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Bluegrass pioneer Alice Gerrard previews new solo album with ‘You and Me’ single

High-lonesome heroine drops conjugal comforter ahead of latest solo full-length release

WOW Global 24 – Women and Girls in a Time of Crisis

The first ever free and online global festival focused on women and girls – WOW Global 24 – takes place June 27-28

The tower of Babel Med falls

"I sincerely hope that Babel Med – or some equivalent – will return in 2019"

Sarathy Korwar interview: “It takes guts and vulnerability to cut through the noise and find your own voice”

Sarathy Korwar is becoming an influential figure within London’s vibrant and eclectic music scene. He talks to Jane Cornwell about his latest project, inspired by Brexit Britain and the importance of changing the East-West narrative. Photographs by Rishabah Sood

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Orquesta Akokán: “If you went to a music industry person with this idea, some marketing asshole in New York… forget it”

A new Cuban big band are making waves. All the more surprising for the fact that Orquesta Akokán are a collaboration of first-class Cuban and American musicians. Kim Burton tells their story so far

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GRRRL Power

Alexandra Petropoulos speaks to the collective of women who are tackling the gender imbalance in music and inspiring younger generations

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Songlines #163 (December 2020) is out now!

Mariza pays homage to Queen of Fado, Amália Rodrigues; birdsong collector Cosmo Sheldrake talks avian audio; a Beginner's Guide to Habib Koité and more in the latest issue of Songlines

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Escape Artists: Alison Cotton Commemorates Altruistic ‘Little Angels’

With her forthcoming album and tour, the violist and vocalist pays tribute to Ida and Louise Cook, the music-obsessed sisters who helped Jewish refugees flee Europe from the Nazis

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Obituary: Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021)

The renowned Greek composer, conductor and master of melopoisi who waged wars of words and music against a military junta has died aged 96

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Spell Songs: Eclectic Light Orchestra

Catching up with the stellar folk collective who are casting their illuminating charms on a world in need of a little magic

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New K.O.G. Off The Block (A Love Supreme)

Mighty Afro-fusionist Kweku of Ghana shares ‘Odo Sronko’ featuring highlife icon Pat Thomas, the latest single taken from his forthcoming album, Don’t Take My Soul

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Folk on Foot's Front Room Festival

Organisers of the Folk on Foot podcast are planning a special Easter Bank Holiday Monday virtual festival in order to help musicians impacted by the coronavirus lockdown

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Introducing the October 2023 issue of Songlines, featuring Yungchen Lhamo

Yungchen Lhamo, Balimaya Project, Rhiannon Giddens, Goran Bregović, Balinese gamelan, plus Thomas Sankara’s ‘musical’ leadership of Burkina Faso and a song-filled salute to Gilberto Gil