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Quickfire: Clare Sands

Boosting Dylan and talking world medal martial arts with the Irish singer and fiddle-player channelling the music of her ancestors

Stunning new video from Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

Watch Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita perform the mesmerising ‘Clarach’ from their new album, SOAR.

Top of the World - April 2019

The month's best new albums, including Blick Bassy, Carminho and Leyla McCalla.

April 2023 issue is out now!

Ali Farka Touré, Baaba Maal, Hack-Poets Guild, Polobi, the aboriginal music of Taiwan, a Beginner’s Guide to the recently departed Gal Costa, free Top of the World CD, plus much, much more

Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain: “The most important thing is hopefully people will love the music”

Welsh harpist Catrin Finch is embarking on a new partnership, this time exploring her Celtic and classical roots with Irish fiddle player Aoife Ní Bhriain

Cigdem Aslan review – Green Note April 18

On April 18 as part of Rebetiko Carnival, Turkish-Kurdish singer Çiğdem Aslan brought the music of the taverns of Asia Minor and Greece to London.

Eliades Ochoa, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, April 30

Buena Vista Social Club star Eliades Ochoa takes centre stage at Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Söndörgő & The Kelemen Quartet, Budapest, April 8

A Balkan folk feedback loop curves to Béla Bartók and back in Budapest’s impressively opulent hall…

Songlines April 2022 issue is out now!

Interviews with Ibibio Sound Machine, Knight & Spiers, Elvis Costello and Imarhan; a look at the new generation of Viking noise-bringers; a Beginner's Guide to Le Vent du Nord, plus two free CD compilations with every copy

Live reviews

Tallinn Music Week, Estonia, April 4-7

Tallinn Music Week, where Estonian jaw harps meet Moroccan basscore pile-ups and Québécois stomping…

Best New Albums

Top of the World – April 2018

The editor's selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the April 2018 issue. All of these great tracks appear on the free cover CD included with the magazine.

Best New Albums

Top of the World – April 2020

The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the April 2020 issue

Live reviews

Orchestra Baobab review – Barbican, April 27

The legendary Senegalese band performed to a sold-out Barbican Centre on April 27 as part of the festival La Linea.

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Songlines April 2021 issue is out now!

A celebration of tango maestro Astor Piazzolla; Indonesia's Senyawa talk radical abstraction and homemade instrumentation; mbira missionary Stella Chiweshe's Shona spirituality; a Beginner's Guide to Irish troupe Kíla and more in the latest issue