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Songlines Magazine

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Songlines magazine covers the world's most exciting music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion, featuring artists from all around the globe, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, from Miriam Makeba to Mariza, from Gilberto Gil to Gogol Bordello.

Songlines is packed full of the latest CD reviews, artist interviews, guides to particular world music traditions, concert-listings, travel stories and every issue comes with an exclusive compilation CD.

Edited by Simon Broughton, co-editor of The Rough Guide to World Music, Songlines boasts the very best writers and includes an irreverent column from radio DJ Andy Kershaw.


World music news and latest happenings

7.05.08

Win tickets to this year’s WOMAD Festival at Charlton Park, Wiltshire on July 25-27

30.04.08

The new June 2008 Songlines podcast is now available through iTunes

30.04.08

The new June issue of Songlines is on sale from May 2 featuring The Magic Numbers’ Romeo Stodart’s playlist and the editor’s choice of the 10 best new releases

28.04.08

China Music Village cancelled but Diaspora Music Village 2008 goes ahead

21.04.08

The BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008 winners are…

14.02.08

Mali’s Vieux Farka Touré plays London’s Jazz Café as part of the Songlines @ 50 concert series on May 10

21.01.08

Andy Palacio (1960-2008)

27.08.07

Manu Chao talks exclusively about his new album on the Sept/Oct #46 podcast

19.10.06

Announcing the launch of Songlines at all major WHSmith stores across the UK

17.03.06

Songlines has just celebrated its first foreign language edition of the magazine – published in Farsi in Iran

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