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Introducing the June 2025 issue of Songlines, an Africa Special
Tony Allen: the beat lives on | Femi Kuti on Fela Kuti | Pedro Ben: Mozambique icon | Nyege Nyege: Uganda’s #1 party | La Réunion: Island classics | Rwanda: Folk portrait
Tony Allen: the beat lives on | Femi Kuti on Fela Kuti | Pedro Ben: Mozambique icon | Nyege Nyege: Uganda’s #1 party | La Réunion: Island classics | Rwanda: Folk portrait
Yves Lambert is celebrating half a century of making music by continuing to push the boundaries of Québécois folk. “I’m more and more experimental”, he confides
A new play about the Peterloo massacre took centre stage at Manchester Folk Festival
Meet a feverish quartet tying a knot between jazz, psych, maloya and Burkinabé music
I’m With Her’s Sara Watkins talks about the trio’s creative bond and the theme of generational connection that underpins their new album
1950s Havana comes alive as a new immersive cabaret and music experience comes to the capital
Ahead of a UK tour performing The Liberated Woman’s Songbook, the North Carolina singer-songwriter talks us through five formative albums
Anoushka Shankar – an in-depth conversation with the sitarist about her extraordinary new trilogy of albums and how she’s feeling as powerful as she’s ever been
Carolina Chocolate Drops – a Songlines salute to the reuniting string band saviours
New Spanish Folkies – a new wave of Spanish artists exploring regional traditions
Brazylia – Polish folk music in Brazil’s hinterlands
Merlin Sheldrake – discussing mushrooms, music and everything in between
Iranian Albums – ten essential albums from Iran’s underground
Flook – a Beginner’s Guide to the flute-driven folk foursome
Cuban Sundays – a new residency bringing live Cuban music to London
Grammys – how the Grammys are failing to truly be ‘global’
+ 15-track Top of the World album (CD & download)
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