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Obituary: Simon Emmerson (1956-2023)
The Afro Celt Sound System founder, initiator of The Imagined Village, record producer, composer, guitarist and birdsong enthusiast has passed away
The Afro Celt Sound System founder, initiator of The Imagined Village, record producer, composer, guitarist and birdsong enthusiast has passed away
Organisers of the Folk on Foot podcast are planning a special Easter Bank Holiday Monday virtual festival in order to help musicians impacted by the coronavirus lockdown
Simon Broughton gives the low-down of all nine concerts from the recent Songlines Encounters Festival at Kings Place in London, May 30-June 2
The opening weekend of the much-loved Portuguese festival celebrated its 20th anniversary with four evenings of free concerts in the seaside town of Porto Covo
We've noted 50 great moments from 7000BC to the present day – concerts and confrontations, collaborations and conspiracies – all of which have shaped the sounds we're listening to today
The first-ever Songlines hit the shelves in early 1999, its genesis stemmed from a complaint about what constitutes ‘world music’. Here, current editor Russ Slater Johnson speaks to founding editor Simon Broughton about the magazine’s beginnings
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