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Eliza Carthy: Wayward and Free
Nathaniel Handy speaks to English singer-songwriter Eliza Carthy, who is the happiest she’s ever been with her new band, new voice and newfound freedom
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Songlines Music Awards 2025: Europe
The best albums from Europe in 2025: Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocărlia, Duo Ruut, Raphael Rogiński & Ružičnjak Tajni, Sílvia Pérez Cruz & Salvador Sobral and Söndörgő
Essential 10
Essential 10: British & Irish Folk Abums
Choosing ten albums across five decades of classic British and Irish folk is a brave if doomed mission, because it’s a list that changes at each iteration, discovers Tim Cumming
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Merlin Sheldrake's My World interview: “Much of creativity seems to happen at the tension between habit and creativity, between order and chaos”
Russ Slater Johnson speaks to one of the world’s foremost authorities on fungi and discovers his parallel love for music
A Beginner's Guide
Mahsa Vahdat: A Beginner's Guide
One of Iran’s leading female singers has become world famous with her myriad collaborations. Laudan Nooshin pinpoints some of her career highlights to date
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Dervish: a beginner's guide
The Irish supergroup have long been the benchmark for traditional music. Michael Quinn examines their impressive catalogue and achievements to date
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Toumani Diabaté: A Beginner’s Guide
The kora has become almost synonymous with the music of Mali. Nigel Williamson examines the career of its chief exponent Toumani Diabaté
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Music in Malawi
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
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“These trying times in which we now live demand combative women willing to risk it all to give us our freedom” | Susana Baca interview
For five decades Susana Baca has been performing plangent protest songs in the name of South America’s marginalised peoples, the poor and the planet. On the eve of the release of her latest album, Palabras Urgentes, the Afro-Peruvian diva talks to Chris Moss
The Rough Guide to World Music
The Rough Guide to World Music: Hungary
Simon Broughton introduces the music of Hungary, a country of ten million people with a strong musical profile
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Hungary
Simon Broughton introduces the music of Hungary, a country of ten million people with a strong musical profile
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Best Albums 2020: Americas
All of these albums received a maximum of five stars when reviewed in the 2020 issues of Songlines. Featuring Sam Amidon, DJ Dolores, Roberto Fonseca, Ibrahim Ferrer, Leela Gilday, Lido Pimienta and many more
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Music Industry vs. Climate Crisis: A New Songbook For A Dying Planet
Writers, musicians, producers and festival programmers are trying to find new ways to communicate the enormity of the climate crisis. Chris Moss talks to them about folk song, farming, ice, industry, wonder and awe
