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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

Marina Satti: Eurovision bound

Mateusz Dobrowolski checks in on the vocalist representing Greece at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest

What Can Musicians and Music Lovers Do During a Climate Crisis?

With the earth passing 1.5 degrees celsius of heating in 2024, and recent natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, we asked artists and researchers how to play and enjoy music while respecting and helping the planet

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Jennifer Reid’s Ballad of the Gatekeeper: reclaiming folk for the marginalised

During their recent tour, Eliza Carthy sat down with Jennifer Reid to discuss a new release of underrepresented and original Lancashire folk songs

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“Fires needed to be extinguished, all kinds of things would go on”: Rikki Stein on managing Fela Kuti

In a new autobiography, Rikki Stein reflects on a non-stop career working with some of the world’s most visionary musicians: Fela Kuti, The Master Musicians of Joujouka and Jimi Hendrix being three examples. Russ Slater Johnson gets Stein to sit still for a minute and attempt to summarise it all

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Jazz is World Music

Why is there so much snobbery and closed-mindedness about jazz from the ‘world music police’?

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Jazz Sous Les Pommiers, Coutances, France, May 16-20

The annual week-long jazz festival in France featured DakhaBrakha, Femi Kuti, Noura Mint Seymali, Antonio Lizana and Robert Cray

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Ebo Taylor (1936–2026)

Ghanaian guitarist and bandleader who fused traditional highlife with funk and Afrobeat in the 1970s, then found global recognition decades later and continued to be a tour de force

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Montparnasse Musique: “With music, we have this chance to speak without words”

Montparnasse Musique discuss the centrality of pan-African history, movement, people and atmosphere in their music

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“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

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Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie: a meeting of minds

A one-off recording pairs the poet and award-winning percussionist. That they’re both deaf was incidental. Jane Cornwell uncovers the duo’s “instant connection”