Thursday, August 21, 2025
Eliza Carthy: “I first experienced sexual harassment at a festival when I was 14”
Eliza reflects on how the folk scene’s relaxed boundaries can enable unacceptable behaviour that should not be tolerated
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
Songbook: ‘A La Loma de Belén’ with Alex Cuba
Andrew Taylor-Dawson celebrates a 100-year-old Afro-Cuban classic that has inspired artistic imaginations across genres, generations and oceans
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Quickfire: Gabriel da Rosa
Brazilian singer and musician Gabriel da Rosa reveals the secrets to his easy-going charm
Friday, August 1, 2025
Q&A: Killabeatmaker
Colombian musician and producer Hilder Brando, aka Killabeatmaker, is touring with his riotous concoction of ancestral Caribbean traditions, Afro-house beats and sub-atomic bass
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Traces of Crimea (To the Moon & Back #5)
Vincent Moon releases Traces of Crimea, a feature-length film documenting the extraordinary music and stories of the Tatars, the Krymchaks, the Greeks and the Bulgarian communities of Crimea two years before its annexation by Russia
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Roots Round-Up (Irma Thomas, Chicken Milk, Missy Raines & Allegheny and more)
Bluegrass, galactic soul, honky-tonk, New Orleans creole traditions and musical mischief in our latest round-up of North American roots
Thursday, July 17, 2025
A Conversation with 47SOUL: "Music is medicine"
The Shamstep pioneers formed over a decade ago by four members of the Palestinian diaspora. In the context of Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza, their message has come into sharp focus. Erin Cobby speaks to the group
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Rebel Yells: 10 international anthems of protest and resistance
Joe Mulhall raises a dissenting voice with 10 international anthems of protest and resistance main photo by Syd Shelton
Thursday, July 17, 2025
All aboard Africa Express, next stop... Bahidorá
The globe-straddling cross-genre collective touch down in Mexico for an inspiring week of making music. Megan Iacobini de Fazio reports...
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Celebrating 60 years of Les Cousins, the folk club that shaped a generation
Tim Cumming talks to Jon Wilks about his Second Cousins stage at FolkEast, and the impact and influence of the legendary Les Cousins folk club on succeeding generations
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Mádé Kuti: “We can’t just keep blaming politicians. What are we doing? Do we treat others with respect?”
The Nigerian composer and multi-instrumentalist discusses his distinctive musical evolution. “Afrobeat is part of my DNA,” hears Daniel Brown
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Hekate: “We just completely lose ourselves in the music and the energy of us three singing together”
Jo Frost meets a bewitching a cappella trio at the forefront of a new Norwegian trad dance revival
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Triptic: eclectic, energetic and thoroughly intoxicating
Billy Rough tracks down a Scottish trio swirling through tango, klezmer, jazz and ‘Northern’ folk
Thursday, July 17, 2025
The 4 Corners and Centre of Nyboma’s Universe
The legend of Congolese rumba picks a selection of albums and songs that shaped him and continue to be his inspiration, decades into his highly influential career
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Orkney Folk Festival: wild thyme in Stromness
Simon Broughton heads to the Orkney Folk Festival for its breathtaking and inspiring finale
