With a nomination for a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award, they've become a presence on the world music scene.

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He was honoured with the Green World Award at the Midem music conference for the festival's history of environmental fundraising and ecological initiatives.

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Winners announced ahead of the main event included the late Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, whose award for best world music album was collected by his daughter Anoushka.

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Her sister, the singer Chandrika Tandon, was nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award in the Contemporary World Music category.

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Others in the running for an guild award in March include BBC Radio 3's World and Music, a sequence of classical music interspersed with both popular and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors.

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