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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).

Introduction movie, see more in our site


Awards for World Music at the PROMS


THE NOMINATED CDs