Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Orkney Folk Festival’s Farewell Concert 2025
Simon Broughton heads to the Orkney Folk Festival for a breathtaking and inspiring finale
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Setting the Scene: Elana Sasson
Fresh from the release of her ambitious ensemble album, In Between, the singer-composer waxes lyrical about cultural life in her new home of Valencia
Friday, May 30, 2025
La Faute des Fleurs – a portrait of Kazuki Tomokawa (To the Moon & Back #4)
Vincent Moon heads to Japan for an incendiary encounter with the enigmatic howling poet, Kazuki Tomokawa
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Yves Lambert: the Québécois maverick embracing his golden age
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
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Peterloo remembered: Sean Cooney’s haunting folk chronicle of resistance and remembrance
A new play about the Peterloo massacre took centre stage at Manchester Folk Festival
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Lagon Nwar: a borderless groove forged in Ouagadougou, La Réunion and Paris
Meet a feverish quartet tying a knot between jazz, psych, maloya and Burkinabé music
Thursday, May 15, 2025
I’m With Her return with lush folk meditation on family and time
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
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Paradise Under The Stars brings Cuban cabaret to life in West Kensington
1950s Havana comes alive as a new immersive cabaret and music experience comes to the capital
Thursday, May 15, 2025
The 4 Corners and Centre of Dawn Landes' Universe
Ahead of a UK tour performing The Liberated Woman’s Songbook, the North Carolina singer-songwriter talks us through five formative albums
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica
Attendees of the Island Music Conference discuss the legacy of Jamaica’s golden era during Reggae Month
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Guru Nanak’s Day of Peace
A whole day (April 6) was spent celebrating Guru Nanak, culminating in a five-hour concert organised by Darbar Festival, who have recently begun a partnership with the Barbican Centre
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Masa Nazzal’s 'Slovenia Inshallah' turns sound into solidarity
Masa Nazzal returned from the Bosnian-Croatian border with an archive of sounds and stories that became a new way of understanding the world. “Listening [is] like a hand that reaches out”, she reflects
Thursday, May 15, 2025
A Conversation with Pedro Ben: “The idea was to put Mozambican music on the map, to show that it existed”
Fifty years on from Mozambique’s independence, one of the country’s leading singers tells the story of a legendary album. Richard Gray finds out about making music in a free Mozambique…
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Remembering Tony Allen: “His sound was so beautiful, so sensual, so chic, that it stood out immediately”
Daniel Brown looks at the astonishing legacy of pioneering Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, and how the rhythms he left behind continue to innovate and inspire
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Music & Morality in Rwanda
David Green visits Rwanda to discover how traditional instruments accompany age-old tales of morality, revenge and discipline, as well as animal conservation. ‘We, the people of Rwanda, will never betray the gorillas again’, he hears… Photos by David Green
