Thursday, June 9, 2022
Live Review: Nancy Vieira at OFFest
Cape Verdean songstress captures hearts and souls at North Macedonian world music summit
Live reviews
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Lido Pimienta at Botanique
No Belgian waffle as Colombian sensation bombs the bass with May 9 Brussels showcase
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Times New Román at Budapest Ritmo, April 7
New Hungarian five-piece wow Simon Broughton at Budapest Ritmo
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Park Jiha and Roy Claire Potter Bring Saenghwangs and Spoken Word to Cafe OTO
Korean multi-instrumentalist and British performance poet showcase work from their newly released collaboration
Monday, November 29, 2021
Songs for Babyn Yar
Wartime atrocity remembered through story and song at London's JW3
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Trepp & Friends short-step to success at annual Tallinn showcase
Reportage from the Fenno-Ugria Night at this year's edition of Tallinn Music Week
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Sevdalini's plaintive sevdah parables enchant at Swedish self-catering summit
Nostalgia and longing suffuse an impassioned night of bewitching Bosnian blues at Malmö's Viktoria Teatern
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Tales of bloody murder and trans-Carpathian travails captivate at Ethno Port
Mateusz Dobrowolski dives into the international programme on offer at the risk-taking Poznań festival
Monday, October 26, 2020
WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Four, October 24
Simon Broughton checks into the last day of digital performances and enjoys the concerts of Hungarian bands with a real audience that took place in Budapest.
Saturday, October 24, 2020
WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Three, October 23
Alexandra Petropoulos tunes in for the Friday Digital Showcases of WOMEX 2020 and picks her highlights, from warm maloya to jazz kaval
Friday, October 23, 2020
WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Two, October 22
Jo Frost picks out some highlights from the second evening of WOMEX Digital Showcases, ranging from busking Malawians to Mexican marimba mayhem
Thursday, October 22, 2020
WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day One, October 21
Simon Broughton runs from one showcase to another without moving a muscle on the first night of WOMEX 2020 in nowhere land and picks some highlights
Friday, January 31, 2020
Meklit among the marvels at globalFEST 2020
Tom Pryor reports from New York’s annual globalFEST, featuring Meklit, Tufan Derince Trio and Ak Dan Gwang Chil
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Angélique Kidjo goes orchestral!
Martin Longley reports on Angélique Kidjo's ongoing relationship with orchestral music, this time with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra in concert in Brussels
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
A world of jazz and beyond at Poland's Jazztopad
As jazz festivals around the world start to embrace international sounds, Martin Longley got to grips with the eclectic line-up of the Jazztopad festival in Wrocław
