Thursday, February 27, 2025
Setting the Scene: Ale Hop
Fresh from a scintillating collaboration with Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta, Peruvian musician and producer Ale Hop discusses her adopted home of Berlin
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Friday, February 21, 2025
Quickfire: Gipsy Kings' André Reyes
André Reyes, a member of the Gipsy Kings since the late 70s, answers our Quickfire questions ahead of a big London show for the group
Friday, February 21, 2025
Folk Round-up (David Mitchell, The Ocelots & more)
Essential folk releases from the England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales featuring Alannah Thornburgh, David Mitchell, Three Idle Women, The Ocelots and more
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Welcome to Africa’s largest music festival – Nyege Nyege
At the heart of Uganda’s vibrant, innovative and optimistic music scene, ‘Africa’s largest music festival’ Nyege Nyege continues to surprise and delight
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Q&A: Patrick Bebey
Cameroonian musician with a penchant for groovy Afro-jazz
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Festival report: Morocco’s Zamane Festival
Zamane Festival in Morocco’s Draa valley features a weekend of dromedaries, discussion and sizzling desert rock
Friday, February 7, 2025
Jakarta Jakarta! (To the Moon & Back #1)
Each month, the nomadic film-maker Vincent Moon enlightens his prodigious archives with a special film selection and accompanying vignette. This first instalment of To the Moon & Back takes us to Jakarta, Indonesia.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Introducing... Emily Wurramara
On her latest album the rising Anindilyakwa star channels trauma, ancestral knowledge and togetherness. “It’s a community-driven record”, she declares
Thursday, January 30, 2025
The 4 Corners and Centre of Julie Fowlis’ Universe
The Scottish singer picks the albums that have stayed with her through pivotal moments of her life. “I keep coming back to ones that have a Gaelic heartbeat to them”, she confesses
Thursday, January 30, 2025
A Conversation with Sam Lee: “I want every album to be filled with forests, and I want every forest to be filled with music”
Russ Slater Johnson speaks to the English singer and climate activist about campfire singalongs, collecting folk songs in unexpected places and how nature is at the heart of everything he does
Thursday, January 30, 2025
What Can Musicians and Music Lovers Do During a Climate Crisis?
With the earth passing 1.5 degrees celsius of heating in 2024, and recent natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, we asked artists and researchers how to play and enjoy music while respecting and helping the planet
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Melike Şahin: “Surviving as a musician in Turkey is hard both in economic and political terms”
With the release of her second album, Turkish pop innovator Melike Şahin continues on her singular path to success. She speaks to Nikolas-Kaan Yilmaz about how she found mainstream acclaim on her own terms
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Levellers: A Beginner's Guide
For over 30 years, the anarcho-folk collective have succeeded by doing things their own way. Chris Wheatley finds out about their grassroots rise to fandom and their enduring popularity
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Songhoy Blues: “[We] like to make people dance… but our social concerns are the reason for the music”
From their discovery in Bamako by Damon Albarn’s Africa Express in 2013 to the global release of their latest stripped-back album in 2025, Robin Denselow traces Songhoy Blues’ journey through exile, resistance and optimism
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Colombia’s Petronio Alvarez Festival: setting things right with the culture
Twenty-seven years after the launch of Colombia’s Petronio Alvarez Festival, Timothy Pratt returns to find out how “the largest African diaspora cultural event in Latin America” is staying true to its roots – and how it’s changed. Photos by Jesse Pratt López
