The Irish button accordionist from County Clare is known for her genre-crossing collaborations, taking traditional Irish music to places it’s never been before. Michael Quinn looks back over her impressive career
Charis McGowan visits Rapa Nui to find out how the arrival of the isolated island’s first piano led to a music school and a re-energised approach to learning about the island’s traditions
After the pandemic forced Seckou Keita to think about concepts of home, he responded with his most adventurous album to date
American banjo and fiddle player Jake Blount explains to Alexandra Petropoulos how he’s using the sounds and lessons of history and the global climate crisis to envision a new future for Black spiritual music
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
The Joy started their a capella singing in a small classroom in rural South Africa; now they’re set to release their eponymous full-length album
The theme of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival is Rituals that Unite Us. Simon Broughton witnesses three performances that fit the brief
Ian Brennan on why the Grammys’ ‘Global’ music isn’t truly global
Looking back over the past 12 months at the albums that have made the biggest impression
Russ Slater Johnson speaks to the English singer and climate activist about campfire singalongs, collecting folk songs in unexpected places and how nature is at the heart of everything he does
On returning to her native Somaliland, Sahra Halgan reflects on a voyage of struggle, activism and discovery, marked by a chance encounter with an unlikely French musical family and a drive for positive change
Head to the Big Easy for a wondrous double-weekend festival bursting with unique musical and cultural thrills
Erin Cobby travels to Corsica to experience Rencontres de Chants Polyphoniques de Calvi, a festival that brings people together through its celebration of the human voice
Around half of the 80,000 indigenous Sámi people live in Norway. Simon Broughton talks to one of the country’s rising musical stars, Marja Mortensson, about how she’s invigorating the joik tradition. Photos Knut Åserud & Tom Askew-Miller
Russell Higham visits Louisiana, home of the world-famous Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans and Lafayette, where he finds a state proudly and positively celebrating its musical connections to the wider world
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