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Important news regarding the Songlines CD

We are making a change to our covermount CD that will affect those who buy Songlines from a retailer. Please read on to find out our plans, and why we are making this change

“I'm rebelling against what the music industry and social media was telling me to do” | Natalie Wildgoose interview

Utilising a panoply of pianos across the Yorkshire Dales and her grandfather’s reel-to-reel recorder, the lo-fi folk artist invites us to Come Into The Garden

Companions in Crisis

Russ Slater Johnson introduces the February/March 2025 issue

Glatt & Verkehrt: from Hungarian folk to Afghan resistance songs, a festival of voices without borders

Simon Broughton selects highlights from Austria’s most vital world music festival

Postcard From Northern Labrador: Sacred Throat-Singing & Polar Bear Spotting

Songlines ventured north to the Labrador Peninsula, Canada, home to the Inuit and a very particular singing style called katajjaq

Eliza Carthy's News of the Whirl: Wassailing We Will Go

‘A Wassail, a Wassail, a Wassail we’ll begin, with sugar strands and cinnamon, and other treasures in…’ In her latest column for Songlines, Eliza is preparing for winter...

The Sharon Shannon Trio at Cottingham Civic Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, Feb 10, 2023

Irish accordionist teams up with acoustic strings duo to put the squeeze on gamut of folk styles

Beats, Rhymes and Banjos

Gangstagrass are unifying bluegrass and hip-hop through their shared tales of struggle and survival, and having a great time along the way

Stick in the Wheel: “There’s a long history of protest and we are part of that”

Tim Cumming talks to East London’s Stick in the Wheel about the rich loaming of folkloric and historical sources that feeds into their distinctive take on ‘the music of the people’

Les Amazones d’Afrique: Taking the Crown

Feminist supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique mark a decade of existence this year, with a new release to celebrate. Jane Cornwell talks politics, power and positivity with the current line-up. “Women are suffocating. We want them to breathe,” they tell her.