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
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
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
Oumou Sangaré releases a new video from her 2017 album Mogoya in aid of Mali's 58th Independence Day
Two new TV shows, The Gallows Pole and The Change, give British and Irish folk music starring roles
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”
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
Fatoumata Diawara releases a new video from her album Fenfo, before returning to the UK this November.
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
Ten of our longest-standing contributors pick albums released during Songlines’ lifetime that are well overdue another listen
Artists from across Africa pay tribute to the kora maestro who has tragically passed away
The Malian singer and guitarist is the latest artist announced for Songlines Encounters Festival this May
Malian singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara releases EP in association with Timbuktu archive project
All of these artists who released their first solo album during the lifetime of Songlines (ie since 1999), including Fatoumata Diawara, Mariza, Sam Lee and many more
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