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The Folk on Foot Festival returns for a third edition

The award-winning team behind the Folk on Foot podcast are back with the third edition of their hugely popular Front Room Festival.

Obituary: Paul Sartin (1971-2022)

The much-loved folk multi-instrumentalist, singer and founding member of Faustus, Bellowhead and Belshazzar’s Feast has died, aged 51

Roots Round-Up (Marcella Simien, Rosier, Eliza Thorn and more)

Essential Roots releases from the US and Canada, featuring Morgan Harris, Locarno and Tamar Ilana

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

Super Roopa

One of the UK’s finest sitarists, Roopa Panesar, joins forces with pianist Al MacSween for a special pair of raga weekends

Folk Archives: Tabla Tarang

The tabla tarang is a set of between 10 and 16 tablas with each tabla tuned to a different note

Lucas Santtana, Guts, Kimi Djabaté, Discos Pacífico, Shehan Karunatilaka, sevdah, Majid Bekkas, Jerusalem Orchestra East & West, Sam Lee at CO27 and much, much more; plus free Top of the World CD with the issue

Features

Profile: Moana & The Tribe

“Music connects people to each other”

Playlists

Playlist: Women of Hip-Hop

Spanning from Senegal to Guatemala, Libya to London, this global roster of female MCs continues in the footsteps of legends like MC Lyte and Lauryn Hill, helping to redefine women’s role in hip-hop.

Features

LEAF Festival

Amid the Blue Ridge Mountains, the latest edition of North Carolina's biannual gathering prepares to bring together diverse musical artists from across the globe

News

Blick Bassy trails new album with urgent aqua vitae eco-warning

Soulful singer-songwriter paints in watercolours for an eco-conscious follow-up to his award-winning 1958

News

Scotland Unwrapped at Kings Place

Karine Polwart, Aidan O’Rourke and Jasdeep Singh Degun join the bill for a year-long celebration of Scottish music and spoken-word

News

Obituary: Simon Emmerson (1956-2023)

The Afro Celt Sound System founder, initiator of The Imagined Village, record producer, composer, guitarist and birdsong enthusiast has passed away

Live reviews

Heemoon Lee & OBANGSINGWA, London, November 23

After blowing away audiences in 2018, Heemoon Lee returned to London with a new group, OBANGSINGWA, to perform a stunning end to this year's K-Music Festival.