The Listeners Award One of the main awards has been decided by you the listeners. The vote is now closed, and the winner will be announced on 28 January. The top four artists are listed below.
Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (India)
nominated by Marc P Gabriel, Cambridge:
This group of amazing artists makes highly enjoyable traditional Tibetan music. Although they have to live and work in exile, in India, they managed to preserve the originality and variety of Tibetan music, celebrating their Buddhist culture. This tremendous effort alone, but on top the wonderful result of their work deseves an international award as this one (and there are not many) to encourage other traditional musicians in the world to celebrate their cultures. This, for me, is true World Music.
