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1. 1. Various Artists - BBC Radio 3 Awards For World Music (Manteca)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 14 March 2003 WITH so much diverse music from around the world to celebrate, it's surprising that Radio 3's laudable event is the first of its kind.

2. 2. Various Artists - The Rough Guide To Highlife (World Music Network)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 07 February 2003 HIGHLIFE music, the upfront and upbeat guitar-led music of West Africa, enjoyed its heyday in the sixties and seventies, fuelled by a spirit of hope and expectation that marked the end of the colonial era.

3. 3. Javier Ruibal - Sahara (Riverboat Records/World Music Network)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 05 September 2003 COINCIDENTALLY, a little over half of the tracks on the international debut from Spanish singer-songwriter Javier Ruibal were recorded in Tarifa.

4. 4. Manchester music takes on the world

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 January 2003 IT'S crystal ball time for Rock Manchester. 2002 was the greatest year yet for our new stars, with Doves and Badly Drawn Boy establishing themselves as greats and the new wave making their biggest noise yet. As the Hogmanay chimes fade, here's how things look like panning out in 2003.

5. 5. Music Festivals 2003

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 13 May 2003 SPRING has sprung and it's time to get your music festival plans into gear.

6. 6. Worldport Festival

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 30 June 2003 LOVERS of jazz, blues, soul and world music are in for a treat at The Lowry with the arrival& of& the Worldport Festival..

7. 7. Worldport set to dock at Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 July 2003 FROM Nitin Sawhney to Dennis Rollins to Jalikunda Cissokho, the stars of world music are flocking to The Lowry for this month’s Worldport Festival.

8. 8. Malmaison: Ecoutez Et Repetez Deux (Malmaison) & The Very Best Of Cold Feet (Universal)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 21 March 2003 TWO compilations linked only by their Manchester-ness. The Malmaison disc attempts to encapsulate the hotel's vibe on a disc. That means 'modern chill' and a nod towards the more cosmopolitan end of world music.

9. 9. A change of Image

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 22 January 2003 PUBLIC Image Ltd musician Jah Wobble gave up drink and drugs in the mid-eighties, so it was in a tea house at a world music festival in Finland that he met Zi-Lan, a Chinese-born harpist who became his wife.

10. 10. Starsailor - Silence Is Easy (EMI)

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 September 2003 TWO years is a long time in the world of music, just ask Starsailor’s principle songwriter James Walsh.

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