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Noam Vazana: Ladino Life
Israeli-born vocalist Noam Vazana composes songs in the Jewish Ladino language and speaks here to Simon Broughton about her fascination with this dying tongue
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Erland Cooper speaks about the inspirations fuelling his great Orkney trilogy
The Orcadian musician talks about his triptych of albums inspired by the sounds, landscape and people of his birthplace
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K-Music Comes To London
The 11th edition of the celebrated Korean Music Festival brings some of the country’s most vital artists to the capital this autumn
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Rhiannon Giddens: A Beginner's Guide
“I never want anything I do to feel like it’s a lecture.” Nigel Williamson guides us through the prolific and pioneering career of one of America’s finest
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Essential 10: British & Irish Folk Abums
Choosing ten albums across five decades of classic British and Irish folk is a brave if doomed mission, because it’s a list that changes at each iteration, discovers Tim Cumming
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Celtic Connections 2024: Scotland’s ‘City of Music’ tunes up for its much-loved winter festival
A stellar line-up of multi-genre talent gears up to gather in Glasgow for Celtic Connections 2024
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Folk Round-Up (New music from Leonard Barry, Amy Laurenson, Louise Bichan, The Naomi Berrill Trio, Philippe Barnes & Tom Phelan)
Uilleann pipes, Orkney fiddles, Irish cellos and more in our latest round-up of folk music from across the British Isles
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Daymé Arocena: “I am letting people see inside me with the music”
The young Cuban singer Daymé Arocena has had a rapid rise to fame. She tells Jane Cornwell about her journey so far and her tribute to Santería’s female orishas
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Víctor Jara: A Beginner's Guide
Nearly 50 years a¤er his death, Víctor Jara’s songs continue to inspire idealism across Latin America. Chris Moss recalls Chile’s pre-eminent protest singer
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Songlines Best Albums of 2017
Songlines’ editors Jo Frost and Simon Broughton select their favourite albums of 2017
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Game For Laughs: YĪN YĪN Unleash 'Tokyo Disko' Single + Vid
Dutch doyens of exotic funk fusion preview the release of their latest album with offbeat quiz-time video romp
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Le Vent du Nord: Beginner's Guide
Jo Frost takes a look at the impressive career of Le Vent du Nord, Québec’s finest musical ambassadors
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“Capturing the experiences of wildness, loss, queerness, love, and mystery” | Introducing... Dani Larkin
The Irish folk artist talks to Jane Coyle about how living on the Armagh-Monaghan border has shaped both her life and her songwriting
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What Next for Brazil?
Bolsonaro’s election win and incendiary rhetoric have brought uncertainty and division to the country. Alex Robinson reports from Salvador where its deeply rooted Afro-Brazilian culture is under fire
