Dispelling the cowboy myth with Colombia's Cimarrón; Songlines Music Awards winners announced; on the fly with Wassoulou songbird, Oumou Sangaré; Beginner's Guide to Antibalas; our UK Fest Guide returns, plus free Top of the World CD with every copy
Free-styling interview with Cuban sensation, Cimafunk; four decades of WOMAD; adventures inside Poland's dark folk fraternity; 60 years of Jamaican musical innovation; Beginner's Guide to Anoushka Shankar, plus free Top of the World CD with each issue
Angélique Kidjo on the music that motivates her; interviews with Polish string band VOLOSI, Colombian duo Bomba Estéreo and Haiti's Lakou Mizik; a Beginner's Guide to Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Keita, plus more inside
London’s premier Latin music festival is back with an exciting array of rare and unique performances
Kurdish singer talks about living in exile and her former life in Turkey, we share our favourite festival memories in support of live music, a Beginner's Guide to Rajery and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
Albums of the year revealed; singer Liraz on her Iranian roots; the young lions leading Afrobeats' infiltration of the mainstream; a Beginner's Guide to French troubadours Lo’Jo and more in the latest issue of Songlines
Baloji, Ana Tijoux, Asmâa Hamzaoui, a look back at Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko’s epochal New Ancient Strings album, Los Tigres del Norte, Fruko, unrest in Buenos Aires and our preview of albums to get excited about in 2024
Taiko drumming, joik singing, Pilgrim Father voyaging and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
Tony Gillam spoke with Frigg’s Esko Järvelä and Petri Prauda before the septet’s belated 20th-anniversary tour and finds the irrepressible Nordgrass veterans in buoyant mood
Anoushka Shankar, Bebel Gilberto, rare Bulgarian recordings, a Guide to Tuvan and Mongolian throat singing, our annual International World Music Festival Guide and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
Ashanti Omkar catches up with the prolific film composer AR Rahman about his recent projects, the all-female Firdaus Orchestra and a new platform giving a boost to independent South Asian artists
The music industry’s response to the climate crisis, Colombian harp stars, a look back over 2019 and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
The Welsh trio VRï are injecting new life into traditional songs, mining the country’s past for the stories of everyday people
On June 30, the charity Arts Against Slavery will launch a CD of music written by young asylum-seekers based in Sicily.
Punk-rock brothers Mongo and Kacho Gama explain how they became the unlikely ambassadors of Mexico’s marimba scene
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