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Angélique Kidjo interview: “I wanted to be a ghost”

From Adam and Eve to empowering women across the world – there’s not much that Angélique Kidjo doesn’t have an opinion about. Jane Cornwell meets to the irrepressible singer

Kashmir’s beatboxers are fighting for recognition

Kashmir’s beatboxers come together to find harmony and opportunities through the blackouts

Spell Songs show for broadcast

Folk by the Oak festival team announce exclusive online performance by the nature-loving folk collective

Exploring the Ruhaniyat festival: “recharge the batteries of your soul”

Simon Broughton heads to Mumbai, India for a remarkable spectacle of Sufi and mystic music

Introducing María José Llergo: “What we now call tradition was a revolution in its own time”

The young Spanish flamenco singer tells Gonçalo Frota how tradition and contemporaneity come together in her music. Photographs by Miguel Triano

Best Albums 2020: Fusion

All of these albums received a maximum of five stars when reviewed in the 2020 issues of Songlines. Featuring Xylouris White, Sunny Jain, Derek Gripper, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn and many more

Meeting Muireann Bradley

Paul Slade speaks to a young Irish guitarist Muireann Bradley, who is infatuated with Reverend Gary Davis, Elizabeth Cotten and John Fahey and whose debut album was one of the sleeper hits of 2023

After receiving an invite to attend the annual Lake of Stars festival, Christopher Conder heads to Malawi, finding local musicians en route to international stardom and others proudly fulfilling roles as social historians and bearers of their nation’s richest traditions