FolkWorld #56 03/2015
Radio Skala

Folk, World & Roots Music
- Best of 2014 -



The Editors' Best Loved Albums

The Askew Sisters "In the Air or the Earth"
This is English trad as good as it will ever get...
England
  
Aquabella "Ayadooeh" Germany
Bube Dame König "Traumländlein" Germany
Habadekuk "Kaffepunch" Denmark
Francesca Incudine "Iettavuci" Italy
Megson "In a box" England
Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar "The Call" England
Salsa Celtica "The Tall Islands" Scotland
West of Eden "Songs from Twisting River" Sweden
The Young Folk "The little battle" Ireland

Adolf Goriup's Best Loved Albums

Kelly’s Lot "Don’t’ give my Blues away" USA
Liz Mandeville "Heart o’ Chicago" USA
The Nighthawks "444" USA
The Once "Departures" Canada
Sol Ruiz "Diva" Italy
Runrig "Party on the Moor" Scotland
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen "Cold Spell" USA
Martin Spengler & die foischn Wiener "vü föd ned" Austria
Sterzinger Experience "ashanti blue" Austria
West of Eden "Songs from Twisting River" Sweden

Alex Monaghan's Best Loved Albums

CrossHarbour "CrossHarbour" England
Duo Artense "Sur le Vif" France
The Fretless "The Fretless" Canada
Goitse "Tall Tales & Misadventures" Ireland
Habadekuk "Kaffepunch" Denmark
Moxie "Planted" Ireland
Red Hot Chilli Pipers "Live" Scotland
The Trí-Tones "The Trí-Tones" Ireland
Trolska Polska "Moss" Denmark / Sweden
The Yanks "Haymaker" USA

Karsten Rube's Best Loved Albums

Mayra Andrade "Lovely Difficult" Cape Verde
Club des Belugas "Fishing for Zebras" Germany
Vanessa da Mata "Canta Tom Jobim" Brazil
Eva Jagun "Camburi" Germany
Les Maries "Wie weit ist weit weg" Germany
Felix Meyer "Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts" Germany
No Blues "Kind of No Blues" Netherlands
Los Santos "Surfing on the Rio Grande" Germany
Sting "The Last Ship" England
Nikki Yanofsky "Little Secret" Canada

Walkin' Tom's Best Loved Albums

Mara Aranda & Solatge "Lo Testament" Spain
Bube Dame König "Traumländlein" Germany
Liguriani "Stundai" Italy
Livonia "Runenspiel" Estonia / Austria
Marga Muzika "Marga Muzika" Lithuania
Phønix "nu" Denmark
Sarakina "Live in Studio" Poland
Snaarmaarwaar "B.L.O.C.K." Belgium
Eithne Ní Uallacháin "Bilingua" Ireland
We Banjo 3 "Gather the Good" Ireland

Best Loved Re-Releases

Martin Connolly & Maureen Glynn "The Fort of Kincora" Ireland
Tummel "Klezmerised" Sweden / Denmark
Eithne Ní Uallacháin "Bilingua" Ireland

Best Loved DVDs

Das Blaue Einhorn "Das letzte Konzert" Germany
Andy Irvine "70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012" Ireland
"Inside Llewyn Davis / Another Day, Another Time" USA

Best Loved Videos

Hattie Briggs "Old Eyes" England
Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls "Rags and Bones" USA
Fanfare Ciocarlia & Adrian Raso "Urn St. Tavern" Romania / Canada
Folk On Crest "Lonxe" Spain
Hafennacht "Fischmarkt" Germany
Kíla "Suas Síos" Ireland
Mélisande [électrotrad] "Le vin est bon" Canada
Moxie "Planted" Ireland
Gretchen Peters "Blackbirds" USA
Gabby Young "I've Improved" England
Askew Sisters
Goitse
Los Santos
Martin Spengler
Liguriani
Phonix
Sarakina
Snaarmaarwaar
Adrian Raso


