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Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2007

on BBC Radio 3

Live from the Barbican in London,
Andrew McGregor introduces this year's Poll Winners' Concert, hosted by Verity Sharp and Kwame Kwei-Armah .
6.05 Asia-Pacific. Music by Debashish Bhattacharya (India), a master of the Indian slide guitar.
6.40 Club Global. The sound of Gotan Project
(Argentina/France), world leaders in electrotango.
7.20 Lucy Duran rounds up events backstage. DJ Pathaan reports on the newest trends in Indian classical music. BBC World Service presenter
Juan Carlos Jaramillo presents a mini-history of the tango, and Samir Farah of the BBC Arabic Service discusses Lebanon's musical heritage.
7.40 Middle East-North Africa. Ghada Shbeir
(Lebanon) brings the 1,000-year-old Arabo-Andalusian repertory into the 21st century.
8.30 Newcomer. K'naan (Somalia), now settled in Canada, performs hip-hop that draws on his childhood experiences in the war-torn country of his birth.
9.00 DJ Rita Ray introduces a guide to African rap. French reporter Daniel Brown profiles Algerian musicians in exile, and DJ Eric Soul surveys the music of Ethiopia.
9.25 Culture Crossing. Music by Maurice el Medioni (Algeria-France), a veteran pianist specialising in the Oriental style that emerged in colonial Algeria.
10.00 Africa. Songs from Mahmoud Ahmed
(Ethiopia), long celebrated as Ethiopia's finest singer, but only now becoming known internationally.

Contributors

Introduces:
Andrew McGregor
Unknown:
Verity Sharp
Unknown:
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Music By:
Debashish Bhattacharya
Unknown:
Lucy Duran
Presenter:
Juan Carlos Jaramillo
Presenter:
Samir Farah
Unknown:
Ghada Shbeir
Introduces:
Rita Ray
Reporter:
Daniel Brown
Unknown:
Eric Soul
Music By:
Maurice El Medioni
Unknown:
Mahmoud Ahmed

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