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Review: WOMAD 2019 - Day 3

Music from Indonesia, South Sudan, Mali, Ukraine and Occitania lights up the festival

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

Songlines Music Awards Ceremony – get your tickets now!

Tickets are on-sale and selling fast – don't miss out on some of the best international music, all in one place, for one night only!

Songlines #157 (May 2020) is out now!

Moonlight Benjamin, the Songlines Music Awards 2020 nominees, Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela, London Bulgarian Choir, Juan Martín and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines

Getting back to gigs: the music industry needs you!

Music fans’ views sought to help the UK's live music industry plan for the safe return of gigs

Songlines April 2021 issue is out now!

A celebration of tango maestro Astor Piazzolla; Indonesia's Senyawa talk radical abstraction and homemade instrumentation; mbira missionary Stella Chiweshe's Shona spirituality; a Beginner's Guide to Irish troupe Kíla and more in the latest issue

News

Obituary: Hugh Masekela 1939-2018

Nigel Williamson on the life of the colossus of South African music who died on Februrary 23

The Rough Guide to World Music

The Rough Guide to World Music: Ethiopia

Explore the land of wax and gold, a country full of fascinating music, in this complete guide by Francis Falceto

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“The jazz word in the folk world is something that people get frightened of” | Knight & Spiers interview

Robin Denselow learns how a chance pairing of melodeon player John Spiers and fiddler Peter Knight evolved into one of folk’s most inspired acts, exploring well-worn tunes in new and improvisatory ways