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The 28th Rainforest World Music Festival
The Rainforest Festival continues to deliver a very well-run and highly enjoyable event in a mesmerisingly beautiful place
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Laura Cannell: “I take my instruments and I drive off to a church and, if it’s empty, I just sneak in and play”
Olivia Cheves speaks to composer and musician Laura Cannell about her compulsion to make music, why she had to find her own traditions and why she’d love to record an album in an aircraft hangar
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WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Three, October 23
Alexandra Petropoulos tunes in for the Friday Digital Showcases of WOMEX 2020 and picks her highlights, from warm maloya to jazz kaval
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FolkEast Festival 2025: innovation, tradition and midsummer magic in perfect harmony
Julian May heads to a pop-up village of midsummer rituals, famous guitars and sighing oaks
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Sally Potter's My World interview: “I’ve always thought of music as an equal partner to what we are seeing visually [in films]”
Jane Cornwell discusses tango, travelling through music and climate activism with the English filmmaker who has lately turned singer-songwriter
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Festival reviews - Tlalli & ¡Globalquerque!
Catalina Maria Johnson visits festivals in the US and Canada bringing global and ancestral music to a new audience
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Festival Review: FolkEast (Suffolk, UK, August 15–17)
Julian May heads to a pop-up village of midsummer rituals, famous guitars and sighing oaks
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Songlines Music Awards Ceremony – get your tickets now!
Tickets are on-sale and selling fast – don't miss out on some of the best international music, all in one place, for one night only!
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Making music with the Kogi: “Singing is a way for them to connect with the animals… a way to live peacefully among them without fear”
French producer Lion’s Drums talks to Russ Slater about recording the Kogi people of northern Colombia whose singing practices form an integral component of their profound relationship with nature
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Singing with Nightingales – Live at Home
A special online broadcast featuring nightingale song, poetry and storytelling has been announced to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
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Watch: Songlines Music Awards 2019 – The Highlights
The event saw live music from Cyprus, Wales, Senegal, Turkey, Mali and Portugal
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Hurray for the Riff Raff to commence summer tour with UK dates in August
New Orleans-based Hurray for the Riff Raff will begin UK tour with a sold-out show at Omeara in London
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PICS: The Songlines Music Awards ceremony 2019 went with a bang!
A first look at some of the exciting goings-on that hit the stage at the awards ceremony on November 30.
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Maya Youssef, the Syrian qanun player on the search for her spiritual home
Maya Youssef’s second album is a stunning meditation on the essence of home. The Syrian qanun player speaks to Alexandra Petropoulos about how the music helped her find her own spiritual home
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“Our island knows the ocean is not the same as before” | The Return of Small Island Big Song
Jane Cornwell speaks with Tim Cole and BaoBao Chen, the producers of the Indo-Pacific collective Small Island Big Song, about their second project, which focuses on our troublesome relationship with nature. Illustrations: Jenn Da Costa
