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Songbook: ‘Long Lankin’ with Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver
On their latest album, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver have recorded one of the darkest child ballads of all time. Tim Cumming looks for the motive
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Mariza’s World
Mariza won the Best Artist category in the Songlines Music Awards 2016. Following the release of her first album in five years, Mariza makes sure fado is not a limitation. Mundo, she tells Gonçalo Frota, is her way of saying these are happy times
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Review: WOMAD 2018 – Opening Night
Chilled out reggae vibes dominated the first evening of WOMAD 2018 at Charlton Park
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Kronos Quartet: A Beginner's Guide
Jeff Kaliss charts the 50-plus years and many global collaborations of the string quartet, who have just said farewell to two of their longest-serving members
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Songlines Music Awards 2020 Ceremony
This year's ceremony is going virtual and will be broadcast online for free on December 13 at 7pm (GMT) featuring performances from all of this year's winners and presented by Cerys Matthews
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10 Years of Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Festival
As Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Festival celebrates a 10th anniversary which once seemed highly unlikely, Erin Cobby dives deep into an event that has put its local artists on the map. “We spent our life savings”, she finds out
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La Faute des Fleurs – a portrait of Kazuki Tomokawa (To the Moon & Back #4)
Vincent Moon heads to Japan for an incendiary encounter with the enigmatic howling poet, Kazuki Tomokawa
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Seeking recognition for Billy Waters, a pioneer of African-American music, more than 200 years after his death
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
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Toumani Diabaté and Ballaké Sissoko: 21 Strings
With Toumani and Ballaké’s epochal New Ancient Strings to be reissued for its 25th anniversary, we speak to Lucy Durán, the album’s producer, about the unique recording and her documentary tracing the history of the kora
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Triptic: eclectic, energetic and thoroughly intoxicating
Billy Rough tracks down a Scottish trio swirling through tango, klezmer, jazz and ‘Northern’ folk
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Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper: “We’re happy to disrupt”
Kora music gets a radical reworking with Ballaké Sissoko welcoming South African guitarist Derek Gripper into the tradition
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Eliza Carthy's News of the Whirl: Rituals
From smashing eggs to spitting at horses to shouting ‘Yellow car!’, Eliza unpacks the strange daily rituals and superstitions that we indulge in
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20 Great Artists from 20 Years of Songlines
All of these artists who released their first solo album during the lifetime of Songlines (ie since 1999), including Fatoumata Diawara, Mariza, Sam Lee and many more
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March 2023 issue is out now!
Lucas Santtana, Guts, Kimi Djabaté, Discos Pacífico, Shehan Karunatilaka, sevdah, Majid Bekkas, Jerusalem Orchestra East & West, Sam Lee at CO27 and much, much more; plus free Top of the World CD with the issue
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Molly Tuttle interview: “This is for anyone who’s ever felt afraid to be themselves”
Alexandra Petropoulos wigs out with the Californian bluegrass-and-beyond songstress, as she talks about experiences living with alopecia and realising her most daring pop dreams
