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Spell Songs show for broadcast
Folk by the Oak festival team announce exclusive online performance by the nature-loving folk collective
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Mdou Moctar: Niger's desert rock resistance
Mdou Moctar has had a great year, with a new album and worldwide tour positioning him as a new breed of African guitar hero… but he’s not alone. Bombino and Etran de l’Aïr are two other electric guitar-heavy bands who are establishing Niger as the capital of ‘desert rock’
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Introducing... Santrofi
The new band from Ghana are injecting a fresh energy into the country’s traditional highlife style. Jo Frost speaks to them
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Maxine Peake's My World: "You can see why people look for other things, and music gives us answers"
The English actor chats about her musical side projects, her love of folk horror and the mysteries that only music can answer
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Jacken Elswyth: The Banjo Maker
Builder and player of banjos, Jacken Elswyth, tells Spencer Grady how her intimate relationship with the instrument has changed her approach
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Spell Songs conjure natural charms for live-streamed fundraiser
Authors Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris joined the Spell Songs ensemble for a magical, memorable charity performance
