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Artists announced for the Songlines Music Awards 2019 Ceremony at EartH

The first artists confirmed for this year's Songlines Music Awards Ceremony have been revealed...

PICS: The Songlines Music Awards ceremony 2019 went with a bang!

A first look at some of the exciting goings-on that hit the stage at the awards ceremony on November 30.

The Rough Guide to World Music

The Rough Guide to World Music: Indian Classical Music

To enjoy a concert of Indian classical music, it helps a lot to have knowledge of the basic rules. Here, Robert Maycock and Ken Hunt introduce a rich musical tradition

Bixiga 70 announce new album ‘Vapor’ and UK concerts

Brazilian ten-piece to release new album in October, ahead of UK gigs

Lake of Stars, Nkhotakota, Malawi, September 6-8

The 20th-anniversary edition of Lake of Stars shows how much Malawi's music scene has grown

“How am I going to be a legend?”: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at 50

Rossella Pinto, one of the original members of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, and her son Mauro Durante, their current bandleader, reflect on the group’s 50-year history of preserving and promoting the popular pizzica music of southern Italy

Live reviews

The London African Gospel Choir Perform Paul Simon's Graceland: review

Union Chapel hosts the London African Gospel Choir as they perform Paul Simon's classic album

News

SONGLINES BEST ALBUMS OF 2018

The editors' pick of the best albums of 2018

Features

The return of Afro Celt Sound System

The global groove and harmony evangelists return with their first album since the death of founder Simon Emmerson. Jane Cornwell chats to original members, and now bandleaders, Johnny Kalsi and N’Faly Kouyaté

Features

The Rough Guide to World Music: Indian Classical Music

To enjoy a concert of Indian classical music, it helps a lot to have knowledge of the basic rules. Here, Robert Maycock and Ken Hunt introduce a rich musical tradition

Features

Levellers: A Beginner's Guide

For over 30 years, the anarcho-folk collective have succeeded by doing things their own way. Chris Wheatley finds out about their grassroots rise to fandom and their enduring popularity

News

Singing with Nightingales – Live at Home

A special online broadcast featuring nightingale song, poetry and storytelling has been announced to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day

News

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Founder Joseph Shabalala Dies

One of the great world ambassadors of Zulu music, Joseph Shabalala, died on February 11, aged 78

Features

Celebrating 60 years of Les Cousins, the folk club that shaped a generation

Tim Cumming talks to Jon Wilks about his Second Cousins stage at FolkEast, and the impact and influence of the legendary Les Cousins folk club on succeeding generations