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WOMAD announces first names for 2024
Amadou & Mariam, Sampa The Great, Baaba Maal and Yungchen Lhamo amongst first names announced for this year's WOMAD festival
Amadou & Mariam, Sampa The Great, Baaba Maal and Yungchen Lhamo amongst first names announced for this year's WOMAD festival
Robert Plant’s Saving Grace and an exclusive Transatlantic Sessions showcase among the early highlights for this summer’s iteration of the celebrated music summit, which marks its 60th anniversary this year
Lankum, Angeline Morrison, Tinariwen, Gao Hong & Kadialy Kouyate, Puuluup, Kaushiki Chakraborty, James Acaster… plus we have a UK Festival Guide and announce the winners of the Songlines Music Awards!
Why is there so much snobbery and closed-mindedness about jazz from the ‘world music police’?
Fela Kuti is synonymous with Afrobeat, but there are two other underappreciated pioneers of the genre. Nigel Williamson speaks to Tony Allen and Orlando Julius
A special 80th birthday concert, celebrating the work of Bert Jansch, will be held on November 4 at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall
With Cowley Road Carnival returning for the first time in five years, Fred Waine takes a trip to Oxford’s melting pot
The Irish button accordionist from County Clare is known for her genre-crossing collaborations, taking traditional Irish music to places it’s never been before. Michael Quinn looks back over her impressive career
Fanfare Ciocărlia are the planet’s foremost Balkan brass band, soundtracking Guinness and Ikea ads, covered and copied, remixed and sampled, winning international awards and, night after night, taking their furious brass blast to the stage
Kamancheh masters, English folk song and dance, young-old Romanian collaborations and more in the latest issue of Songlines
A new archive of English protest songs comes to Cecil Sharp House for a live performance and exhibition launch
Nigel Williamson takes a look at the rise to global fame and fortune of West Africa’s golden couple
Following their chance meeting and the success of their previous indie-jazz collaborations, the Indo-Scots trio speak to Liam Izod about their third album
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