Congratulations to Youssou N’Dour and Balimaya Project, who have just been announced as this year’s World Pioneer and Newcomer winners at our 2022 Songlines Music Awards live show, hosted at London’s Scala
Four tunes from the Berlin-based Afro-soul group in an exclusive video
Interviews with Jake Blount, Elaha Soroor, Souad Massi, Sara Correia and Chris Watson; the sounds of the century; Beginner's Guide to Soweto Gospel Choir, plus free Top of the World CD and bonus Balkan music CD with each issue
Our world music extravaganza returns with a slew of sumptuous live performances at the Scala in London on November 2
East meets West as innovative British-Asian sound alchemist kick-starts London International Festival of Early Music with world premiere
The much-loved folk multi-instrumentalist, singer and founding member of Faustus, Bellowhead and Belshazzar’s Feast has died, aged 51
Composer and sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun gives Monteverdi a modern-day East-meets-West makeover
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe on ancestral knowledge; pansori ace Jaram Lee finds her Hemingway; secrets of a Colombian marimba seminar; interview with folk musician Jackie Oates, plus free Top of the World CD with each issue
Current Songlines cover star announced as charity spokesperson
A new archive of English protest songs comes to Cecil Sharp House for a live performance and exhibition launch
Free-styling interview with Cuban sensation, Cimafunk; four decades of WOMAD; adventures inside Poland's dark folk fraternity; 60 years of Jamaican musical innovation; Beginner's Guide to Anoushka Shankar, plus free Top of the World CD with each issue
The treasured voice of Australia's Indigenous 'Stolen Generations' has died, aged 66
Bomba Estéreo’s Simón Mejía has announced a new short film, El Duende, exploring the myths, traditions and significance of the marimba in the Colombian Pacific
Celebrating 50 years in the field of dreams with Glastonbury's Golden jubilee; the peak sounds of Morocco's Jebala mountains; interviews with Vieux Farka Touré and Bellowhead; a Beginner's Guide to Steeleye Span, plus free Top of the World CD with each issue
Catch the 'golden voice of Zanzibar' in action during her first ever European performance
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