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Quickfire: Clare Sands
Boosting Dylan and talking world medal martial arts with the Irish singer and fiddle-player channelling the music of her ancestors
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Beginner's Guide: Carnatic Music with L Shankar
A living legend outlines how Carnatic music has evolved and speaks of the challenges it faces in the modern age. Chris Wheatley reports
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The Rise and Resistance of Cambodian Hip-Hop
Alex Robinson visits Cambodia, where a new generation are using hip-hop as a force for social change despite repression that carries dark echoes of the country’s past
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Obituary: Djivan Gasparyan (1928-2021)
Legendary Armenian duduk doyen and composer Djivan Gasparyan has died, aged 92
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The August/September 2024 issue of Songlines is out now!
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…
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Songlines World Pioneer & Newcomer Winners Announced
Congratulations to Youssou N’Dour and Balimaya Project, who have just been announced as this year’s World Pioneer and Newcomer winners at our 2022 Songlines Music Awards live show, hosted at London’s Scala
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Eliza Carthy: What constitutes folk music in 2025?
As a new year begins, Eliza Carthy uses the ‘official’ folk chart as a barometer of what currently constitutes folk music
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Songlines Music Awards 2022: The Live Show (Highlights Video)
Check out the highlights from this year's Songlines Music Awards ceremony, hosted by Cerys Matthews and featuring live performances from Balimaya Project, Justin Adams & Mauro Durante, Ballaké Sissoko and Fanfare Ciocărlia
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“We wanted to shake things up, break some walls with traditional music” | Mélisande [électrotrad]
Meet the Québécois group’s core duo artfully blending French-Canadian trad and club-friendly electronics
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Anoushka Shankar: Beginner's Guide
Nigel Williamson charts the career of the genre-defying sitarist, from her Indian classical beginnings to her star-studded cross-cultural fusions
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Dispatch from São Paulo
Discover the city's welcome pockets of artistic resistance defiantly championing African-Brazilian and Indigenous culture
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Quickfire: Ana Carla Maza
We ask the Havana-born cellist, vocalist and composer about the albums she loves, the musicians she admires and her favourite new artists
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Selda Bağcan: A Beginner's Guide
The trailblazing Turkish singer-songwriter and activist remains an icon of the 70s Anatolian psych scene. Daniel Spicer recounts a career full of revolutionary spirit and stirring protest songs
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WOMAD announces new home for 2026 return
Neston Park in Corsham, Wiltshire will be the home of WOMAD for their next festival, taking place on 23–26 July 2026
