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Transatlantic Sessions Live at Celtic Connections, Feb 3, 2023
Television series spawns showcase of folk, bluegrass and country talent from both sides of the pond
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Anoushka Shankar’s most daring chapter yet: “I feel like I'm in my power”
Thirty years in, the sitarist is releasing one of the most daring albums of her career, and she’s doing it on her own terms. Russ Slater Johnson heralds a return to the light…
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Taj Mahal: A Beginner's Guide
Nigel Williamson surveys the US musician whose career has long shown that the blues is a global musical movement
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WOMAD Announces New Series of Immersive Online Music Performances
WOMAD comes direct to listeners' living rooms courtesy of a new immersive audio project
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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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Eliades Ochoa, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, April 30
Buena Vista Social Club star Eliades Ochoa takes centre stage at Cheltenham Jazz Festival
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Quickfire: Ana Carla Maza
We ask the Havana-born cellist, vocalist and composer about the albums she loves, the musicians she admires and her favourite new artists
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Nitin Sawhney interview: “Beyond Skin was about the paradox of how we perceive nationality and religion”
The composer, producer and musical polymath Nitin Sawhney is revisiting his acclaimed Beyond Skin album 20 years after its release. He talks politics and music with Nigel Williamson
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Aynur: Solace in Exile
The Kurdish singer Aynur Doğan has released her first solo album while living in exile in the Netherlands. She tells Robert Rigney her reasons for leaving Turkey and her mission to keep Kurdish songs alive
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Setting the Scene: Elana Sasson
Fresh from the release of her ambitious ensemble album, In Between, the singer-composer waxes lyrical about cultural life in her new home of Valencia
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Light from the North
Composer and fiddler Aidan O’Rourke is heading to London’s Kings Place to celebrate the musical traditions and communitarian spirit of Scotland. Billy Rough hears all about it
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Northern Lights Festival, Tromsø, Norway, January 27-February 4
Kidjo crowns Arctic role with stunning orchestral takes of her lesser-visited classics
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Obituary: Baba Commandant
The bandleader and primary vocalist of Burkina Faso's Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band has passed away aged 51
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Afel Bocoum interview: “By the time corona arrived we had already more than enough going on here in Mali”
A key figure in Ali Farka Touré’s band, Afel Bocoum is releasing a long-awaited and rare solo album that finds him stepping into the limelight. He talks to Bram Posthumus about living in exile in Bamako, the situation in Mali and his desire to reconnect with the world