Radio Skala CD Recommendation

Veras Kabinett "Ungetüm" Germany
Les Maries "Wie weit ist weit weg" Germany
Eva Jagun "Camburi" Germany
Yasmin Levy "Tango" Israel
Hafennacht "Tresenkönigin" Germany
Los Santos "Surfing on the Rio Grande" Germany
Golec uOrkiestra "Koled I Pastoralek" Poland
Sting "The Last Ship" England
Fairytale "Forest of Summer" Germany
Afentoula Razeli & Banda "Abroad" Greece
Most Played Artists: Daniel Puente Encina, Capercaillie, Be Ignacio, Alma, Helsinki-Cotonou-Ensemble, Mayito Rivera, Sam Lee, Dota, Mr. Zarko, Joseph Parsons, Fee Badenius, Dobet Gnahoré, Hanna Meyerholz, Maria Berasarte, ... Misc
www.radio-skala.eu
Radio Skala
Veras Kabinett


fRoots Album of the Year

Album Of The Year: Martin & Eliza Carthy "The Moral Of The Elephant" England
..., The Gloaming "The Gloaming", Söndörgő "Tamburocket: Hungarian Fireworks", Richard Thompson "Acoustic Classics", Sam Amidon "Lily-O" 9Bach "Tincian", The Old Swan Band "FORTYssimo", Julie Fowlis, The Young ’Uns "Never Forget", Còig "Five", Martin Green "Crows’bones", Kepa Junkera "Galiza", Lynched "Cold Old Fire", Oysterband "Diamond on the Water", Polkaworks "Borrowed Shoes", Emily Smith "Echoes", ... Misc
Reissues & Compilations: ..., "Dear Jane - Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie", "Riverboat Records: Music From The Source", ... Misc
Best Packaged Album: ..., Kepa Junkera "Galiza", Lynched "Cold Old Fire", ... Misc

Womex Awards

Womex Artist Award: Mariza Portugal
Womex Professional Excellence Award: Mário Lúcio Sousa Cabo Verde
Womex Label Award: Glitterbeat Records (with chart-topping CDs: Tamikrest "Chatma", ...)

Remaining Top 20 Independent Labels and their Chart-Topping Albums: World Village/Harmonia Mundi/Jazz Village (Melingo "Linyera"); Cumbancha/Stonetree (Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate "Faya"); Contre-Jour (Habib Koité "Soô", Driss El Maloumi "Makan", Dobet Gnahoré "Na Drê"); Asphalt Tango Records (Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia "Devil’s Tale", Cigdem Aslan "Mortissa" , Jaro Milko & The Cubalkanics "Cigarros Explosivos"); Crammed Discs (Yasmine Hamdan "Ya Nass"); World Circuit (Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté "Toumani & Sidiki"); Folmusica (Kepa Junkera "Galiza", Orquestra Folk Sondeseu "Danzas Brancas", Ses "Co Xenio Destrozado"); ARC Music (Clannad "Nádúr", Septentrio "Nordic Folk Music"); Jaro Medien (Oliver Rajamani "Texas Gypsy Fire", Ashia & The Bison Rouge "Diesel vs Lungs"); Snail Records/World Connection (Mostar Sevdah Reunion "Tales from a Forgotten City"); ...
Misc

World Music Charts Europe: Söndergö, Melingo, Kepa Junkera, Habib Koité, Mayra Andrade, Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia, Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Aynur Dogan, ... Misc
Songlines Music Awards: Tamikrest, ... Misc
Songlines Best Albums: Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté "Toumani & Sidiki", The Gloaming "The Gloaming", Driss El Maloumi "Makan", Söndörgő "Tamburocket: Hungarian Fireworks", ... Misc
Favoritos Mundofonías - Original Albums: She'koyokh "Wild Goats & Unmarried Women", Söndörgő "Tamburocket: Hungarian Fireworks", Kyriakos Kalaitzidis et al. "The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo", ... Misc
Favoritos Mundofonías - Compilations: "Arctic Paradise 2014", "Azerbaijani Love Songs", "Riverboat Records: Music From The Source", ... Misc
Martin & Eliza Carthy
Old Swan Band
Lynched
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis
Riverboat Records
www.frootsmag.com | www.womex.com | www.wmce.de
www.songlines.co.uk | www.mundofonias.com |


