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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

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

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

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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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 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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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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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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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.

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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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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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Albums of the Year 2024: Songlines Recommends...

Looking back over the past 12 months at the albums that have made the biggest impression

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce's My World Interview

Russ Slater Johnson speaks to the screenwriter and author about Irish jigs, anti-recruiting songs and how a scouser gave Manchester a city motto

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Oslo World 2023

Martin Longley witnessed Mari Boine, Bixiga 70, Gaye Su Akyol and Les Mamans de Congo at the 30th anniversary of this exceptional city-spanning festival…