Emily Portman talks about her search for magic and modern connections in the folk tales that inform her music
The pioneering minimalist composer talks about the Indian music that captured his imagination and his tutelage under Pandit Pran Nath
When not herding reindeer, Finnish mother-daughter duo Solju are bringing the Sámi tradition of joiking to wider audiences
Tom Cohen, conductor of the Jerusalem Orchestra East & West, previews the collective’s forthcoming performance at the Barbican with Moroccan multi-instrumentalist Mehdi Nassouli
One of Papua New Guinea’s most celebrated singer-songwriters talks secret society survival strategies, and hypes up some of his region’s most essential artists and albums
Tim Cumming assembles an anatomy of melancholia as he speaks to Tyne and Wear’s finest folk-singing sisters about their career and catalogue
Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and one third of boundary-crossing folk group The Trials of Cato talks turning points, top albums and clandestine synth strategies
The Welsh trio VRï are injecting new life into traditional songs, mining the country’s past for the stories of everyday people
The music of the world has been constantly shaped by its wider contexts – from politics to economics and social movements. Here Chris Moss selects the most important genres to have been born across the last 100-plus years
Folk experimentalist and music scholar champions Rudimentary Peni rebellion and Richard Dawson’s disparate musical bricolage
The Belarusian accordionist tells us how he is seeking to revolutionise the instrument's image with his debut album
Portuguese singer Sara Correia reveals the toughness and will that saw her journey from the high-rise blocks of working-class Lisbon to the global stage
Punk-rock brothers Mongo and Kacho Gama explain how they became the unlikely ambassadors of Mexico’s marimba scene
Boosting Dylan and talking world medal martial arts with the Irish singer and fiddle-player channelling the music of her ancestors
One of the world’s foremost sound recordists talks about capturing the genius loci and his enduring love of reggae
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