Flamenco is a way of living. It’s about taking risks and letting yourself get carried away by what you feel in your heart, with your body. Jan Fairley offers a beginner’s guide to an Andalucían artform that has found popularity throughout the world
The 11th edition of the celebrated Korean Music Festival brings some of the country’s most vital artists to the capital this autumn
Tom Pryor reports from New York’s annual globalFEST, featuring Meklit, Tufan Derince Trio and Ak Dan Gwang Chil
Franco-Armenian fusion phenomenon shake up the Balkan pop formula with ‘Je Voulais’
The Malian singer-songwriter Habib Koité is also one of his country’s leading guitarists. Daniel Brown reflects on the artist’s recordings and career to date
The 'world music bible', now available exclusively on the Songlines website
Alarmed by the far-right surge, Cara de Espelho have gathered members of some of Portugal’s best-loved bands to create something new, and urgently needed. Gonçalo Frota meets the group and attends one of their first shows
Charis McGowan visits Rapa Nui to find out how the arrival of the isolated island’s first piano led to a music school and a re-energised approach to learning about the island’s traditions
The Zee London Mela comes to Southall Park for the first time in its 16-year history – the epicentre of Europe's oldest Asian community
Simon Broughton speaks to Shye Ben Tzur about his qawwali-Hebrew collaboration with The Rajasthan Express and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood
Dates for the delayed final concerts of Songlines Encounters Festival 2021 have now been confirmed
World music is a maze. And what you need is a good map. So here is our A to Z of world music, taking you from Africa Express to Zimbabwe, from Balkan brass to qawwali and from cumbia to WOMAD
Anoushka Shankar, Bebel Gilberto, rare Bulgarian recordings, a Guide to Tuvan and Mongolian throat singing, our annual International World Music Festival Guide and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
Catching up with the latest innovative compilation from the Sahel Sounds imprint
The old guard of Romanian lautari music meet the Bucharest alternivistas on a brand new project
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