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Moya Brennan (1952–2026)
The singer and harpist, whose ethereal voice led Clannad from a Donegal family pub to Grammy-winning global stardom, has died aged 73
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Listen: Warsaw Village Band - 'What Have You Been Doing Kasia (El Búho remix)'
Get an exclusive first listen to tropical beat-maker El Búho's latest remix, taken from his forthcoming album Tributaries
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Afro Celt Sound System Pay Tribute To Simon Emmerson With New Album
Trailblazing world music troupe announce details of their long-awaited label debut for Six Degrees Records, a final testament to late founding member’s pioneering vision
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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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Dispatch: Mardi Gras in Louisiana
Russell Higham visits Louisiana, home of the world-famous Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and Lafayette, where he finds a state proudly and positively celebrating its musical connections to the wider world
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Broadcasts From The Broadside
Contemporary trad-music conservators Broadside Hacks announce the activation of a Patreon platform loaded with archive footage culled from their Folk Club events
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Folk Round-Up: Nordic fire, Irish Americana and English folk song
Featuring Wyn Oran, Innocent Hare, Tern, Hartwin and Lorraine Nash
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WOMEX 2024 Playlist
WOMEX 2024 is just around the corner! With organisations and artists descending onto Manchester from all over the world, it's shaping up to be an unmissable event, and we have a great primer to discover some of the artists on offer.
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Best Albums 2020: Africa
All of these albums received a maximum of five stars when reviewed in the 2020 issues of Songlines. Looking for your next favourite album? This is the perfect place to start.
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WOMEX 24 Unveils More artists for October event in Manchester
Organisers have unveiled the complete line-up for three of their stages at this year’s WOMEX in Manchester
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Quickfire: Daniel Bachman
Finger-picking guitarist, audio collagist and folk scholar talks Amish hoedowns, Mortal Kombat and some mind-blowing albums
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Introducing the November 2023 issue of Songlines, featuring Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo, Irakere, The Mary Wallopers, Anoushka Shankar, Dengue Fever, Chief Adjuah, Bebel Gilberto gives a Beginner’s Guide to João Gilberto, plus dispatches from Hawaii, Australia and Iran
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Yiddishkeit Futures
The klezmer revival began in the US half a century ago. Musicians from marginalised communities delved deeper into klezmer’s European roots while adopting contemporary, open-minded approaches to play the music. Celeste Cantor-Stephens speaks to three musicians whose work carries on traditions of ‘klezmer’ in different ways, asking if the klezmer revival is experiencing a new wave, or whether that initial revival ever really stopped
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Selda Bağcan: A Beginner's Guide
The trailblazing Turkish singer-songwriter and activist remains an icon of the 70s Anatolian psych scene. Daniel Spicer recounts a career full of revolutionary spirit and stirring protest songs
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Zakir Hussain & Les Amazones d’Afrique: Live In Brussels
Martin Longley reports from a long weekender in Brussels with tabla legend Zakir Hussain, pan-African supergroup Les Amazones d'Afrique and frenetic Ugandan DJ Kamire.
