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Songlines Encounters 2022: Gallery of Stars
This year's Songlines Encounters Festival, captured in pictures via the photographic lens of Miguel Santos
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Introducing the June 2024 issue of Songlines, featuring Margareth Menezes
Folk & Festivals special featuring the most exciting new names in folk music, our extensive UK Festival Guide and an interview with Brazil’s Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes
Best New Albums
The best new albums from around the world, featuring Cerys Hafana, Abel Selaocoe & Söndörgő
Outstanding new releases from Yasmine Hamdan, Mulatu Astatke, Cerys Hafana, Abel Selaocoe, Söndörgő, Meral Polat, Guitari Baro, Qvam/Plassen, Wayku and Tiani Qiyi
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Songlines Music Awards 2025: Middle East
Our favourite albums from the Middle East in 2025, from Yasmine Hamdan, SANAM, Nadah El Shazly, Maurice Louca, Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme
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Take Note: MOMO.
The nomadic Brazilian has taken inspiration from his daughter and current headquarters in London to make the most percussive album of his career. “I privileged the spontaneity of the grooves,” he tells Mark Sampson
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Tampere: Finland’s Music Capital (Advertorial)
After Manchester last year, WOMEX (the Worldwide Music Expo) heads to Tampere, the 'Manchester of the North'. WOMEX 2025 local partner Tapio Korjus, of Rockadillo Production Oy – and a longtime resident – explains the importance of Tampere on the Finnish musical scene
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Playlist: Women of Hip-Hop
Spanning from Senegal to Guatemala, Libya to London, this global roster of female MCs continues in the footsteps of legends like MC Lyte and Lauryn Hill, helping to redefine women’s role in hip-hop.
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The Folk on Foot Festival returns for a third edition
The award-winning team behind the Folk on Foot podcast are back with the third edition of their hugely popular Front Room Festival.
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Obituary: Paul Sartin (1971-2022)
The much-loved folk multi-instrumentalist, singer and founding member of Faustus, Bellowhead and Belshazzar’s Feast has died, aged 51
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Songlines' Global Christmas Playlist
Our rundown of some of the finest and most far-flung new festive anthems this Christmas
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Laura Cannell: “I take my instruments and I drive off to a church and, if it’s empty, I just sneak in and play”
Olivia Cheves speaks to composer and musician Laura Cannell about her compulsion to make music, why she had to find her own traditions and why she’d love to record an album in an aircraft hangar
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Roots Round-Up (Marcella Simien, Rosier, Eliza Thorn and more)
Essential Roots releases from the US and Canada, featuring Morgan Harris, Locarno and Tamar Ilana
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Folk Archives: Tabla Tarang
The tabla tarang is a set of between 10 and 16 tablas with each tabla tuned to a different note
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October/November 2025 issue of Songlines is out now!
Malkit Singh, Meklit Hadero, Cerys Hafana, Divanhana, Spafford Campbell, Sarathy Korwar’s Essential Drummers, L Shankar’s Guide to Carnatic Music, ‘Galway Girl’ and so much more
