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The 2018 BBC Proms programme launch

This year’s Proms line-up extends from British folk to tango music via Senegalese mbalax

Ravi Shankar remembered

Memories of the Indian sitarist by fellow musicians and admirers

Songlines Music Awards Ceremony – get your tickets now!

Tickets are on-sale and selling fast – don't miss out on some of the best international music, all in one place, for one night only!

Songlines #157 (May 2020) is out now!

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

WOW Global 24 – Women and Girls in a Time of Crisis

The first ever free and online global festival focused on women and girls – WOW Global 24 – takes place June 27-28

Songlines April 2021 issue is out now!

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

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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

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The Folk on Foot Festival returns for a third edition

The award-winning team behind the Folk on Foot podcast are back with the third edition of their hugely popular Front Room Festival.

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Obituary: Hugh Masekela 1939-2018

Nigel Williamson on the life of the colossus of South African music who died on Februrary 23

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My World: Niall Ferguson

Simon Broughton chats immigration, inhibitions and the power of music with one of Britain’s foremost authorities on empire

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Introducing the December 2024 issue of Songlines, featuring Mdou Moctar

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

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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...

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Hugh Masekela

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