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WOMAD announces first names for 2024
Amadou & Mariam, Sampa The Great, Baaba Maal and Yungchen Lhamo amongst first names announced for this year's WOMAD festival
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Spotlight: Africa Oyé 2022
Liverpool’s celebration of African music and culture returns to Sefton Park this year to commemorate three decades of good music. Jim Hickson reports
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ZEE MELA 2018 comes to London
The Zee London Mela comes to Southall Park for the first time in its 16-year history – the epicentre of Europe's oldest Asian community
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Smithsonian Folkways Records celebrates 75 years
Iconic imprint marks diamond jubilee with special live events and series of commemorative reissues
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BCUC: Trusting in Love
Diane Coetzer talks to the South African band BCUC who are exporting their traditional Soweto music across the globe and mesmerising audiences, one transcendental show at a time
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Cumbia Legends Manzanita y Su Conjunto Embark on Their First UK Tour
The legendary group who paved the way for Peruvian cumbia in the 1960s have set off on their month long tour of the UK this week
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Letting The Light In
Kings Place’s new artist-in-residence talks about the programme she’s curated for Scotland Unwrapped, involving poetry, birdsong, folklore and choral euphoria
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WOMAD 2023 Artists Announced
Everyone’s favourite world music field trip is back for another round this summer, as the first artists are announced for WOMAD 2023
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Furrow Collective On Moon Safari
Critically-acclaimed UK folk quartet take new lunar-loving album out on tour this winter
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Soema Montenegro: “My music can’t be pinpointed or catalogued, I’m very experimental”
Soema Montenegro tells Silvia Rothlisberger about the ancestral connections and magical realism influencing her new album. “I’m not transmitting musical notes, but sensations,” she explains
