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Getting back to gigs: the music industry needs you!
Music fans’ views sought to help the UK's live music industry plan for the safe return of gigs
Music fans’ views sought to help the UK's live music industry plan for the safe return of gigs
Nigel Williamson on the life of the colossus of South African music who died on Februrary 23
Moonlight Benjamin, the Songlines Music Awards 2020 nominees, Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela, London Bulgarian Choir, Juan Martín and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
A celebration of tango maestro Astor Piazzolla; Indonesia's Senyawa talk radical abstraction and homemade instrumentation; mbira missionary Stella Chiweshe's Shona spirituality; a Beginner's Guide to Irish troupe Kíla and more in the latest issue
The award-winning team behind the Folk on Foot podcast are back with the third edition of their hugely popular Front Room Festival.
Simon Broughton chats immigration, inhibitions and the power of music with one of Britain’s foremost authorities on empire
Known as the 'father of South African jazz,' horn player Hugh Masekela was one of South Africa's finest musicians who used his music to protest against the apartheid regime
One of the world’s foremost sound recordists talks about capturing the genius loci and his enduring love of reggae
The World’s 50 Greatest Guitarists, Mdou Moctar, Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Christy Moore, Seckou Keita, Warsaw Street Music, and so much more in our latest issue
John Atkinson sums up the musical best-bits of the 2018 London Film Festival, kicking off later this week.
The first artists confirmed for this year's Songlines Music Awards Ceremony have been revealed...
Music from Indonesia, South Sudan, Mali, Ukraine and Occitania lights up the festival
The nomadic Brazilian has taken inspiration from his daughter and current headquarters in London to make the most percussive album of his career. “I privileged the spontaneity of the grooves,” he tells Mark Sampson
The 150th issue of Songlines – August/September 2019 – is now on sale!
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