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
Daniel Brown speaks to Cameroonian musician and writer Blick Bassy about breaking the silence on France’s colonialist treatment towards his country’s independence heroes
The old guard of Romanian lautari music meet the Bucharest alternivistas on a brand new project
Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, Folkway Records, The Breath, Ndox Electrique, Soema Montenegro, Ebo Taylor, Billy Strings, Dubioza Kolektiv, John Francis Flynn, Sofia Kourtesis, Huun-Huur-Tu and much more
A highly unlikely series of events led to Tajikistan becoming a musical hub and focus for a brand-new compilation, Lost In Tajikistan
Tim Plester and Rob Curry’s documentary on legendary UK archivist and filmmaker, Doc Rowe, is soon to be released. Today marks the launch of their crowdfunder campaign for the digitisation of Doc’s work.
UK’s longest-running indie festival to end with special 60th celebration featuring Billy Bragg, Seth Lakeman and The Staves
The British artist was all at sea until he came across a druid ceremony which ignited his art and set him off on a new path as a documentarian. “It made me re-plug myself back into humanity,” he tells Russ Slater Johnson
Annoying RTÉ, dissing the rich and staying true to Dundalk: Charles Hendy tells Emma Rycroft about The Mary Wallopers’ rise to the top. “Throughout my enjoyment of music, I’ve liked stuff that was probably done wrong,” he confides
The Afro Celt Sound System founder, initiator of The Imagined Village, record producer, composer, guitarist and birdsong enthusiast has passed away
Jo Frost picks out some highlights from the second evening of WOMEX Digital Showcases, ranging from busking Malawians to Mexican marimba mayhem
Singer-songwriter Jeremy Loops collaborates with the iconic vocal troupe Ladysmith Black Mambazo on polyphonic mood-lifter, 'This Town'
Glenn Kimpton finds out why Alex Vann, of Spiro and Three Cane Whale, traded in his f-hole instrument for a round-hole mandolin
Nathaniel Handy speaks to English singer-songwriter Eliza Carthy, who is the happiest she’s ever been with her new band, new voice and newfound freedom
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