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Programme Released for the New Music Biennial 2019

Taking place in London and Hull across two weekends in July 2019, the New Music Biennial features 19 new commissions from a stellar line-up of artists. We pick out some of the highlights.

Eurosonic Noorderslag 2024

CMAT, Lina_ and YĪN YĪN are but a few of the big names that showed up for ESNS 2024

Postcard from Québec, Canada

Yousif Nur returns to Québec with free-form festivals, First Nations history and presidential hotels on his agenda

Stewart Lee interview: “Stand-up is a duet with the audience. It doesn’t mean anything unless people are laughing. Or booing”

The comedian and writer tells Julian May about a childhood fascination with the past and the parallels between stand-up and the music he loves

Laura Cannell: “I take my instruments and I drive off to a church and, if it’s empty, I just sneak in and play”

Olivia Cheves speaks to composer and musician Laura Cannell about her compulsion to make music, why she had to find her own traditions and why she’d love to record an album in an aircraft hangar

Sufi and Jewish Music Nights, Hamburg, March 16 & 19

Sufi and Jewish Music Nights take over the towering Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg

Belgrade Jazz Festival - review

The 34th edition of the Belgrade Jazz Festival featured Chucho Valdés, Miklós Lukács and Irina Karamarkovic

Fireside Stories: Capercaillie recount their unexpected tour of the Middle East

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

Digging in deep with Scottish folk-singer Dick Gaughan’s passionate act of personal and political liberation

“For some reason, it seemed to strike a chord with people, and it is the most successful recording I have made in terms of acclaim and sales”

Marina Satti: Eurovision bound

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

Songbook: ‘Jeg leder og søger’

A new musical project, Stemmer i Voks, looks at the people and music of Denmark’s heather lands, shining a light on a centuries-old wedding song

Music Meeting Festival 2022 (Sponsored Content)

Get the lowdown on the wonderful Pentecost weekender held this summer in the Dutch town of Nijmegen

Essential 10 When Jazz Goes Latin Albums

Giant of Latin jazz, pianist Eddie Palmieri dismissed ‘jazz Latin’ as simply jazz with added congas. Here, Mark Sampson picks out some of his favourite Latin-flavoured recordings by jazz artists who dared to add that dancing drum