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STOP PRESS: Ahmed Mukhtar has won the Alhambra Arts Award at the annual Muslim News Awards for Excellence. The aim of the awards is to recognise Britain's unsung Muslim heroes and heroines from the worlds of politics, business, sport and the arts at a ceremony that recognizes the very best of Muslim contribution to the British society. "This Awards ceremony is about recognizing those individuals who aspire to attain their very best as members of our society," Ahmed J Versi, editor of The Muslim News said. Mukhtar's award, the Alhambnra Award for Arts, was presented by Cardinal Murphy O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster
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Ahmed Mukhtar has worked with many folk music groups and musicians in Baghdad. He studied Oud and percussion with the masters Ganim Hadad and Jameel Jerjis and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. Since 1990 he has been performing, teaching and touring throughout the Middle East and Europe. (Damascus, Amman, Cairo, Tunisia, Algeria, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Khartoum, London, Paris, New York, Boston, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Brussels, Stockholm, Vienna, Madrid, Geneva, Rome and Istanbul). For East Neuk Festival he gives an hour of absorbing music, solo by candlelight, complementing concerts featuring lute and clarsach.
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Sheila Chandra first found fame as an actress - in Grange Hill - but I heard her first performing an astonishing piece of mouth-music inspired by tabla playing. That was 15 years ago, and she has continued to follow her own path musically, exploring aspects of Asian and European vocal traditions en route. Her fascination with drones has brought her close to the piping traditions of Scotland, and she had a great success with her recording of McCrimmond's Lament. Her performance at East Neuk Festival contributes to a mini-strand of contrasting vocal traditions - the others being English (The Orlando Consort and Tuvan (Huun Huur Tu). They are programmed to complement and contrast with each other.
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