One of the venerated veterans of the English folk scene

 www.shoesalemarket.comThe largest producer of Harris Tweed has made South Korea its target market for growth in 2012.Shawbost-based Harris Tweed Hebrides said orders for its produce in general were already 25% ahead of the same stage last year.The company said demand was so high in 2011 it had to turn away work because there were not enough weavers to meet the orders.Japan was the Western Isles mill's biggest market last year.Chairman Brian Wilson said there was a tendency for South Korean fashion to follow the lead from Japan and the mill was seeing a rise in demand from Korea.He added: "It is important to get the message out to the weavers and their families as well as our own workforce that everything is looking very positive for Harris Tweed and that we are anticipating another growth year."Harris Tweed Hebrides produces 80% of the fabric made on the islands.This year's Brit Award nominations are announced in London later. The Brits honour the year's biggest and best stars, and all artists must have had a top 40 single or album in the UK to be eligible.But there are always a few gems that do not make the top 40 - the treats that have less commercial appeal, are not in step with fashion, get little promotion or get overlooked for some other reason.Here is an alternative list of artists who did not make the top 40 but could have found a wider audience in 2011.This R&B singer from Toxteth in Liverpool went to the Brit performing arts school. But it is across the Atlantic that her glossy sound has found success. Her debut solo album Late Nights & Early Mornings features a collaboration with Alicia Keys and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards.

 outlet louis vuittonIt went to number two in the US when it was released in March.One of the venerated veterans of the English folk scene, Tabor released two acclaimed albums in 2011 - one solo, Ashore, inspired by the sea, and the other, Ragged Kingdom, recorded with The Oysterband, 21 years after their first collaboration. At times she comes across as PJ Harvey's long-lost folky mother and she has four nominations for next month's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.Amid a morass of mediocre indie bands, this enigmatic Mancunian quartet were among the only the ones aiming to take guitar pop somewhere different and coming halfway close to achieving it. It was in both Q and NME magazines' top 10 albums of the year lists, while their incomprehensible, impassioned yelping recently left TV host David Letterman bemused after an appearance on his show.The album Diamond Mine was a collaboration between singer, songwriter and record label owner King Creosote and Hopkins, an electronic artist who has worked with Coldplay and Brian Eno. Described as a "romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village", it combined simple folk melodies, atmospheric synth washes and stuttering beats and was nominated for last year's Mercury Prize.This band make refined, lyrical and highly tuneful songs, with their wistful and whimsical tone drawing comparisons with The Divine Comedy. Led by Londoner Nick Hemming, their 2009 debut album was nominated for two prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards and the follow-up Into the Murky Water proves they have the talent to sustain a fruitful career The second album by the exhilarating Tune-Yards, aka America's Merrill Garbus, was near the top of many critics' end-of-year lists. She made her name with a DIY debut album recorded on a hand-held dictaphone in 2009.

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