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Fela Kuti
The Nigerian superstar helped invent Afrobeat, which has gone on to become one of the most popular styles of world music
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Blick Bassy: “This generation must defy imported culture and design their own role models and paths”
Daniel Brown speaks to Cameroonian musician and writer Blick Bassy about breaking the silence on France’s colonialist treatment towards his country’s independence heroes
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Digital folk at Hungarian Heritage House
The Hungarian Heritage House is pioneering the use of digital tools to aid learning traditional arts. Simon Broughton takes notes [Advertorial]
The Rough Guide to World Music
The Rough Guide to World Music: Portugal
Portugal is best known as the home of fado, the passionate and elegant music of Lisbon and Coimbra
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Obituary: Péter Éri (1953 – 2023)
A member of the hugely influential four-piece Hungarian folk band Muzsikás, Peter Éri has died from lung cancer aged 70.
Features
Introducing Amir Amiri
Simon Broughton profiles an Iranian santur player who has faced trauma but now focuses on paying respect to his ancestors and raising the profile of his instrument
Live reviews
Times New Román at Budapest Ritmo, April 7
New Hungarian five-piece wow Simon Broughton at Budapest Ritmo
Features
Seabird, Fly Home: Garefowl Take Flight to St Kilda
Russ Slater Johnson hears from Garefowl’s Ewan Macdonald about his connections to the last British seabird made extinct and why he will soon be recording on the Scottish isle where the bird was killed
Features
Folk Round-Up (Astrid Williamson, Eve Goodman, and Thorpe & Morrison)
A selection of essential folk releases from England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales including new albums from Astrid Williamson, Eve Goodman, and Thorpe & Morrison.
Features
Soapbox: Swimming Against The Stream
Does more mean less in the digital music market place?
Features
Roots Round-Up (Nuxalk Radio, Beau Cheval, Laurie Lewis and more)
A selection of essential releases from the US and Canada including new albums from Nuxalk Radio, Beau Cheval, Laurie Lewis, Jontavious Willis and La Pastourelle
Features
The Rough Guide to World Music: Portugal
Portugal is best known as the home of fado, the passionate and elegant music of Lisbon and Coimbra
Features
“I met a Hardanger fiddler who said if you give me your fiddle, I'll give you my farm” | Gro Marie Svidal
Heiress to a piece of Norwegian musical history, Gro Marie Svidal talks about the allure of her unique Hardanger inheritance
Features
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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Suka | Musical Instrument Guide (with Maria Pomianowska)
Doyenne of the Polish knee-fiddle, Maria Pomianowska, speaks to Simon Broughton about evolving her instrument's repertoire
