ANNOUNCE: fRoots update: June issue
Ian Anderson
(fR240) The magazine has been posted to subscribers today (May 13th),
bang on time as ever. UK street publication date is May 22nd.
Find us at http://www.frootsmag.com
(Hit the reload button if you have earlier issues cached.)
On the cover, fast rising UK klezmer futurists Oi-Va-Voi (recently
recipients of a Boundary Crossing nomination in the Awards For World
Music, now signed to Outcaste and on the bill of this year's Cambridge).
Then we also have a look at the London Calypso scene of the 1950s
(with a diversion into the theories of royalty payments on re-issues),
and features on Poland's young Warsaw Village Band and more
established Kroke, UK-resident Nigerian hip-hop crew JJC & 419 Squad,
veteran Okinawan musician Shouei Kina (Shoukichi's dad), Irish
traditional singer Paddy Tunney who passed away recently, Scotland's
Alasdair Fraser and his recent collaborations with musicians from Spain,
South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Brazilians Celso Fonseca and
Vinicius Cantuaria, the Northern Lights project teaming folk musician
Alistair Anderson and jazzer Annie Whitehead and lots more including
our usual vast news and reviews coverage.
There's a competition to win copies of the new John Spiers & Jon
Boden CD 'Bellow' and the 'Dark Was The Night' tribute to Blind Willie
Johnson with an interesting line up from Martin Simpson to the
Henrys with Mary Margaet O'Hara via the 3 Mississippistaphas 3,
The Positively Testcard, Julie Murphy and Bob Copper.
A selection of reviews, the competition, the latest charts, the
editorial, and full contents list are now up on the web site.
* * fRoots Radio is the monthly aural companion to each issue. The
June edition should go on line on Wednesday May 14th and recent
programmes are archived.
* * We now have added a Late Breaking News page for things we
were told about too late for inclusion in the print edition.
* * We now have secure online ordering for subscriptions,
back issues, binders, CDs and everything else we offer.
Other site resources also include the 2003 festivals diary, an index
of all features that have appeared in our pages since issue 1 in
1979, a track index of all our series of free fRoots covermount CDs,
a selection of past features, a huge number of links to other web
sites, all the stuff you need to know about subscribing, advertising,
contributing, a list of UK retail outlets, other FAQs, and the
proverbial “lots more”.
Local music from out there: from Anglo-trad to Zanzibar pop
via the great mixing desk in the sky.
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Ian Anderson
http://www.frootsmag.com