As Capercaillie celebrate their 40th anniversary, founding member Donald Shaw recalls the band’s earliest forays overseas and how perceptions of Scottish music have changed
Finger-picking guitarist, audio collagist and folk scholar talks Amish hoedowns, Mortal Kombat and some mind-blowing albums
Decades in the making, the new book from influential US producer Joe Boyd is the definitive history of how non-Western music became popular across the world
Jane Cornwell finds out about a residency bringing the popular Cuban sounds of timba to London. “February was a masterclass in Cuban genres… The crowd were going crazy”, she hears
Cumbia, disco and video game music are on the playlist for the London-based quartet’s second album. April Clare Welsh pulls up a stool
Nikolas-Kaan Yilmaz picks out ten albums that trace the nation’s fascinating musical timeline, asking Bulgarian musicians and fans of Bulgarian music alike to share some of their favourites along the way
When African-American musician Billy Waters died in London in 1823, it was in poverty and with his reputation in tatters. Now, 200 years later, researchers and musicians are finally ensuring he gets the respect he deserves
Outstanding new releases from Penya, Afrika Mamas, Toumani Diabaté, Brian Finnegan, Héctor Valentín and more. Tracks from all of these albums are included on the free cover-CD with the June 2021 issue of Songlines
Jim Hickson dives in, gets lost and just about stumbles out of the strange and intriguing world of the Boomtown festival
Simon Broughton gives the low-down of all nine concerts from the recent Songlines Encounters Festival at Kings Place in London, May 30-June 2
Through fantastical water instruments, Sonidos de la Tierra have been helping bring both music and environmental activism to Paraguay’s communities. Huw Hennessy finds out more…
Tim Cumming delves into the history and mystical appeal of the Moroccan musicians from Jajouka
In the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta sits between the European and Islamic worlds. That dual heritage is reflected in its Indigenous music, reports Simon Broughton, and it deserves to be better known
Daniel Spicer finds out about the rise, fall and resurrection of WITCH. “Times have evolved,” says Emmanuel ‘Jagari’ Chanda
The multi award-winning Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade reveals to Catalina Maria Johnson how she found her voice in rewriting the Latin American songbook
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