Category: Radio
3; 大象传媒
FOUR
Date: 02.07.2004
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Building
on its successful four-year partnership with WOMAD, 大象传媒 Radio 3 this
year sets up residency at the Village Stage where it hosts acoustic
evening sets, World on Your Street events and Radio 3's regular world
music shows.
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Radio 3 broadcasts almost ten hours of live music, as
well as presenting an extra 15 hours of music performance live at the
world's leading world music festival.
Acoustic music is a strong feature of Radio 3's festival coverage. Each
night of the festival at 1.001pm, Radio 3 presents acoustic performances
on the Village Stage.
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On Friday Fiona Talkington introduces Irish accordionist
Sharon Shannon; on Saturday Andy Kershaw introduces Dimi
Mint Abba from Mauritania; and on Sunday Verity Sharp completes
the weekend with late-night music from young Indian sitar player Purbayan
Chatterjee.
Radio 3's broadcasts 聳 including live sets, recorded highlights,
interviews and special performances 聳 cover the entire weekend,
from Friday night (23 July) with Andrew McGregor and Verity Sharp,
to Andy Kershaw in his usual 10.15pm timeslot on Sunday 25 July.
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The coverage continues throughout the following week
in Late Junction presented by Fiona Talkington, culminating in a second
World Routes special with Lucy Duran on Saturday 31 July.
WOMAD Weekend
Friday 23 July
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10.05-11.30pm 聳 Andrew McGregor and Verity Sharp
starts the weekend with a show including performances from Souad Massi
(Algeria) and Sharon Shannon (Ireland).
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Saturday 24 July
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3.00-4.00pm 聳 Lucy Duran introduces a live World
Routes from the Siam Tent, featuring the desert music of Malouma from
Mauritania.
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10.50pm-1.00am 聳 Andrew McGregor is joined by Verity
Sharp for live performances from Tinariwen (Mali) and Yair Dalal (Israel),
and highlights from Nigel Kennedy and Kroke (UK and Poland), and Senegalese
rappers Daara J.
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Sunday 25 July
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10.15pm-midnight 聳 Andy Kershaw rounds off the
weekend in his usual slot with music from DJ Dolores (Brazil) and Ljiliana
Buttler and Mostar Sevdah Reunion (Bosnia).
Late Junction
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Monday 26, Tuesday 27 and Thursday 29 July
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10.15pm-midnight - featuring
WOMAD highlights presented by Fiona Talkington.
World Routes
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Saturday 31 July
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3.00-4.00pm - Lucy Duran introduces
a specially recorded set from the Siam Tent by the Grand Orchestre Taarab
de Zanzibar.
World On Your Street
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Radio 3's World on your Street project is a showcase
for the enormous wealth of music from across the globe which can be
found on our doorstep here in the UK.
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This year, the World on your Street stage moves to new
location 聳 and larger tent 聳 next to the Village Stage.
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The emphasis is still on intimate acoustic performances
from UK-based musicians.
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Friday will feature Africa on your Street, Saturday
brings you Latin America on your Street, and Sunday will be a global
mix including the premiere of World Wide Unplugged 聳 exciting collaborations
between poets and musicians who have created new performance pieces
on the theme of music.
There are also two World on your Street showcases on the Village Stage:
Kurdish musicians Living Fire (Friday 23 July, 3.30-4.30pm) and Congolese
band Soukous Koumbele (Sunday 25 July, 2.00-3.00pm).
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For more information about this initiative and the stories
behind the musicians go to bbc.co.uk/radio3
The Radio 3 website will feature artist profiles, photos, video footage
and the chance to hear the live WOMAD programmes for seven days after
each broadcast.
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All the WOMAD concerts recorded for Radio 3 will be
available online for a full year: this means full concerts and is a
fantastic resource for any fan of world music! Just go to bbc.co.uk/radio3
大象传媒 FOUR at WOMAD
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大象传媒 FOUR will once again be at the WOMAD Festival in
Reading, broadcasting live from the site on Saturday 24 July in a programme
which features Tinariwen.
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On Friday 13 August at 9.00pm 大象传媒 Four presents a two-hour
compilation programme featuring a selection of artists performing at
the festival; plus four one-hour concerts will be broadcast in the autumn.
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