WOMEX 10 AWARD FOR PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE TO IAN ANDERSON/fRoots
SHOWCASE ANNOUNCEMENTS PART II
CONFERENCE : FROM THE INDIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY TO BULLSHITTING ON (C)
SONGLINES REPORT : MUSIC FUND SUPPORTS KINSHASA´S GUITAR MAKERS
Dear WOMEXicans,
Here is our second WOMEX 10 Award announcement plus more Showcases and Conference Sessions for you... Come join the most important gathering of international world music professionals at WOMEX 10 in Copenhagen, Denmark, from Wednesday to Sunday, 27-31 October 2010.
WOMEX 10 AWARD FOR PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE TO IAN ANDERSON/fRoots
WOMEX is proud to announce the winner of the WOMEX 10 Award for Professional Excellence: Ian Anderson (UK), founder and editor-in- chief of the magazine fRoots, on behalf of the independent press.
He will receive his Award on Sunday morning, 31 October 2010, at the Awards Ceremony accompanied by a WOMEX Networking Breakfast, both open to WOMEX delegates only. The laudation will be offered by the leading journalist Robin Denselow (UK), known for his work with the BBC and The Guardian among others.
Since 1999 we have given the WOMEX Award to extraordinary artists and professionals from our community deserving of special praise but we have never ever awarded the media. And yet the independent media play such a crucial role for our kind of music business, part of us, supporting us and providing a vital forum for topics that otherwise would fall through the grid or answer only to big-media-corp interests. With the Internet bringing change to all traditional business models, offering the media world its own urgent challenges - note, for example, our parallel debate concerning music, free downloads and beyond - now, more than ever is the time to show our support for an independent media.
We will let Robin Denselow take over from here to shed light on Ian Anderson's voyage:
"1979 may have been a great year for British rock and pop music, but this was a terrible year for folk music or roots music. It was a year of great post-punk bands like XTC, the Specials, Dire Straits, and of course disco. As I noted in one of my reviews that year, ‘Folk rock, once one of the healthiest strands in British popular music, is in a pretty miserable state these days’."
"But this was the year when a young folk music musician with gloriously eclectic taste and an international outlook, decided to start a fanzine, published quarterly, called The Southern Rag. In doing so helped to kick-start the new folk revival that was to come, and the success of what came to be known as ‘world music’."
"The Southern Rag did well. It attracted international subscribers, and in 1984 it became a monthly called Folk Roots. It has always been charmingly quirky, in terms of lay-out and design, and in 1999 the editor made the decidedly quirky decision to change the name to fRoots. And heaven help anyone who pronounced it the way it was spelled and called it ‘froots’."
"The man responsible for all this was, of course Ian Anderson. Also known as Ian A Anderson, to avoid confusion with a certain flute-player, he had already enjoyed a lengthy and colourful career as a musician, independent record-label pioneer and producer, specialising first in country blues before switching to what is now called Psych-folk."
"His musical career has continued, of course, most recently with Blue Blokes 3. But it’s as the editor of fRoots that he has revived the fortunes of roots music, in Britain and beyond. Along with Charlie Gillett and Joe Boyd, he was one of the small group who dreamed up the term ‘World Music’ in 1987. And as all those who read fRoots will know, he is an enthusiast, a maverick and a guide, who promotes great new artists long before they have been discovered by the mainstream media. That’s why an independent magazine like fRoots is so vital to the music scene. And that’s why it’s only right that Ian Anderson - exemplar of the independent roots press - should receive this award."
SHOWCASE ANNOUNCEMENTS PART II
As promised in the last mediaupdate here is the second part of our WOMEX 10 Showcase announcement. The latest, the gratest and the up-and-coming will all play the WOMEX 10 Showcase Festival. Three thrilling nights will be fuelled by:
- Baba Zula (Turkey)
- Chicha Libre (USA)
- Damily (Madagascar)
- Danças Ocultas (Portugal)
- DJs Criolina (Brazil)
- Dobet Gnahoré (Ivory Coast/France)
- Fatoumata Diawara (Mali/France)
- Karina Buhr (Brazil)
- Lelo Nika & Friends (Sweden/Denmark)
- Líber Terán (Mexico)
- Nidi D'Arac (Italy)
- OMFO (Ukraine/The Netherlands)
- Sexteto Tabalá de Palenque (Colombia)
- Wang Li (China/France)
- Yemen Blues (Israel/USA)
- Yom, New King of Klezmer Clarinet (France)
- Zohreh Jooya & Ensemble Afghan (Afghanistan/Iran/Switzerland/Austria)
CONFERENCE : FROM THE INDIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY TO BULLSHITTING ON (C)
Keep up with changes, trends and innovations: colleagues and special guests share live, recorded and digital experiences ... and also their "vision beyond" at the WOMEX Conference. Here is the second part of our programme announcement : most of these sessions are filed under recorded experience and vision beyond - although many of them really do touch on more than one experience.
New at this year's Conference is the "Discovery Channel", a platform for 10-minute presentations of recent projects from our worldwide community. You will find the session under Vision Beyond.
Here is a selection:
The following panel on the Indian music market is a true experience allrounder catering to all four Conference topics at the same time.
The Perfect Storm - The Indian Music Industry in 2010: The myth of a billion music consumers and the state of the music industry in India
- Ali Sachedina (USA), Kinetic Management, with:
- Girish Raj (India/USA), IDIGO/Kinetic Management
- Dhruv Jagasiya (India), Media Offline/OML
RECORDED EXPERIENCE:
Bullshitting on Copyright in the Next 25 Years: Speculation and discussion about where it is all going?
- Peter Jenner (UK), Sincere Management/President Emeritus of the International Music Managers Forum
From Idea to Distribution: Tips and tricks on the production and distribution of audio-visual formats and effective promotion using Web 2.0
- Chris Hunt (UK/Austria), International Music and Media Centre (IMZ), with:
- Silvia Jura Santangelo (Austria), Globalista: no border media
VISION BEYOND:
Cultural Economy as International Development: Looking for potential and obstacles
- Christiaan de Beukelaer (Belgium), Catholic University Leuven, with:
- Julian Noursi (Jordan), Distant Heat Festival
- Gordana Ristic (Serbia), Generator
Neighbourhood Watch: The view from across the tracks
- Lemez Lovas (UK), Hot Salt Beef Studios, with:
- Nick Hallam (UK), English Folk, Dance and Song Society
- Henrik Rørdam (DK), Dacapo Records
Update 14 July 2010, programme subject to change.
Find here all Conference Sessions which are already confirmed.
SONGLINES REPORT: MUSIC FUND SUPPORTS KINSHASA´S GUITAR MAKERS
Songlines magazine July issue featured an article by Andy Morgan on the Music Fund Project and Socklo and Almaz, two remarkable guitar makers from Kinshasa, DRC. With the most basic tools, these two luthiers create wonderful guitars, with a look and a sound all of their own. They have been responsible for keeping the guitar players of Kinshasa equipped for the last decade. Their contribution to the city's music scene, one of the most dynamic in the whole of Africa, has been incalculable. Socklo makes and supplies all the guitars of the up and coming Staff Benda Bilili.
Music Fund, a Belgian NGO, has been helping Socklo and Almaz to promote their business and sell their guitars. However, Music Fund are now actively looking for a guitar/music instrument distributor in Europe to distribute these desirable guitars, and continue the great work that Music Fund have been doing.
If you have any suggestions or leads, please could you send them to Lukas Pairon of Music Fund.
Read the full Songlines article here.
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