Images of this year's nominated artists
THE NOMINEES
AFRICA
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
Simphiwe Dana
Tinariwen
Toumani Diabate and the Symmetric Orchestra
ASIA/PACIFIC
Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale
Faiz Ali Faiz
Huun Huur Tu
Sa Ding Ding
AMERICAS
Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective
Bajofondo Tango Club
Hazmat Modine
Maria Rita
EUROPE
Manu Chao
Nass El Ghiwane
Rachid Taha
Thierry 'Titi' Robin
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
Malouma
Ojos de Brujo
Son de la Frontera
The Idan Raichel Project
NEWCOMER
Balkan Beat Box
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
Mayra Andrade
Vieux Farka Toure
CULTURE CROSSING
Balkan Beat Box
Bole 2 Harlem
The Idan Raichel Project
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara
CLUB GLOBAL
Balkan Beat Box
Bajofondo Tango Club
Gaudi Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Transglobal Underground
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective
Winner - Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
Orchestra Baobab
Tinariwen
The BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music celebrate their seventh year.
The winning artists were announced on 10th April at a winner's ceremony in London broadcast on 11th April from 7pm as Radio 3's Performance on 3.
The Award Winners' Concert took place on 30th July at the Royal Albert Hall, part of the BBC Proms. See video excerpts of the television broadcast below.
Visit our web site at: Awards for World Music 2008 where you find details per each artist, including audio samples from their CDs.
Watch the nominee films from the Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008 together with an introduction and highlights (if you are outside the UK use the versions at the bottom of the page).