The German Record Critics' Awards

Molden, Resetarits, Soyka & Wirth "Ho Rugg" Austria
Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia "Devil’s Tale" Canada / Romania
Kalüün "Spöören" Germany
"Looking Into You - A Tribute to Jackson Browne" USA
Ganes "Caprize" Italy
Stoppok "Popschutz" Germany
Gjermund Larsen Trio "Reise" Norway
Amparo Sanchez "Espiritu del Sol" Spain

Jahrespreise: Sound of Heimat. Deutschland singt!, ...
Germany
www.schallplattenkritik.de

Folker - Die Besondere

Evelyn Kryger "Evelyn Kryger" Germany
The Full English "The Full English" England
Kalüün "Spöören" Germany
Catch-Pop String-Strong "2" Austria
Bube Dame König "Traumländlein" Germany
www.folker.de

"Ein Achtel Lorbeerblatt" CD des Monats

Felix Meyer "Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts" Germany
goubran "Die Glut" Germany
Strom und Wasser "Anticool" Germany
Tetzlaffs Tiraden "Krisenlieder" Germany
Schnaps im Silbersee "Jede Welt ist die echte" Germany
Georg Clementi "Zeitlieder 2" Germany
einachtellorbeerblatt.wordpress.com

Liederbestenliste - CDs des Monats

Liederbestenliste Platz 1: Strom & Wasser feat. The Refugees "Freiheit ist ein Paradies", Stoppok "Auf Sendung", Molden, Resetarits, Soyka & Wirth "Ho Rugg", Wenzel "Viva la Poesia", ... Germany
Empfehlung CD des Monats: ..., Dominik Plangger "Hoffnungsstur", Günter Gall mit Konstantin Vassiliev "Soldaten-Leben" , Molden, Resetarits, Soyka & Wirth "Ho Rugg", Chris Kramer "Unterwegs Zur Sonne", Stoppok "Auf Sendung", ... Germany / Austria
Liederpreis: Strom & Wasser feat. The Refugees, Germany
www.liederbestenliste.de

German World Music Awards (RUTH)

Hauptpreis: Alpenklezmer Germany
Förderpreis: Liloba Germany
Ehrenpreis: Barbara Boock Germany
Sonderpreis des TFF Rudolstadt: Rainald Grebe Germany
www.weltmusikpreis.de

Eiserner Eversteiner: Jamie Smith‘s Mabon, Dàimh Britain
Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis: Stoppok, ... Germany
Freiburger Leiter: Federspiel Germany
VUT Indie Awards (VIA): Annuluk, ... Germany
MUNDart G'song: LeRoXa Germany
Könige der Straßenmusik (Klesmerfestival Salzgitter): Cobario Austria
Beste Deutsche Fernseh-Filmmusik: Martina Eisenreich Germany
Großes Verdienstkreuz am Bande: Rüdiger Oppermann Germany
Prix Pantheon : Simon & Jan, ... Germany
Ravensburger Kupferle: Rura Scotland
Kulturpreis des Main-Kinzig-Kreises: Vano Bamberger Germany
Deutscher Rock & Pop Preis: Cùl na Mara, Hanna Meyerholz, Nobody Knows, ... Germany
German Blues Music Awards: Chris Kramer, ... Germany
Amadeus Austrian Music Awards: Norbert Schneider, ... Austria
Austrian World Music Awards: Black Market Tune, ... Austria / Scotland
Kalüün
Evelyn Kryger
Strom & Wasser
Günter Gall
Bube Dame König
Martina Eisenreich
Max Heckel
www.malzhaus.de | www.musiker-online.de
www.vut.de | www.prixpantheon.wdr.de | www.kulturpreis.net
www.amadeusawards.at | www.austrianworldmusicawards.eu


BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

Folk Singer of the Year: Nancy Kerr England
Best Group: The Young ’Uns England
Best Duo: Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker England
Best Album: 9Bach "Tincian" Wales
Musician of the Year: Sam Sweeney England
Best Traditional Track: "Samhradh Samhradh" (The Gloaming) Ireland
Best Original Song: "Swim To The Star" (Peggy Seeger/Calum MacColl) USA/Scotland
Horizon Award: The Rails England
Young Folk Award: Talisk Scotland
Lifetime Achievement: Loudon Wainwright III, ... USA
Hall of Fame: Ewan MacColl Scotland
www.bbc.co.uk

