Some of my favorite artists:

• Mari Boine
(my "fan page" ;-)
• June Tabor
(my "fan page" ;-)
• Veda Hille
• Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag
• Farmers Market
• Madredeus
• Värttinä
• Jan Garbarek
• Arild Andersen
• Sidsel Endresen
• Stina Nordenstam
• Wimme Saari
• Groupa
• Garmana (Garmana @ Massproduktion)
• David Darling
• Maria Joao
• Dino Saluzzi
• VEDAKI
• Björk Guðmundsdóttir
(the ultimate intimate)
• Mila Mar
• ...

For more details about the music I like, check my "recommended listening" CD list.

As you probably noticed, I am specially interested in Jazz and World Music. In the last years, radio stations like Radio Bremen 2 and NDR 4 have produced great concerts and broadcasts in this field - e.g. with Mari Boine, June Tabor, Jan Garbarek and others. I can only recommend to check their broadcasting schedules for such events and then start your DAT recorder - as I do quite often ;-).

Unfortunately it is sometimes not very easy to get hands on the music I like. If you are in the same situation, you might want to have a look at the following places:

• Digelius Music in Helsinki, Finland,  http://www.digelius.com/
  (focused on Scandinavian music, mail order, very good online catalogue)
   
  Digelius Music, Laivurinrinne 2, 00120 Helsinki, Finland
  fax: +358 9 628950, phone: +358 9 666375, pap@digelius.com
   
• Multikulti in Stockholm, Sweden,  http://www.multikulti.se/
  (mail order, very good online catalogue)
   
  Multi Kulti, Sankt Paulsgatan 3, 11846 Stockholm, Sweden
  phone/fax: +46 8 6436129, multi.kulti@swipnet.se
   
• Canzone in Berlin, Germany,
  ... seems to be only mail-order since 2002 http://www.canzone-online.de/
   
  Old address (probably outdated now ...)  http://www.canzone.de/
  Canzone, Savignypassage, S-Bahnbogen 583, 10623 Berlin, Germany
  mailorder phone: +49 30 3131578, fax: +49 30 3126527, phone: +49 30 3124027, worldmusic@canzone.de