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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Songlines Music Awards 2025: Fusion

The best global fusion albums of the year, featuring AMMAR 808, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart, Africa Express, Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko, and Abel Selaocoe

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Songlines Music Awards 2025: World Pioneer

The winner of this year’s World Pioneer award is Peggy Seeger. An American singer and musician who calls England her home, Seeger has been a seismic figure in folk music for seven decades. In a year that included her final album and final tour, Robin Denselow celebrates a revelatory career and speaks to the family members who have been at her side throughout

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Essential 10 Maskandi Albums

Kwanele Sosibo picks ten albums showing how the Southern African style has evolved from working-class folk songs to expressing a fugitive urban masculinity

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Celtic Connections (Advertorial)

Europe’s premier winter music festival returns for its 33rd edition with a programme featuring Grammy winners, folk legends and artists from Cuba to Québec

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