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Quickfire: Nora Brown
Talking all-time favourite albums and inspirational artists with the banjo prodigy from Brooklyn championing the sounds of old-time Appalachia
Talking all-time favourite albums and inspirational artists with the banjo prodigy from Brooklyn championing the sounds of old-time Appalachia
Superb female vocalists and ceilidh-style dancing were the highlights of Saturday's WOMAD line-up
Prescribing some dance floor therapy with the Kenyan-born, Berlin-based ‘musical witchdoctor’
Discover the city's welcome pockets of artistic resistance defiantly championing African-Brazilian and Indigenous culture
Music from Indonesia, South Sudan, Mali, Ukraine and Occitania lights up the festival
Ireland’s traditional music has some innate and elusive quality whose appeal has spread far beyond its shores
Despite the predicted dire weather conditions that thankfully never fully materialised, the final day at WOMAD was blessed with a rainbow and plenty of musical colour
Once the wunderkind of the English folk scene, Jim Moray’s sound has matured and coalesced over his career. Tim Cumming dives into his catalogue
Nigel Williamson looks back at the enduring global popularity of the Irish musical ambassadors
Ireland’s traditional music has some innate and elusive quality whose appeal has spread far beyond its shores
The musician Rowan Rheingans has a new solo project and album that are part-memoir, part-theatre. She talks to Julian May about the many influences that shaped these works
The Irish supergroup have long been the benchmark for traditional music. Michael Quinn examines their impressive catalogue and achievements to date
Three world music festival directors dive deep into sounds from Switzerland’s global and folk artists and tell Songlines who, given the chance, they would programme and why
Australia’s hardline treatment of refugees is under fire as high-profile artists join the campaign in support of two detained Kurdish musicians: Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitabar. Jane Cornwell reports
The Korean musical identity can be traced to the fifth century, and has been well documented since the fifteenth century, as Rob Provine and Keith Howard reveal
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