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Thursday, March 6, 2025

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

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Catriona Price: Routes to Roots

Scottish fiddler Catriona Price discusses grand plans to bring international musicians together through her ever-ambitious project

Thursday, March 6, 2025

The 4 Corners and Centre of Amayo’s Universe

Amayo, former frontman of Antibalas, has released a solo album honouring traditional Edo customs and his martial arts training. He picks the albums (and film) which led to this moment

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Label of Love: Arabusta

“These are records that have so much potential, that are incredibly crafted, but for a series of circumstances maybe didn’t get the recognition they deserved at the time of release”

Thursday, March 6, 2025

A Conversation with Abel Selaocoe

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe tells Emma Rycroft about the origins and inspirations behind his new album, Hymns of Bantu: “I wanted to celebrate all the people at home who really influenced me”, he explains

Thursday, March 6, 2025

The Rise and Resistance of Cambodian Hip-Hop

Alex Robinson visits Cambodia, where a new generation are using hip-hop as a force for social change despite repression that carries dark echoes of the country’s past

Thursday, March 6, 2025

2025 Preview: Reasons to be Cheerful

A lot is cooking this year. Here are the albums you should be getting excited about, from unknown West Virginian gospel singers and Afrobeat legends to Indigenous Brazilians playing ‘country music’ and soulful Ethiopian sounds. Words by Russ Slater Johnson and Erin Cobby

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Andy Irvine: A Beginner's Guide

The Irish music icon tells Emma Rycroft about Planxty’s swift success, his love of Balkan music and the array of sounds he’s explored from his first days in Dublin

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