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The Young'Uns share three career highlights ahead of 20th anniversary tour

A capella Teesside folk trio The Young’Uns – whose music is marked by its strong social conscience and gorgeous harmonies – celebrate their 20th anniversary this year.

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Obituary: Ekuka Morris Sirikiti (1961–2024)

Famed storyteller and lukeme player from Uganda having a late-career resurgence

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Another Good Friday (International Women's Day Special)

To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8 we've picked out a selection of new releases from female artists, including Emahoy, Natalia Lafourcade, Ireland's VARO and more

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Introducing the April 2025 issue of Songlines, featuring Ichiko Aoba

Ichiko Aoba, Abel Selaocoe, Seu Jorge, Andy Irvine, Cambodian rap, the most anticipated albums of 2025, Gurdjieff Ensemble, Alabaster DePlume and much more

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Ashley Hutchings’ Million Dollar Bash

Folk-rock hero and Fairport founder is celebrating his 80th birthday with a different kind of Convention

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Songlines receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Songlines attended Folk Alliance International, the ‘world’s largest folk music gathering’, in Montréal to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and get lost in a hotel-spanning labyrinth of musical moments

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Musicians of the Nile pay tribute to Oum Kalthoum in Paris

Egyptian musicians come together in Paris to celebrate the life of one of the world’s most iconic singers

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Songlines - April 2025

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Inside the issue…

Ichiko Aoba – prepare to fall in love with the Japanese folk dreamer’s majestic music

Abel Selaocoe – in conversation with the South African cellist and singer

Cambodia – uncovering a new Khmer rap scene and the censorship it faces

Seu Jorge – the actor and samba legend picks out his favourite Brazilian albums

Andy Irvine – the canny career of a legend of Irish trad

Alabaster DePlume – the English improv-poet finds healing in grief
2025 Preview – the most anticipated albums of the year

Gurdjieff Ensemble – dive into the life of one of the world’s great mystics

Ashley Hutchings – previewing the British folk legend’s extraordinary 80^th birthday bash

+ 15-track Top of the World album (CD & download)

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