The 7th MokumTV Annual Celebration:
Music of the World Award (MWA)

The Music of the World Award (MWA), not to be confused with the World Music Awards (WMA) is an international awards that annually honors recording artists that recorded outstanding albums in the field of World Music, not on their worldwide sales figures.

The 7th MokumTV Awards for World Music, that took place in Amsterdam Westerpark on the first hour of 1th Jauary. This annual celebration has become a fixture on the World Music Calendar.

Never a competition was more close as the voting-period ended on December 29 GMT. How close it all was: the differendes between nuber 1 and number 2 in the category Best African CD with a total of 7409 was just 3 votes!

• Link to the Google On-demand video

The awards show is conducted under the patronage of MokumTV, the Netherlands, since 1982 broadcasting on what is now the UPC A1 cable network from Amsterdam.
MokumTV is the executive producer and co-founder of the annual MWA.. Before 2005 only fhe Legend Awards were broadcasted on the Amsterdam A1 Channel. In 2003 the late Jacques Brel was the winner.

Other MWA-winners included Amalia Rodrigues, Leo Fuld and the Dutch duo Tante Leen (on the picture during a live-performance in London) & Johnny Jordaan.

For the 7th MWA the suggested candidates were:

Orchestra Baobab - Made in Dakar YouTube
Habib Koité & Bamada – Afriki YouTube
Atongo Zimba - Barefoot in the Sand GoogleVideo YouTube
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba - Segu Blue YouTube
The Ottoman Mehter - Eski Dostlar YouTube
Burhan Öcal & Trakya All Stars - Trakya Dance Party YouTube
Te Vaka - Olatia
Gaudi & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Dub Qawwali YouTube
Sami Savni Özer YouTube
Raj Mohan - Kantráki
Zara
Shantel - Disko partizani Shante
Manu Chao - La Radiolina
Viorica & Ionitsa - Clejani Express A Devlka
Taraf de Haïdouks - Maskarada YouTube
Roy Paci & Aretuska - Suono Global
Nass el Ghiwan - Nahla Chama YouTube
Mustafa Kandirali
Al Kindi - Parfums Ottomans GoogleVideo doc24min YouTube
Pablo Ziegler e.a. - Buenos Aires Report
Chavela Vargas - Cupaima
Shleu shleu d'Haiti YouTube
Bob Brozman Orchestra - Lumiere
Joni Mitchell - Shine YouTube
Maria de Fátima - Alma
Manu Chao - La radiolina
Amadou & Mariam
Atongo Zimba - Barefoot in the Sand YouTube
Konono No. 1
Dobet Gnahore
Lura YouTube
Daby Toure
Oum Kalsoum YouTube
Orchestra Baobab
Jil Jilala YouTube 1 - YouTube 2
Nuovo Compagnia di Canta Populare YouTube
Carlos Santana
Ibrahim Tatlises YouTube
Cheb Mami YouTube
Bokoor Beats - Afrorock and pop from the 70s
Leo Fuld - The Legend YouTube
Pol - Googoosh - Iran YouTube

The 2008 edition of MokumTV's Music of the World Award was held at the Amsterdam Westerpark and reached a worldwide audience in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America and Europe on internet, cable-network and independent broadcasters.

So push the agenda towards voting for next years award.

The voting procedure was coordinated byAnnemieke Telkamp of MokumTV.

• The World's best World Music artists in the various categories are determined by internet-voting of the audience and a jury, not on record company sales figures.
• Only one votation per IP is accepted.
  

Public could make sugestions for one or more of the sections by sending a mail mention

1. the categories to make nominations
2. the name of the artist or group
3. name of the album
4. country of origin
   

Between December 3 and 17, 2007: Public could suggest jury-members till friday November 30 2007 12.00 GMT.

• The internet voting started on Monday December 3 2007 12.00 GMT and was terminated December 28, 2007 12.00 pm GMT. The Polls are to be found on this website. Only one votation per IP was accepted. People using the internetcafé could mail their preference.

Kingsford Amankwah, Rita Ray, Brahim Ounasser, Winniefred Malele, Charlie Gillett, Erwin Josefa, Francis Falceto, Stan Rijven, Ben Mandelson, Frans Goossens, Eric Soul, Francis De Souza, Mary Ann Kennedy, Wieland Eggermont, Jan Fairley, Nigel Williamson, Scott Rollins, Mark Ellingham, José Melo, Max Reinhardt, Saskia Törnqvist, Martin van Aalst, Sam Farah, Cees Siekerman, Simon Broughton, Mattie Poels, William Dalrymple, Jair Tchong; Jamie Renton, Adnan Dalkiran,

Latest suggestions: Sammy Adanu (head entertainment Ghana TV3), Jonathan Hammond (from the music shop at Katamanto in Accra), Opera Pietje

The 7th MokumTV Awards for World Music took place in Amsterdam Westerpark on 31th December.

This annual celebration originated from the annual European Worlmusiclist provided by Disques Pastor. Back in 1975 Karel Pastor and Cees Siekerman of Disques Pastor in Paris/Haarlem had running an album poll in the shops to find out the best of World Music that year. Since it was broadcasted by MokumTV in 2001 it has become a fixture on the World Music Calendar. This year you can experience the awards with live broadcasts, a webcast and video on demand available after the event.

• The 2007 7th MokumTV Awards for World Music winner Atongo Zimba
• The 2006 6th MokumTV Awards for World Music winner Nass el-Ghiwan
• The 2005 5th MokumTV Awards for World Music winner Johnny Jordaan & Tante Leen
• The 2004 4th MokumTV Awards for World Music winner Fairuz
• The 2003 3rd MokumTV Awards for World Music winner Jacques Brel
• The 2002 2nd MokumTV Awards for World Music winner Leo Fuld
• The 2001 1st MokumTV Awards for World Music winner Amalia Rodrigues

For the first time the Poll-Winner's concert will also be live webcast, so you can watch online too.

An hour after the Poll-Winner's are announced it will be possible to watch it as Video on Demand, including footage from backstage and artist interviews.

• Link to the Google On-demand video