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FEATURES 22The Songlines Music Awards Nominations Find out who has been nominated in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards. 24Staff Benda Bilili Bursting onto the world from their Kinshasa home, with a remarkable story and a winning sound, this is the band everyone’s talking about.
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Calypso Rose
30 ) Slow Music The northern Italian Slow Food movement has been gaining converts the world over – now they launch Slow Music.
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32Calypso Rose Trinidad & Tobago’s queen of calypso releases her first international album at last.
36 ) Instruments and Wood How the making of musical instruments is putting pressure on endangered woods.
Songlines Music Awards
Summer Schools
Underlying her innocent cry for help are suggestions concerning Ram Singh’s long ‘fire hose’
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38Summer Schools Reports from Labyrinth in Crete and the WOMAD Summer School in Bath.
42Archive Recordings The vital role of musical archives in preserving the cultures of the world.
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24 Staff Benda Bilili
April/May 2009
36 Instruments and Wood
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