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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.
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Playlist: Musicians in Exile
A Songlines playlist for Apple Music exploring the music of musicians who left their home countries for one reason or another.
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Holy Cowley: the return of the Cowley Road Carnival
With Cowley Road Carnival returning for the first time in five years, Fred Waine takes a trip to Oxford’s melting pot
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Review: WOMAD 2018 – Saturday
Superb female vocalists and ceilidh-style dancing were the highlights of Saturday's WOMAD line-up
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Letting The Light In
Kings Place’s new artist-in-residence talks about the programme she’s curated for Scotland Unwrapped, involving poetry, birdsong, folklore and choral euphoria
Features
Introducing... Emily Wurramara
On her latest album the rising Anindilyakwa star channels trauma, ancestral knowledge and togetherness. “It’s a community-driven record”, she declares
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Welcome to Africa’s largest music festival – Nyege Nyege
At the heart of Uganda’s vibrant, innovative and optimistic music scene, ‘Africa’s largest music festival’ Nyege Nyege continues to surprise and delight
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Q&A: Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright answers our questions about his latest album Folkocracy and what it was like growing up amid folk royalty
Essential 10
The 10 Best Folk Albums of 2020
Tim Cumming looks back over the best folk albums reviewed in Songlines in 2020, which have sustained us through this locked down year
Live reviews
Review: WOMAD 2019 - Day 3
Music from Indonesia, South Sudan, Mali, Ukraine and Occitania lights up the festival
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Zar Electrik: bridging cultures with a fusion of African, Arabic and electronic sounds
Guinea, Gnawa and gilded British beats collide in Marseille where a powerful new trio are arranging an amplified assault
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The August/September 2024 issue of Songlines is out now!
It’s our 200th issue and it’s packed: Leyla McCalla, Peter Gabriel, Kronos Quartet, Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper, Malta, Joe Boyd, The Cavemen, Rapa Nui, Billy Bragg…
Features
Introducing... Balimaya Project
The 16-piece are reclaiming Mande tradition and helping to educate their communities. Jane Cornwell catches up with bandleader Yahael Camara Onono
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Playlist: Musicians in Exile
A Songlines playlist for Apple Music exploring the music of musicians who left their home countries for one reason or another.
Features
Spotlight: Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
Daniel Spicer reports on a new collaboration between the son of a Malian guitar legend and the hypnotic trio from Houston, a lilting fusion of desert blues, psychedelia and dub
