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Songs of the Syrian refugees
In a place where freedom of speech easily gets you arrested, refugees have daringly turned to music and poetry in order to express their feelings. Alexandra Petropoulos reports
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60 Years of Fania Records
Celebrating 60 years of Fania Records, we ask Daymé Arocena, Silvana Estrada, Roberto Fonseca, iLe, Meridian Brothers, Orquesta Akokán, Nathy Peluso, Ana Tijoux and many others to pick some Fania classics. Introduction by Erin Cobby. Interviews by Russ Slater Johnson
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Q&A: David Boulter
Long-time Tindersticks keyboardist talks about his new mini-album, Whitby, an evocative homage to the picturesque seaside town
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Letters to the Future: a collaborative call to imagine – and shape – a better world
Emily Stabell finds out about a grand project bringing together musicians and writers to imagine a better future
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Karolina Cicha: Karaite Kid
Having recorded albums in Yiddish and Tatar, and songs in most of Poland’s minority tongues, Karolina Cicha talks about the Karaite people and their language
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Spell Songs show for broadcast
Folk by the Oak festival team announce exclusive online performance by the nature-loving folk collective
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A Conversation with Alison Brown and Steve Martin: 'Steve’s a member of the tribe. The banjo has been a lifelong passion'
What happens when a “wild and crazy guy” turned banjo obsessive unites with one of the instrument’s trailblazers? Devon Léger finds out when he speaks to Alison Brown & Steve Martin about their new album, Safe, Sensible and Sane
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A Conversation with Sam Lee: “I want every album to be filled with forests, and I want every forest to be filled with music”
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
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Zakaria Ibrahim (1952-2024)
Founder of Egyptian band El Tanbura, champion of the simsimiyya and an important icon of the Egyptian revolution, Zakaria Ibrahim has passed away
