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Diabaté in the dock

The recent arrest of Sidiki Diabaté has shocked the music community and highlighted issues of domestic violence towards women in Mali

Songlines #160 (August/September 2020) is out now!

Kurdish singer talks about living in exile and her former life in Turkey, we share our favourite festival memories in support of live music, a Beginner's Guide to Rajery and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines

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Rachel Newton and Lauren MacColl shine a light on the Scottish witch trials

Jo Frost speaks to Scottish folk artists Rachel Newton and Lauren MacColl whose Heal & Harrow project aims to raise awareness of the women who were persecuted as a result of the Scottish witch trials

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Salif Keita: “The youth are into machines… We are about to lose our traditional instruments”

After announcing his retirement in 2018, Malian singer and musician Salif Keita has slowly returned to the spotlight following a series of shows last year. Now, he’s making the comeback official with an extraordinary new album

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Obituary: Hasan Saltık (1964-2021)

The founder of Turkey’s Kalan Müzik imprint remembered

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Ballads on the Box

Two new TV shows, The Gallows Pole and The Change, give British and Irish folk music starring roles

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Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie: a meeting of minds

A one-off recording pairs the poet and award-winning percussionist. That they’re both deaf was incidental. Jane Cornwell uncovers the duo’s “instant connection”

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Watch: Oumou Sangaré's 'Mali Niale'

Oumou Sangaré releases a new video from her 2017 album Mogoya in aid of Mali's 58th Independence Day

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Songhoy Blues: “[We] like to make people dance… but our social concerns are the reason for the music”

From their discovery in Bamako by Damon Albarn’s Africa Express in 2013 to the global release of their latest stripped-back album in 2025, Robin Denselow traces Songhoy Blues’ journey through exile, resistance and optimism

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Exploring Malta's Resurgent Local Music Scene

In the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta sits between the European and Islamic worlds. That dual heritage is reflected in its Indigenous music, reports Simon Broughton, and it deserves to be better known

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Video premiere: Fatoumata Diawara's 'Bonya'

Fatoumata Diawara releases a new video from her album Fenfo, before returning to the UK this November.

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20 Years of Morgenland

Simon Broughton visits Morgenland Festival in Germany for an opening concert celebrating 20 years of an event which has provided a vital showcase for many artists from the Middle East and North Africa