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Press Releases Watch the Radio 3 Awards For World Music Poll Winners' Concert 2007 live on bbc.co.uk/radio3

Category: Radio 3
Date: 09.05.2007
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The sixth annual 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 Awards For World Music Poll Winners' Concert 2007 will be held at the Barbican on Sunday 27 May – the culmination of a weekend of events featuring the cream of world music artists and broadcasters.

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This year, for the first time, the concert will be available to watch as a live webcast on bbc.co.uk/radio3 – as well as broadcast live on Radio 3.

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Shortly after the event, seven on-demand broadband films will be available on bbc.co.uk/radio3. These will include individual films of all the live performances from the artists playing on the night, exclusive backstage footage, interviews with the winners, vox-pops and highlights from the weekend events at the Barbican.

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The concert will also be available to listen again in the week after the event at bbc.co.uk/radio3.

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Radio 3 will be hosting a raft of free events at the Barbican Centre over the Bank Holiday weekend (26-27 May), including a live broadcast of Radio 3's World Routes, featuring performances from World Music Award winners Maurice el Médioni and Ghada Shbeir on Saturday 26 May, and a live performance by the winner of the Newcomer Award, K'Naan, on Sunday 27 May.

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The Freestage will also host world music labs with 91Èȱ¬ presenters Charlie Gillett and Gilles Peterson discussing world music and radio production.

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The Radio 3 Awards For World Music Poll Winners' Concert 2007, hosted by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Verity Sharp, takes place on Sunday 27 May at 6pm, with live performances from Mahmoud Ahmed (African), Debashish Bhattacharya (Asia/Pacific), Gotan Project (Club Global), K'naan (Newcomer), Maurice el Médion (Culture Crossing) and Ghada Shbeir (Middle East/North Africa).

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The winner of the Audience Award will be announced on the evening. Yusuf Mahmoud and Hildegard Kiel will receive the World Shaker Award for their work putting together the Sauti da Busara festival in Zanzibar and running the Dhow Countries Music Academy.

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Radio 3 Awards For World Music broadcast details:

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• World Routes, Saturday 26 May, 3-4pm: Lucy Duran presents World Routes live from the Barbican with performances from winners Maurice el Médioni and Ghada Shbeir.
  
  
• Radio 3 Awards For World Music Poll Winners Concert, Sunday 27 May, 6-10.30pm: Broadcast live from the Barbican.
  
  
• Watch the concert live, or watch and listen again at bbc.co.uk/radio3.

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For further details on the Awards, the weekend events and 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3's world music output, visit: bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic or myspace.com/bbcawardsforworldmusic.

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Notes to Editors

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Full list of winners of the Radio 3 Awards For World Music 2007:

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• Africa – Mahmoud Ahmed
• Asia/Pacific – Debashish Bhattacharya
• Americas – Gogol Bordello
• Europe – Camille
• Middle East/North Africa – Ghada Shbeir
• Newcomer – K'naan
• Culture Crossing – Maurice el Médioni & Roberto Rodriguez
• Club Global – Gotan Project
• Album Of The Year – Ali Farka Touré - Savane

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The Radio 3 Awards For World Music are organised in partnership with WOMEX, fRoots, Songlines, the Rough Guides and event producers Serious. The awards compilation CD is produced by Union Square Music.

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The nominations for the awards are chosen by the delegates to WOMEX, the World Music Expo. The 2,000 or so delegates at this annual event each have a vote in all of the awards categories, except for the Album Of The Year and the Audience Award.

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In addition, music specialists at the 91Èȱ¬ World Service choose one nomination in four of the five geographical categories. All of the nominations are then reviewed by the Radio 3 Awards For World Music jury (details of which can be found at bbc.co.uk/radio3) who choose the winning acts.

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There are two categories in which the jury has no say. The Album Of The Year is voted on by a panel of critics assembled by fRoots magazine. The Audience Award is chosen by the general public, who vote for their own choices from the overall nominations list. It is the one award which is only revealed on the day of the Awards Poll Winners Concert.

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