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Stephan Micus: A Beginner's Guide

The polymath German instrumentalist has an impressive back catalogue. Simon Broughton examines his wealth of recordings to date

Live: Festival Trad Montréal (Montréal, Canada, August 29–31)

Jo Frost gets swept up in a whirl of foot tapping, step dancing and twisting traditions as she visits a live-wire Québécois summit of folk culture

The 13 best American albums of 2018

These 13 inspirational albums received the maximum of five stars when reviewed in Songlines magazine in 2018, featuring Ry Cooder, Mélissa Laveaux, Afro-Cuban All Stars, I’m With Her and more

WOMAD announces first names for 2026

WOMAD have announced the first artists for the inaugural year at their new Wiltshire home, Neston Park. Oumou Sangaré, Barrington Levy, Greentea Peng and José González lead a line-up that is typically diverse and all-encompassing

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January/February 2023 issue is out now!

Totó la Momposina, Terry Riley, Wesli, Emily Portman, Hannah James, the Songlines albums of the year, Montparnasse Musique and much, much more; plus free Top of the World CD with each issue

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Yves Lambert: the Québécois maverick embracing his golden age

Yves Lambert is celebrating half a century of making music by continuing to push the boundaries of Québécois folk. “I’m more and more experimental”, he confides

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Jazz is World Music

Why is there so much snobbery and closed-mindedness about jazz from the ‘world music police’?

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Spotlight: Mexican Institute of Sound

Camilo Lara, by now a ‘certified’ Mexican institution, tells Celeste Cantor-Stephens about 20 years of going against the grain, upsetting scrap collectors and Disney-endorsed success