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Obituary: Danny Thompson (1939–2025)
Celebrated double bassist and Pentangle co-founder has died at the age of 86
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WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Four, October 24
Simon Broughton checks into the last day of digital performances and enjoys the concerts of Hungarian bands with a real audience that took place in Budapest.
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Introducing: COLECTIVA
Erin Cobby finds out how jazz liberation paved the way for a new ensemble to express communal feminine rage
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Important news regarding the Songlines CD
We are making a change to our covermount CD that will affect those who buy Songlines from a retailer. Please read on to find out our plans, and why we are making this change
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Blick Bassy: “This generation must defy imported culture and design their own role models and paths”
Daniel Brown speaks to Cameroonian musician and writer Blick Bassy about breaking the silence on France’s colonialist treatment towards his country’s independence heroes
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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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Other Voices: Home at the Guinness Storehouse
For the fifth consecutive year, this November the Guinness Storehouse hosted a range of musicians – from The Mary Wallopers to Niamh Regan to Tolü Makay – for an evening rich in music, joy and warmth
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Ludovico Einaudi interview: “I always look for purity when I play music and this is what is there in the Malian approach”
The Italian-born composer and pianist talks to Jane Cornwell about his myriad musical collaborators and the music from around the world that fascinates him