Spiral Awards

Best Album: Moulettes "Constellations" England
Trad Folk Album: The Askew Sisters "In the Air or the Earth" England
UK Americana Band: Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra England
Singer: Blair Dunlop Scotland
Duo: Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman England
Group: Bellowhead England
Musician of the Year: Will Pound England
Live Act: The Young ’Uns England
www.spiralearth.co.uk

Fatea Awards

Album of the Year: Ange Hardy "The Lament of the Black Sheep" England
Debut Album of the Year: Ninebarrow "While The Blackthorn Burns" England
Band/Duo Of The Year: Young ’Uns England
Instrumentalist Of The Year: Martin Green England
Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Thompson, England
www.fatea-records.co.uk

Scots Trad Music Awards

Album of the Year: Duncan Chisholm "Live at Celtic Connections" Scotland
Instrumentalist of the Year: Catriona McKay Scotland
Live Act of the Year: Skipinnish Scotland
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year: Emily Smith Scotland
Scottish Folk Band of the Year: Julie Fowlis Scotland
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Inductees: The Whistlebinkies, Margaret Bennett, Hamish Moore, Danny Kyle, Davy Steele, Ishbel MacAskill, ... Scotland
www.handsupfortrad.co.uk
Ewan MacColl
Rob Heron
Richard Thompson
Ange Hardy
Duncan Chisholm


liveIreland Music Awards

Female Musician of the Year: Louise MulcahyIreland
Male Musician of the Year: Leonard Barry Ireland
Male Vocalist of the Year: Seán TyrrellIreland
Vocals/Instrumental Album of the Year: We Banjo 3 "Gather the Good" Ireland
Trad Group of the Year: Goitse Ireland
my.liveireland.com

Irish Music Awards

Top Solo Performer in a Pub Venue: Robbie O'Connell Ireland
Best New Irish CD: Cara Dillon "A Thousand Hearts" Ireland
Top Celtic Rock Band: Young DublinersUSA
Best Female Vocalist (individual/trad.): Cara Dillon Ireland
Top Traditional Group in a Pub, Festival, Concert: FullSet Ireland
Top Uilleann Piper: Paddy KeenanIreland
Top Button Accordion: Shane Hayes Ireland
www.irishmusicawards.com

TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards

Gradam Ceoil: Mairtin O'Connor Ireland
Gradam Saoil (Hall of Fame): Bobby Gardiner Ireland
www.gradam.ie

Fiddler's Green Awards

The Fiddler's Green Hall of Fame Award: Cherish the Ladies USA
www.fiddlersgreenfestival.co.uk
Sean Tyrrell
Cara Dillon
Leonard Barry


Danish Music Awards

Album of the Year: Habadekuk "Kaffepunch" Denmark
Composer of the Year: Martin Seeberg (Trolska Polska) Denmark
Traditional Music Award: Habadekuk Denmark
Special Award: Carsten Panduro (Tønder Festival) Denmark
Best Composer - World: Kim Rafael Nyberg (Afenginn) Denmark
www.folkemusik.dk | www.worldmusic.dk

Independent Music Awards: Pierre Bensusan, ... France
Doroczna Nagroda Ministra Kultury: Janusz Prusinowski Poland
Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards: Wardruna, ... Norway
Spellemannprisen: Moddi, Frida Ånnevik, ... Norway
www.independentmusicawards.com | www.spellemann.no
Habadekuk
Trolska Polska


