For five decades Susana Baca has been performing plangent protest songs in the name of South America’s marginalised peoples, the poor and the planet. On the eve of the release of her latest album, Palabras Urgentes, the Afro-Peruvian diva talks to Chris Moss
Talking all-time favourite albums and inspirational artists with the banjo prodigy from Brooklyn championing the sounds of old-time Appalachia
Critically-acclaimed UK folk quartet take new lunar-loving album out on tour this winter
Emma Rycroft speaks to one of Ireland’s most influential folk singers, Christy Moore, about protest songs, family and why he still loves performing
Dance music veterans and debut WOMAD performances on the final day of the festival
Brothers John and Charlie Tian Yi Wardle preview album collaboration with father and bass supremo Jah Wobble
The musician, poet and visual artist Neil Sparkes – of Transglobal Underground and Temple of Sound – has died aged 58. Jane Cornwell pays tribute
Alan Woods takes a look at the legendary Irish singer’s music and the London pub in which she gained much of her reputation
Music from Indonesia, South Sudan, Mali, Ukraine and Occitania lights up the festival
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
Prescribing some dance floor therapy with the Kenyan-born, Berlin-based ‘musical witchdoctor’
Essential folk releases from the England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales featuring Alannah Thornburgh, David Mitchell, Three Idle Women, The Ocelots and more
Superb female vocalists and ceilidh-style dancing were the highlights of Saturday's WOMAD line-up
Ireland’s traditional music has some innate and elusive quality whose appeal has spread far beyond its shores
Billy Rough listens to new folk releases from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
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