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 Music Live 2004 As part of BBC's Music Live, Radio 3 hosted a day of live world music from Laganside in Belfast on May 1st 2004. The festival was held exclusively in Northern Island and was presented by Lucy Duran and Rita Ray.  Warsaw Village Band 'Hard core folk' is how the Warsaw Village Band's leader Wojciech Krzak describes their music. They are six young musicians who came together in 1997, and started going around their local area, learning songs from the old villagers. They say that, after the decades of communism, Poland needs to find a new identity from its cultural roots. They play only acoustic instruments, including thesuka , an ancient Polish fiddle, and their lead singer uses a traditional 'white' voice style which she describes as 'close to screaming'. The band won the Newcomer award in the 2004 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music.  Cara Dillon When Cara Dillon's first album was released in 2001, folk music and world music critics realised at once that a new star had appeared. She was brought up in Dungiven County Derry, and her family were singers: Cara had won an All-Ireland singing trophy by the time she was 14. She sings both traditional songs, and songs she has composed herself with her partner, English keyboard player Sam Lakeman. Her second album Sweet Liberty released last year, also includes the Tommy Sands song "There Were Roses" about the Troubles in Northern Ireland.  Huun Huur Tu Huun Huur Tu literally means 'sun propellor' - the separation of light waves sometimes visible at dawn or dusk. Huun Huur Tu sees this as a picture of their sound-world, splitting vocalisations into a dazzling display of harmonics. Tuva is a land-locked former Soviet republic in Central Asia that seems to have more than its fair share of good musicians. Two of the four-piece band started out as nomadic shepherds, growing up in the traditions of Tuvan 'throat-singing', shaping their melodies using the eerie sounds of overtones. They were nominated for the Asia-Pacific Award in this year's Radio 3 Awards for World Music.  Klezmatics The actor Robin Williams has said of The Klezmatics, "With music like this, if you don't see God, you're f**king blind". They are the world's most acclaimed Yiddish music band, performing Klezmer, a genre of music that emerged in the Jewish communities of eastern Europe. Formed in New York in 1988, The Klezmatics perform a klezmer for our time, or 'rhythm and Jews' as they like to call it. Their line-up includes accordion, keyboards, violin, trumpet, sax, electric bass and drums, and they perform traditional klezmer instrumental pieces, together with songs in Yiddish and songs on contemporary themes.  Afro Cuban All Stars Juan de Marcos Gonzalez was the moving force behind the Buena Vista Social Club recordings in 1997. The album was a legendary international success, and it also revitalised music in Cuba itself. Now, with his Afro Cuban All Stars, Juan de Marcos is showcasing Cuba's younger talent in a repertoire that refreshes traditional styles with modern touches. His nineteen-piece band is coming over from Cuba specially, their first visit to the UK since 2001. |
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