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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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Scotland Unwrapped at Kings Place

Karine Polwart, Aidan O’Rourke and Jasdeep Singh Degun join the bill for a year-long celebration of Scottish music and spoken-word

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Spotlight on Merlyn Driver: “The main thing I want from my music is for people to feel calm”

Olivia Cheves hears how the Orkney-born artist takes a backseat on his new album, giving prominence to nature’s voices

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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

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Gatherings: Dave Brewis’s deeply rooted portrait of Britain’s living folk traditions

Sophie Parkes talks with filmmaker Dave Brewis about Gatherings, his new documentary series exploring Britain’s remarkable folk rituals

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Listen to ‘Lady of the Lake’, the first single from Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman’s upcoming EP

Banjo wunderkind Nora Brown unveils her new EP, in collaboration with Stephanie Coleman

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Lido Pimienta rewrites the score, turning orchestral tradition on its head

For her latest project, Colombian singer Lido Pimienta wanted to shake off the shackles of categorisation and do what nobody expected her to do

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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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Peterloo remembered: Sean Cooney’s haunting folk chronicle of resistance and remembrance

A new play about the Peterloo massacre took centre stage at Manchester Folk Festival

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Fireside Stories: how a Harlesden record shop helped create a reggae classic

Cleon Roberts remembers the story of a soulful reggae hit that went head-to-head with Madonna in the charts

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Ganavya: Daughter of a Temple (Barbican Centre, London, September 4)

Ganavya’s headline Barbican show blended spiritual depth, surprising textures and personal tributes, though its rotating cast of guests sometimes disrupted the flow

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WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Four, October 24

Simon Broughton checks into the last day of digital performances and enjoys the concerts of Hungarian bands with a real audience that took place in Budapest.