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Quickfire: William Barton
The Aboriginal didgeridoo doyen and composer talks about his all-time favourite albums and most memorable musical encounters
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WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Three, October 23
Alexandra Petropoulos tunes in for the Friday Digital Showcases of WOMEX 2020 and picks her highlights, from warm maloya to jazz kaval
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Celtic Connections 2024: Scotland’s ‘City of Music’ tunes up for its much-loved winter festival
A stellar line-up of multi-genre talent gears up to gather in Glasgow for Celtic Connections 2024
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How Astor Piazzolla transformed tango
Chris Moss assesses the intrepid composer’s impact on music – and why his legacy, 100 years on since the great man’s birth, remains a challenge for contemporary tangueros
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My Instrument: Hyelim Kim and her daegeum
The doyenne of the Korean bamboo flute talks about the power of distortion and diverse dictionaries of tonal colours
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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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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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Bandoneón | Musical Instrument Guide (with Julian Rowlands)
Chris Moss talks to Tango Siempre’s Julian Rowlands about his chromatic ‘cuckoo clock’ and how he came to the bandoneón
