The Audience Award One of the main awards has now been decided by you the audience. The winner will be announced at the Poll Winners concert in March. A huge thanks to all those who contributed. It was wonderful to see such a wide-ranging list of nominations (left) and the way so many of the musicians have touched your lives.
Here are the bands who were voted onto the final shortlist. Click on each name to read more about them and click on the 'listen' icon to hear a selected track from each band. A large selection of your comments can be found by clicking on the list to the left.
Allen Conway, France:
'Pan'sori is little known about and even less heard and the pan'sori performance she gave in Paris was an extraordinary experience.'
Hyeran, Essex:
'I could listen to Korean "Pansori" all day - what an amazing voice! It pulls out the deep soul inside me. I hope world music lovers can have a chance to hear the exotic voice in London!'
Yangkyu, London:
'I've known about Pansori as a traditional Korean story telling. Especially, Young-Ja has such a dramatic and pure voice. During Pansori performance, anybody can put any improvisation like a oh,ho! ulssu! jokta! (it means good in Korean). And also, let's enjoy fantastic Korean percussion (Puk).'
