Our Picks from the nominees for BBC Folk Awards 2019 include Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita. who have three nominations for best album, best band and musician of the year for Seckou Keita
Welsh language artist Gwilym Bowen Rhys is a nominee for Folk Singer of the Year.
Last year’s winner of the BBBC Radio 2 Musician of the Year Glasgow concertina player Mohsen Amini is once again a contender in the same category for his work with two traditional Scottish bands: Talisk and Ímar.
And Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia have fun reinventing the music of Kurt Weill for accordion and clarinets on their disc ‘Round About Weill’.
Music details:
KEITA/FINCH: Hinna-Djulo - Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita (BENDIGEDIG BENDI2)
TRAD: Lloer Dirion Lliw’r Dydd - Gwilym Bowen Rhys (SBRIGYNYMBORTH PROMOARENIG)
SPIROGRAPH STUDIOS: Kindness not Courtesy - Spirograph Studies (BANDCAMP)
PREVIN: Song, from Tango Song and Dance - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), André Previn (pno) (DG 471 500)
AMINI: Montreal - Talisk (TALISK PROMOBEYOND)
AMINI: Afar - Ímar (BIGMANN PROMOAVALANCHE)
WEILL: Mack the Knife - Ute Lemper (UNCAT FV31)
WEILL: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny - Gianluigi Trovesi & Gianni Coscia (ECM 982 4131)
KEITA/FINCH: Clarach - Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita (BENDIGEDIG BENDI2)
TRAD: Da Gennyf Air o Ganu - Gwilym Bowen Rhys (SBRIGYNYMBORTH PROMOARENIG)
