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Making music in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp

Kakuma Sound’s co-founder reports from one of the world’s largest refugee camps, an inspirational musical wellspring for social change

Margaret Barry and The Bedford Arms: “Standing with her banjo slung around her, head thrown back and emitting a sound so loud and clear”

Alan Woods takes a look at the legendary Irish singer’s music and the London pub in which she gained much of her reputation

Field of Research: Ewan MacColl

On the 110th anniversary of the legendary folk singer’s birth, Allan Moore looks back at his legacy and skill

Setting the scene: Xanthoula Dakovanou

Xanthoula Dakovanou has recorded Riζituals, an album focussed on Cretan vocal traditions. We find out about her local sights and sounds in the wake of this project's release

On her latest album Miramar, Júlia Colom explores the traditions and culture of Mallorca, both through her versions of traditional Mallorcan tonades and through original songs borne from research and her connection to the region

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Haya Zaatry interview

Meet the young Palestinian singer-songwriter and architect for whom dialect is local, but language is universal

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Obituary: Norma Waterson (1939-2022)

The British folk music matriarch has died, aged 82

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Four Corners and Centre of Raghu Dixit’s Universe

The Indian folk-rocker is back and in ebullient form picking out a truly global selection of albums that have left a deep imprint on his psyche

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60 Years of Fania Records

Celebrating 60 years of Fania Records, we ask Daymé Arocena, Silvana Estrada, Roberto Fonseca, iLe, Meridian Brothers, Orquesta Akokán, Nathy Peluso, Ana Tijoux and many others to pick some Fania classics. Introduction by Erin Cobby. Interviews by Russ Slater Johnson