Wednesday, May 29, 2024
BCUC: Trusting in Love
Diane Coetzer talks to the South African band BCUC who are exporting their traditional Soweto music across the globe and mesmerising audiences, one transcendental show at a time
Features
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Folk Round-Up (Kitewing, Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog, Session A9 and more)
Billy Rough picks out some choice new folk albums from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi: Challenging perceptions of home and belonging
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi revisit classic folk songs on their latest release. The pair talk about the continuing relevance of folk music, the concept of home and life during lockdown
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Roots Round-Up (Abigail Lapell, Scott H Biram, Reyna Tropical and more)
A selection of essential releases from the US and Canada including new albums from Creekbed Carter Hogan, Abigail Lapell and Reyna Tropical
Friday, May 10, 2024
Margareth Menezes: from Carnival Queen to Brazil's Minister of Culture
Margareth Menezes, an icon of Afro-Brazilian music and Salvador’s carnival, talks to Oleno Netto about her European tour and her plans as Brazil’s new Minister of Culture
Friday, May 10, 2024
UK Festival Guide 2024
Another year, another full season of festivals to revive the soul and please the senses! Where better to plan your summer of culture than with our annual guide to the best festivals in the UK?
Friday, May 10, 2024
National Youth Folk Ensemble: Melodious Beginnings
Izzy Felton visits an inclusive training ground for the next generation of England’s folk musicians
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Sväng: A Beginner's Guide
Fiona Talkington unpacks the harmonica quartet’s trajectory, from the mind of Finland’s first mouth-harp graduate to an internationally acclaimed troupe with a repertoire ranging from Radiohead and Harry Potter to tango and Chopin
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Bagpipe Albums | Essential 10
Criminally castigated and distinctly uncool, bagpipes are a mainstay of many traditional musics and are also increasingly finding favour as an experimental instrument of choice. Chris Wheatley picks out ten albums filled with more than just hot air
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Introducing... Ana Lua Caiano
After years of listening to traditional music and protest songs, Björk and Portishead, one of Portugal’s most exciting new singers tells Gonçalo Frota how she created a world all her own
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Holy Cowley: the return of the Cowley Road Carnival
With Cowley Road Carnival returning for the first time in five years, Fred Waine takes a trip to Oxford’s melting pot
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Spotlight: Sara Curruchich
The Guatemalan singer-songwriter tells Catalina Maria Johnson about her determination to represent women and carry the knowledge of her Indigenous heritage through music. “It’s a revolutionary act,” she confides
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Laura Cannell: “I take my instruments and I drive off to a church and, if it’s empty, I just sneak in and play”
Olivia Cheves speaks to composer and musician Laura Cannell about her compulsion to make music, why she had to find her own traditions and why she’d love to record an album in an aircraft hangar
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Meeting Avalanche Kaito: “There is rhythm, there is noise, the sound of the texture is crazy”
Belgian trio Avalanche Kaito, led by Burkinabé griot Kaito Winse, have driven their post-punk assaults to combustible extremes on their latest album
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Frank Cottrell-Boyce's My World Interview
Russ Slater Johnson speaks to the screenwriter and author about Irish jigs, anti-recruiting songs and how a scouser gave Manchester a city motto
