Thursday, May 13, 2021
Announcing the winners of the Songlines Music Awards 2021!
My lords, ladies and gents, please be upstanding for the winners in this year's Songlines Music Awards…
News
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Spell Songs conjure natural charms for live-streamed fundraiser
Authors Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris joined the Spell Songs ensemble for a magical, memorable charity performance
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Obituary: Rajan Mishra (1951-2021)
Acclaimed vocalist Rajan Mishra dies, age 70, due to COVID-related complications
Friday, April 23, 2021
Soumik Datta trails Silent Spaces project
Hijacking the hush pervading our iconic British cultural institutions, sarod specialist and composer Soumik Datta has assembled a 40-strong cast of dancers and musicians to reclaim iconic British cultural institutions embattled by COVID-19
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Getting back to gigs: the music industry needs you!
Music fans’ views sought to help the UK's live music industry plan for the safe return of gigs
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Video premiere: Sunny Jain hails everyday 'Heroes'
The Red Baraat founder heralds those extraordinary everyday champions fighting for a better world
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Songlines Music Awards 2021 nominations announced
The nominees for this year’s Songlines Music Awards have been revealed. Did your favourite artist make the cut? Catch up with the contenders vying in each of the seven categories
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Songlines May 2021 issue is out now!
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi on notions of home; Songlines Music Awards 2021 nominees revealed; interviews with Peggy Seeger and Piers Faccini; a Beginner's Guide to Argentinian accordionist Chango Spasiuk, and more inside
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Highlife deconstructed
Kirsty Osei-Bempong looks at the work of the Highlife Music Deconstructed Series, a new platform seeking to preserve and promote this iconic Ghanaian sound
Monday, March 22, 2021
Thai Country Living
Watch Dan and Ben Tubby's magical short film about Isan instrument-maker and farmer Suman 'Chang Bour' Tapkham
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Festivals Collective Launches CULTURAS 360°
A new initiative sees nine top music festivals team together for an annual online project hosting a series of showcases from artists around the world
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Songlines April 2021 issue is out now!
A celebration of tango maestro Astor Piazzolla; Indonesia's Senyawa talk radical abstraction and homemade instrumentation; mbira missionary Stella Chiweshe's Shona spirituality; a Beginner's Guide to Irish troupe Kíla and more in the latest issue
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Sissoko's inter-generational kora connection
Malian master of kora collaboration, Ballaké Sissoko, premieres a new video for the title-track from his forthcoming long-player, Djourou
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Songlines #165 (March 2021) is out now!
A Beginner's Guide to Ballaké Sissoko; Pakistan's vocal master Ustad Saami dials up devotion through a dying art; the music industry's response to COVID-19; Electric Jalaba's homage to Gnawa music and more in the latest issue of Songlines
Friday, January 22, 2021
Township troubadours Urban Village drop new video
Genre-defying South African quartet announce new video for 'Dindi', a cut lifted from their new album on Nø Førmat!
