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Review: WOMAD 2019 – Day 1
Indian and Cuban brass – the leading factors in the opening night of ‘the world’s festival’
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Mamadou Diabaté: master of the balafon
The West African xylophone is steeped in the mythology of the Mali Empire. Simon Broughton meets balafon player Mamadou Diabaté, who is helping to keep the instrument’s 800-year history alive
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Towersey Bows Out With A Bang
UK’s longest-running indie festival to end with special 60th celebration featuring Billy Bragg, Seth Lakeman and The Staves
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Soapbox: Swimming Against The Stream
Does more mean less in the digital music market place?
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Songlines #164 (January/February 2021) is out now!
Albums of the year revealed; singer Liraz on her Iranian roots; the young lions leading Afrobeats' infiltration of the mainstream; a Beginner's Guide to French troubadours Lo’Jo and more in the latest issue of Songlines
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Songs for “Great Leaders”: North Korean Music
Keith Howard gives a glimpse into his work on the music of North Korea, uncovering codes, state productions and unsettling consequences
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Son Jarocho: A Beginner's Guide
From fandangos to the silver screen, Kary Stewart outlines the evolution of the traditional folk style from Veracruz, Mexico with a record of resistance
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Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper: “We’re happy to disrupt”
Kora music gets a radical reworking with Ballaké Sissoko welcoming South African guitarist Derek Gripper into the tradition
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globalFEST at Lincoln Center's Summer for the City, NYC, Saturday July 30
Behind the frontlines for an evening of disparate musical discovery, with the first live globalFEST event since the start of pandemic
The Rough Guide to World Music
The Music of Ireland: A Rough Guide
Ireland’s traditional music has some innate and elusive quality whose appeal has spread far beyond its shores
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How Iberi's new album was inspired by the food, wine and glorious musical harmonies of Georgia
The Georgian male vocal group Iberi celebrate the country’s predilection for feasting with their new album. Simon Broughton gets a taste from the choir’s leader Buba Murgulia
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“Our musicality has been inspired and evolved in accordance with birdsong” | Sam Lee and the musical inspiration of nightingales
Folk singer, song collector, environmental campaigner and author Sam Lee talks to Simon Broughton about his passion for the nightingale and his quest to raise awareness about this endangered songbird
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“Part of the story of this album is to bring a sense of hope for the entire Indian subcontinent” | Purbayan Chatterjee interview
Indian sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee’s new star-studded album, a go-getting synthesis of South Asian and Western elements, is a creative response to the limitations of lockdown. Simon Broughton reports
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Postcard From Northern Labrador: Sacred Throat-Singing & Polar Bear Spotting
Songlines ventured north to the Labrador Peninsula, Canada, home to the Inuit and a very particular singing style called katajjaq
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Celtic Colours International Festival 2018 review
Novia Scotia celebrates its Scottish roots at this years' edition of the Celtic Folk festival, emphasising the musical connections between old and new country alike.
