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Music Meeting Festival 2022 (Sponsored Content)
Get the lowdown on the wonderful Pentecost weekender held this summer in the Dutch town of Nijmegen
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Cocanha champion Occitan culture with ‘Flame Folclòre’
Erin Cobby talks to the duo defying French folk tropes with progressive Occitan song
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Get acquainted with Dusking, a new ritual to welcome the winter
Sophie Parkes dances down the sun with Lucy Wright, choreographer of a new ritual for solo morris performers ushering in the oncoming winter
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Femi Kuti review – ‘I do not want to be my father!’
Femi Kuti brings his usual vivacity and fervour to a transfixed crowd at Islington Assembly Hall, supported ably by the London Afrobeat Collective.
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Watch: Omara Portuondo sings Gershwin
Newly rediscovered footage of the Cuban diva's concert in London's Hyde Park in 2000 shows the singer at her jazziest
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Rainforest World Music Festival 2026
One of the world’s great music festivals, set in Borneo’s living rainforest
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How Astor Piazzolla transformed tango
Chris Moss assesses the intrepid composer’s impact on music – and why his legacy, 100 years on since the great man’s birth, remains a challenge for contemporary tangueros
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Lucrecia Dalt, Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg, Germany, October 7
Lucrecia Dalt drops deeply into a Colombian song-form dub-minimalist miasma at Heidelberg's Enjoy Jazz festival…
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Víctor Jara: A Beginner's Guide
Nearly 50 years a¤er his death, Víctor Jara’s songs continue to inspire idealism across Latin America. Chris Moss recalls Chile’s pre-eminent protest singer
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Folk Round-up (David Mitchell, The Ocelots & more)
Essential folk releases from the England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales featuring Alannah Thornburgh, David Mitchell, Three Idle Women, The Ocelots and more
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World Building Through World Music
Erin Cobby reports on six projects using music as a platform to build communities and give the systematically marginalised a voice, both now and in the future
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Lola Flores: a beginner's guide
Philip Sweeney takes a look back at the life of the flamenco singer, dancer and actress who remains a beacon of Andalucian culture
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Dugri: Straight Talkin'
The latest on the unlikely rap alliance confronting Arab-Jewish racism from both sides
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Hekate: “We just completely lose ourselves in the music and the energy of us three singing together”
Jo Frost meets a bewitching a cappella trio at the forefront of a new Norwegian trad dance revival
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Tiganá Santana: A Beginner's Guide
Mark Sampson speaks to the Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer whose varied endeavours reveal an artist always looking for a challenge
