The winner of this year’s World Pioneer award is Peggy Seeger. An American singer and musician who calls England her home, Seeger has been a seismic figure in folk music for seven decades. In a year that included her final album and final tour, Robin Denselow celebrates a revelatory career and speaks to the family members who have been at her side throughout
Kwanele Sosibo picks ten albums showing how the Southern African style has evolved from working-class folk songs to expressing a fugitive urban masculinity
Profiling six stand-out Québécois groups who will be appearing at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections in January 2026
Europe’s premier winter music festival returns for its 33rd edition with a programme featuring Grammy winners, folk legends and artists from Cuba to Québec
Syrian conductor shows solidarity with Choose Love and their humanitarian mission
Eliza Carthy takes on the challenge of judging this year’s finest music books
Tim Cumming listens to new folk releases from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Emergent Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Ni Maxine gives a musical guide to her city
On her new album, Noura Mint Seymali has revitalised a Mauritanian wedding tradition. “Songs are like memes”, she tells Charis McGowan
Charis McGowan talks to Ibibio Sound Machine about a historic musical fundraiser for Palestine
Ahead of a rare joint performance at London’s Pitchfork Festival, Charis McGowan hears how an unexpected musical collaboration formed
Global fusion collective Mishra and Sufi vocalist Deepa Shakthi talk to Tony Gillam about their genre-bending collaboration
Chris Wheatley speaks to Percy A Flores Navarro, the mind behind a new project infusing Peruvian pandilla with jazz, electronics and surf guitar
The Congolese guitar hero speaks to Michał Wieczorek about the peripatetic life of a soukous emissary
Chris Wheatley speaks to a Swedish imprint whose output ranges from Indian classical to West African rituals
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