Folk Radio Top Albums

..., Tim Grimm "The Turning Point", "Dear Jane - Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie", Various Artists "Inside Llewyn Davis" Cahalen Morrison And Eli West "I'll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands" , Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick "Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs Of Vern And Ray" Red June "Ancient Dreams", Runa "Current Affairs" , Various Artists "Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne", John McCutcheon "22 Days", The Henry Girls "Louder than words", The Early Mays "The Early Mays", Nickel Creek "A Dotted Line", Jim Photoglo "Halls of my Heart", Molasses Creek "Something worth having", Old Crow Medicine Show "Remedy", Ernest Troost "O love", Kylie Carey "North Star", Kathy Kallick "Cut to the Chase", Hanneke Cassel "Dot The Dragon's Eyes", Nell Robinson "The Rose of No-Man’s Land", Poor Angus "Gathering", Lucy Billings "Carry the Water", True North "Elsebound", Lowell Levinger "Down to the roots", Missy Werner "Turn This Heart Around", Locust Honey String Band "Never Let Me Cross Your Mind", Nathan Bell "Blood Like a River", The Howlin' Brothers "Trouble", Haas Kowert Tice "You Got This", Paddy Mills "Race to the Bottom", Sarah Jarosz "Build Me Up From Bones", Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas "Abundance", Front Country "Sake of the Sound", Adler & Hearne "Second Nature", Pete Seeger and Friends "Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger", Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line "Carnival", Rod Picott "Hang Your Hopes on a Crooked Nail", The Stray Birds "The Stray Birds", The Railsplitters "The Railsplitters", David Francey "So Say We All" , The Henry Girls "December Moon", Ben & Ellen Harper "Childhood Home", Mara Levine "Jewels and Harmony", Ronstadt Generations y Los Tucsonensis "Epilogue", James Hill "The Old Silo", John Cowan "Sixty", John Fullbright "Songs", Pharis and Jason Romero "Long Gone Out West Blues", Annie Lou "Tried And True", Cassie And Maggie "Sterling Road" Harpeth Rising "Tales from Jackson Bridge", Ken & Brad Kolodner "Skipping Rocks" , Hardin Burns "Down the deep well", The Milk Carton Kids "The Ash & Clay", Naomi Wachira "Naomi Wachira", Matt & Shannon Heaton "Tell You In Earnest", Various Artists "If I Had A Song: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2", Slaid Cleaves "Still Fighting The War", Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen "Cold Spell", Billy Strings and Don Julin "Fiddle Tune X", Lou Dominguez "We the People", Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer "Child Ballads" , Susan Cattaneo "Haunted Heart", April Verch "Bright Like Gold", James Keelaghan "History", Amy Speace "How To Sleep On A Stormy Boat", Katey Laurel "Periscope", Jon Brooks "The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside", Lucinda Williams "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone", Robert Sarazin Blake "Robt Sarazin Blake", Lake Street Dive "Bad Self-portrait", Liz Carroll "On the Offbeat", Bradford Lee Folk and the Bluegrass Playboys "Somewhere Far Away", Pete Seeger "Live in '65", Christine Albert "Everything’s beautiful now", ... Misc
www.folkradio.org

Grammy: Old Crow Medicine Show, ... USA
Mid-Atlantic Song Contest: Brad Colerick, Seth Kibel, ... USA
Boston Music Awards: Lake Street Dive, ... USA
Laurence Olivier Award: Glen Hansard / Once: The Musical Ireland
Le Cajun Music Awards: Cajun Roosters, ... Germany
IBMA Bluegrass Awards : Noam Pikelny, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Claire Lynch, ... USA
Parents' Choice Award: Okeedokee Brothers "Through the Woods", ... USA
European Bluegrass Band Awards: Bluegrass Boogiemen, ... Netherlands
EBMA Bluegrass Personality: Rainer Zellner Netherlands
USA Fellows: Alison Brown, ... USA
Inside Llewyn Davis
Frank Solivan
Red June
Lucinda Williams
Jon Brooks
www.grammy.com | www.bostonmusicawards.com | www.ewob.eu
www.ebma.org | www.parents-choice.org | www.ibma.org | www.usafellows.org


Canadian Folk Music Awards

Traditional Album of the Year: Còig "Five" Canada
Traditional Singer of the Year: Mélisande [électrotrad] "Les métamorphoses" Canada
Ensemble of the Year: The Fretless "The Fretless" Canada
Producer of the Year: Tom Terrell and Karl Falkenham (The Modern Grass) Canada
www.folkawards.ca

Juno Awards: Leonard Cohen, Catherine MacLellan, Steve Hill, ... Canada
Western Canadian Music Awards: The Fretless, ... Canada
East Coast Music Awards: The Once, Còig, Ten Strings & A Goat Skin, ... Canada
Music Nova Scotia Awards: Maxim Cormier, The Modern Grass, Còig, ... Canada
www.ecma.com | www.breakoutwest.ca
www.musicnovascotia.ca | www.junoawards.ca
The Once
Ten Strings And A Goat Skin


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