Saturday, July 27, 2019
Review: WOMAD 2019 – Day 2
No visa problems this year
Indian and Cuban brass – the leading factors in the opening night of ‘the world’s festival’
Jim Hickson visited the seventh edition of The Spirit of Tengri festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan to discover the wonderful - and the weird - of 'contemporary ethnic music.'
Simon Broughton gives the low-down of all nine concerts from the recent Songlines Encounters Festival at Kings Place in London, May 30-June 2
The Barbican witnessed an exciting meeting of contemporary jazz heavyweights with a North African touch as part of the Songlines 20th anniversary concert series.
Ethio-Jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke played a retrospective set from his golden era on the opening night of the Brussels Jazz Festival
The 34th edition of the Belgrade Jazz Festival featured Chucho Valdés, Miklós Lukács and Irina Karamarkovic
Angélique Kidjo and Ibrahim Maalouf perform a special show with the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra for C’est pas Classique festival in Nice
Union Chapel hosts the London African Gospel Choir as they perform Paul Simon's classic album
Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu perform at the Global Beats festival at Pizza Express Live, Holborn.
Brazilian guitar and piano legend Egberto Gismonti drew encores from the crowd at the ornate Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Germany.
Novia Scotia celebrates its Scottish roots at this years' edition of the Celtic Folk festival, emphasising the musical connections between old and new country alike.
Martin Longley reports from a long weekender in Brussels with tabla legend Zakir Hussain, pan-African supergroup Les Amazones d'Afrique and frenetic Ugandan DJ Kamire.
Wilderness Festival provided a surprising array of arts and music to please even the most discerning of world music lovers.
The Montréal First Peoples Festival once again celebrated the culture and heritage of the indigenous people of Canada and beyond.
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