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Speaker's Corner: MacDara Yeates on Joe Mulheron

Macdara Yeates pays tribute to one of Belfast’s most beloved singers, songwriters and cultural agitators, known for his generosity as much as his radical politics

Introducing the October 2024 issue of Songlines, featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Taking a look at the unprecedented global popularity of Pakistan’s qawwali star Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Varo: “We needed to do something and feel good about it… And have a purpose”

Emma Rycroft talks to the Dublin duo about a project that saw them work with some of the city’s finest musicians to alleviate the pain of lockdown

Korean singer Jaram Lee on reinterpreting Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

Jaram Lee dives deep into the story of The Old Man and the Sea for a unique pansori retelling. Christopher Conder reports

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: “He remains an enigma, to this day…what was that magic?”

Jameela Siddiqi plots the unprecedented international success of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistan’s ‘King of Kings of Qawwali’ and, for many, one of the greatest singers of all time

“These trying times in which we now live demand combative women willing to risk it all to give us our freedom” | Susana Baca interview

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