It’s our 200th issue and it’s packed: Leyla McCalla, Peter Gabriel, Kronos Quartet, Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper, Malta, Joe Boyd, The Cavemen, Rapa Nui, Billy Bragg…
Renowned archival label announce reparative multi-record retrieval campaign dedicated to trailblazing Nigerian twins
Liverpool will come alive with all things Latin America at this year's La Feria festival in September
Heading to WOMAD this year? The Malmesbury-set festival is back again on July 25-28 and there are plenty of artists in the line-up that we've featured in Songlines previously, as well as many that we really should.
Organisers have unveiled the complete line-up for three of their stages at this year’s WOMEX in Manchester
The 11th edition of the celebrated Korean Music Festival brings some of the country’s most vital artists to the capital this autumn
Gnawa artist Asmâa Hamzaoui will take to the stage for a rescheduled date of the Songlines Encounters Festival 2024
Up-and-coming French-Congolese artist takes home prestigious European prize
Myth-steeped US folk duo herald forthcoming full-length with symbolic representations of fable, allegory and spiritual-cipher semiotics
The legendary group who paved the way for Peruvian cumbia in the 1960s have set off on their month long tour of the UK this week
A collection of recordings, dating back to 1990, by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan are to be released in September as 'Chain of Light'
The bandleader and primary vocalist of Burkina Faso's Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band has passed away aged 51
Listen to the Yemeni roots crew’s latest single, a hypnotic flip on an old traditional wedding tune, taken from the band’s forthcoming album
An Africa Special starring Salif Keita, The Zawose Queens, The Joy and Franck Biyong, plus a Banjo Summit with Rhiannon Giddens and Belá Fleck
Mighty Afro-fusionist Kweku of Ghana shares ‘Odo Sronko’ featuring highlife icon Pat Thomas, the latest single taken from his forthcoming album, Don’t Take My Soul
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