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Llais Full Line-Up Announced

Global vocal gathering set to make waves on Cardiff Bay this October

Hack-Poets Guild, Social, Hull, Mar 19

Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann revive an old broadside songbook in Hull, home of The Watersons

Jordi Savall's Ibn Battuta: The Traveller of Time

The many journeys of Maghrebi explorer Ibn Battuta are the focus of a new ensemble performance from Jordi Savall

Levellers: A Beginner's Guide

For over 30 years, the anarcho-folk collective have succeeded by doing things their own way. Chris Wheatley finds out about their grassroots rise to fandom and their enduring popularity

“My whole body was shaking. I started to tremble and sing. Two songs later, I didn’t want to stop” | Natalia Lafourcade interview

The multi award-winning Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade reveals to Catalina Maria Johnson how she found her voice in rewriting the Latin American songbook

The Rough Guide to World Music: Chile

Jan Fairley looks at the history and legacy of nueva canción – a music rooted in the guitar traditions of the troubadour that have played a part in Latin America’s political and cultural struggles

The Rough Guide to World Music: Cambodia

From dancing angels to dengue fever, Cambodia's musical culture is flourishing once more, writes John Clewley

The Rough Guide to World Music

The Music of Cambodia: A Rough Guide

From dancing angels to dengue fever, Cambodia's musical culture is flourishing once more, writes John Clewley

Songlines May 2022 issue is out now!

Nominations for this year’s Songlines Music Awards announced; interviews with Lido Pimienta, Maya Youssef and Iberi; a Beginner's Guide to Norwegian Hardanger fiddler Annbjørg Lien, plus free Top of the World compilation CD with every copy

Best New Albums

Top of the World – May 2018

The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the May 2018 issue

Features

Dispatch from Vancouver, Canada

Russell Higham visits Vancouver on the eve of its annual Folk Music Festival, where he finds Canadians standing together against US President Trump’s threats to the country’s sovereignty

News

Olivia Chaney, Natalie Wildgoose and Jon Wilks to headline Late Spring Folk Festival 2026

The Late Spring Folk Festival has announced its 2026 lineup, with Olivia Chaney – fresh from Wuthering Heights fame – set to headline the one-day event on Saturday, May 23 at Dummer Down Farm in Hampshire

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Songlines May 2021 issue is out now!

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi on notions of home; Songlines Music Awards 2021 nominees revealed; interviews with Peggy Seeger and Piers Faccini; a Beginner's Guide to Argentinian accordionist Chango Spasiuk, and more inside