Silvana Estrada, Buena Vista Social Club, Jorge Drexler, SONICO x Rovira, Essential 10 Highlife Releases, Charif Megarbane, Yiddish Glory, Constantinople, Cocanha and more
Suffolk fest reaffirms its commitment to tradition and musical innovation with eye-catching roll call of star names and emerging talents
A new music festival is coming to East London this summer aiming to offer an alternative to the fast pace of modern life with an all-seated, slow movement-inspired event in Central Park.
Iconic Irish folk singer, known for her "sacred voice"
Northern Irish singer-songwriter’s latest album deemed pick of the bunch, as he takes home first-ever Folk Album of the Year award
The Late Spring Folk Festival has announced its 2026 lineup, with Olivia Chaney – fresh from Wuthering Heights fame – set to headline the one-day event on Saturday, May 23 at Dummer Down Farm in Hampshire
Announcing Hajda Banda's Niepraudzivaya as the winner of the Songlines Readers' Album of the Year 2025
Tinariwen, Altın Gun, LA NIÑA, Hornbill Festival, Daughters of Donbas, Olodum, Simon Armitage, Cymande, Souad Massi, Eric Bibb and Ones to Watch 2026
WOMAD have announced the first artists for the inaugural year at their new Wiltshire home, Neston Park. Oumou Sangaré, Barrington Levy, Greentea Peng and José González lead a line-up that is typically diverse and all-encompassing
Ghanaian guitarist and bandleader who fused traditional highlife with funk and Afrobeat in the 1970s, then found global recognition decades later and continued to be a tour de force
Bangkok’s pioneering club is to close its doors after more than 12 years
Steve Martin & Alison Brown’s bluegrass friendship, Yasmine Hamdan returns, Imarhan’s desert soul, Slow J on fado, calypso great Mighty Sparrow, Bebel Gilberto and AI in Music
Folk forefather Martin Carthy has cancelled a proposed tour and festival dates in 2026 due to a diagnosis of late-onset Alzheimer's disease
Sophie Parkes uncovers England’s seasonal beliefs relating to “the unexplained and unexpected”, as she reports on the initial findings of the first-ever National Folklore Survey
A new Artist Mentoring Programme will connect emerging world music artists with experienced industry professionals for intensive, personalised career development spanning up to ten months
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