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World magazine links up with Womad for live event

WORLD MUSIC MAGAZINE SONGLINES is to host an awards event to mark its 10th anniversary.

The Songlines Music Awards will be held in partnership with world music festival Womad and will have four categories: best artist; best group; best new artist and best cross-cultural collaboration.

The initial longlist of artists eligible for the awards will comprise the 800-odd acts that have had albums reviewed in the magazine this year.

This will be whittled down to four shortlisted artists in each category by Songlines readers, the Womad electronic mailing list and the general public, with the winners to be announced in a special issue in May. The awards event will follow at this year's Womad festival on July 24-26. More details of the event will be released in the December 12 edition of the magazine.

Songlines publisher Paul Geoghegan says the aim is to make the awards into an annual event. "We always wanted to hold a Songlines award ceremony but we didn't want to launch a competitor to the BBC Radio Three World Music Awards," he says. "But we are now at a stage where the BBC is no longer going to do their awards."

Geoghegan explains that the awards are certain to ...

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