeger, Bill Evans & Megan Lynch, The Duhks, The Gibson Brothers, Darrell Scott, Kate Campbell, Tim Grimm, Levon Helm, Rhonda Vincent, Tommy Sands, Rosanne Cash, Le Vent Du Nord, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Solas, Anne Hills, Nathan Rogers, Caroline Herring, David Grisman, Loreena McKennitt, Chris Stuart, Kat Eggleston, Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, Luka Bloom, Joni Mitchell, Tony McManus, Bearfoot, Vienna Teng, Hot Club of Cowtown, David Francey, , Willie Nelson, Terri Hendrix, Odetta, Phil Ochs, Richard Thompson, Brooks Williams, Cara Dillon, Notorious, Krista Detor, Catherine MacLellan, Janet Bates, Janis Ian, Tony Trischka, Chieftains, Dave Rawlings Machine, Kate Rusby, Naomi Sommers, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Liz Meyer, James Taylor, Tracy Grammer, Beoga, Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Kennedys, Old Crow Medicine Show, Townes Van Zandt, Eric Bogle, Peggy Seeger, David Bromberg, Jim Malcolm, Maria Dunn, Gordon Lightfoot, Beausoleil, Dave Van Ronk, ...

Folk Radio Top Albums: V/A "Singing Through the Hard Times", Nanci Griffith "The Loving Kind", Eric Brace & Peter Cooper "You don’t have to like them both", Pierce Pettis "That Kind of Love", Liz Carroll & John Doyle "Double Play", David Wilcox "Open Hand", Catie Curtis "Hello Stranger", Alison Brown "The Company You Keep", Joe Crookston "Able Baker Charlie and Dog", Bill Evans & Megan Lynch "Let’s Do Something", James Keelaghan "House Of Cards", Amy Speace "The Killer in me", Matt & Shannon Heaton "Lovers' Well", Dana and Susan Robinson "Big Mystery", Battlefield Band "Zama Zama", Tommy Sands "Let the Circle Be Wide", Chris Stuart & Backcountry "Crooked man", Bearfoot "Doors and Windows", Dave Rawlings Machine "A Friend of a Friend", Martin Simpson "True Stories", Nathan Rogers "The Gauntlet", Rosanne Cash "The List", Vienna Teng "Inland Territory", Dailey & Vincent "Brothers from Different Mothers", Kat Eggleston "Speak", Naomi Sommers "Gentle as the Sun", Tony McManus "The Maker's Mark", Notorious "Elkins", Liz Meyer "The Storm", Cara Dillon "Hill of Thieves", Luka Bloom "Eleven Songs", Tim Grimm "Holding Up the World", Beoga "The Incident", Eliza Gilkyson "Beautiful World", Janet Bates, Pete Seeger "Live in '65", The Gibson Brothers "Ring the bell", Tom Paxton "Comedians & Angels", Maria Dunn "The Peddler", Christine Lavin "Cold Pizza for Breakfast", Beyond The Pale "Postcards", Pete Seeger "Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger", Rick Shea "Shelter Valley Blues", V/A "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", Kieran Kane "Somewhere Beyond The Roses", Kate MacLeod "Blooming", Cloudstreet "Clouds on the Road", Rhonda Vincent "Destination Life", Carla Ulbrich "Live from Outer Space", Annabelle Chvostek "Resilience", Solas "For Love and Laughter", Le Vent Du Nord "Mesdames et messieurs!", Beausoleil "Alligator Purse", Anne Hills "Points of View", Robby Hecht "Late Last Night", Elixir "Super tonic", Missy Raines & The New Hip "Inside Out", Tracy Grammer "Flower of Avalon", Tony Trischka "Territory", Kate Campbell "Save the day", Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver "Lonely Street", Sons Of The Never Wrong "On A Good Day...I Am", Archie Fisher "Windward Away", Bettysoo "Heat Sin Water Skin", Pride Of New York "Pride of New York", Pieta Brown "Shimmer", V/A "Sowing the Seeds", Catie Curtis "Sweet Life", Wyatt Easterling "Where this river goes", Girlyman "Everthing’s Easy", Lissa Schneckenburger "Song", ...

Just Plain Folks Music Awards: Tim Grimm "Holding Up the World", John Reischman & the Jaybirds "Stellar Jays", Lisa Haley "King Cake", Danny O’Flaherty "Secret Garden", Maire Ni Chathasaigh & Chris Newman "FireWire", Comas "Comas", Asylum Street Spankers "Mommy Says No!", Janis Ian "Folk Is the New Black", Notorious "Elkins", ...

Independent Music Awards: Pete Seeger "American Favorite Ballads: Vol. 1-5"



Downtown Ramblers
www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com
www.blues.org
www.livingblues.com
www.mapleblues.ca
www.bluesfest-eutin.de
www.blues.org/ibc
www.ibma.org
www.spbgma.com
www.ewob.eu
Native American Music Awards:

Best Compilation Recording: Joanne Shenandoah & Michael Bucher "Bitter Tears Sacred Ground"
Best Folk Recording: Atsiaktonkie "Four Wolves Prophecy"
Best Pop Recording: Apryl Allen "Shape Shifter"

Blues Music Awards: Janiva Magness Otis Taylor Jeff Healey, B.B. King, ...

Living Blues Awards: Pinetop Perkins B.B. King Honeyboy Edwards, ...

Maple Blues Award: Harry Manx, Jeff Healey "Songs From The Road", Taj Mahal, ...

Baltic Blues Challenge : Georg Schroeter und Marc Breitfelder,...

IBMA Bluegrass Awards : Dailey & Vincent, Rhonda Vincent, ...

SPBGMA Bluegrass Music Award Winners: Rhonda Vincent, Dailey & Vincent, ...

European Bluegrass Band Awards: Downtown Ramblers, ...



Canadian Folk Music Awards:
Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club
www.canadianfolkmusicawards.ca
www.folkalliance.org.au

Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year: Tony McManus "The Maker's Mark"
French Songwriter of the Year: Catherine Durand "Coeurs Migratoires"
Solo Artist of the Year: Catherine MacLellan "Water in the Ground"
World Group of the Year: Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko "Africa to Appalachia"

Australian Folk Music Awards:

Folk CD of the Year:
Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club & Friends "Gates of Gold"
Mark Cryle "House of Cards"




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