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Tian Qiyi release ‘Red Mist’ single
Brothers John and Charlie Tian Yi Wardle preview album collaboration with father and bass supremo Jah Wobble
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Rust’s Electro-Tarab: challenging Eurocentric narratives about Arabic music production
Rim Irscheid unpacks the stigma faced by Arabic diaspora musicians and how Syrian-Lebanese duo Rust are subverting expectations
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K-Music Fest marks 10th anniversary this autumn
Various London venues host a diverse array of Korean musical talent between October 1 and November 12, reflecting the country’s burgeoning cultural impact across the world during the last decade and more
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Introducing the August/September 2023 issue of Songlines, featuring Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti, WITCH, Israel Fernández and African Head Charge, plus we hit the road with the Master Musicians of Joujouka and put the spotlight on Emicida
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Still Life: Celebrating 100 Years of Emahoy
Robin Denselow celebrates the remarkable Ethiopian nun and musician Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru who would have been 100 on December 12
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Eliza Carthy: ‘I just don’t get why guitars are revered in the way they are’
Eliza explores the “daft” world of guitars before two passionate music friends begin her conversion…
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Music Meeting Festival 2022 (Sponsored Content)
Get the lowdown on the wonderful Pentecost weekender held this summer in the Dutch town of Nijmegen
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BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2018 winners announced
Folk stars congregate in Belfast for the annual awards ceremony
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Songlines Encounters 2022: Gallery of Stars
This year's Songlines Encounters Festival, captured in pictures via the photographic lens of Miguel Santos
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Mali
Few African countries have contributed so many important artists to the World Music market: Salif Keita, Toumani Diabaté, Habib Koité, Kandia Kouyaté, Oumou Sangaré and the late Ali Farka Touré being but a few
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Heemoon Lee & OBANGSINGWA, London, November 23
After blowing away audiences in 2018, Heemoon Lee returned to London with a new group, OBANGSINGWA, to perform a stunning end to this year's K-Music Festival.
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Introducing the November 2023 issue of Songlines, featuring Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo, Irakere, The Mary Wallopers, Anoushka Shankar, Dengue Fever, Chief Adjuah, Bebel Gilberto gives a Beginner’s Guide to João Gilberto, plus dispatches from Hawaii, Australia and Iran
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Mali Obomsawin: "No one needed to hear another indie record, but we wanted to put it out, and we got this very surprising, huge response to it"
Jeff Kaliss speaks to the Abenaki First Nation artist set to unleash her fourth release of the year
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Mali
Few African countries have contributed so many important artists to the World Music market: Salif Keita, Toumani Diabaté, Habib Koité, Kandia Kouyaté, Oumou Sangaré and the late Ali Farka Touré being but a few
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Quickfire: Nora Brown
Talking all-time favourite albums and inspirational artists with the banjo prodigy from Brooklyn championing the sounds of old-time Appalachia
