Thirty-one bands. Twenty-five countries. Three nights where Mongolian throat-singing, Congolese electro-punk and Occitan polyphonic percussion share the same city programme....
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Yeison Landero still plays cumbia in the same way he learnt it as a child in San Jacinto, a small...
Event Preview: Brick Lane Jazz Festival 2026 (London; Thursday 23rd April to Sunday 26th April 2026)
Brick Lane Jazz Festival returns for its fifth edition across 12 stages in Brick Lane and Shoreditch, keeping the walkable...
Roberta Gulisano‘s songs begin in Sicilian dialect and in the daily life of a small town in the province of...
Alum Alu formed in Riga, Latvia in 2020, when borders slammed shut and movement gave way to whatever could be...
Estonian bagpipes looped through effects processors, layered over acid basslines generated by Roland TB-303 clones. That is the sound at...
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What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow carries a time-shifting pull, placing traditional bluegrass back in the hands of...
Ciranda Elétrica lands at Brixtonia Lounge on Saturday 22 November, turning 35 Brixton Station Road into a North Brazilian and...
Nusantara Beat didn’t form around a manifesto. It began with a shared sense of curiosity: six musicians in Amsterdam reaching...
Being used to seeing João Selva with the usual traces of touring life, we noticed straight away that WOMEX in...
In a sure tonic for the winter blues Oumou Sangaré graces the stage of The Queen Elizabeth Hall this November...
Twenty years on, it feels right to call Movimientos family. What began in 2005 as a small gathering of friends...
November in Riga arrives with that cold, blue light that hangs low over the Daugava. You walk through the centre,...
WOMEX opens tonight, and our Musical Road to WOMEX 2025 reaches its final stop: the city hosting it all. After...
With WOMEX opening just one day away, our Musical Road to WOMEX reaches Finland: its far north, where voice, silence,...
With WOMEX opening in just two days in Tampere, our Musical Road to WOMEX 2025 closes in both time and...
With WOMEX 2025 only days away, our Musical Road to WOMEX reaches one of its very last stops… And we’re...
Seven months after releasing their debut Ghoyoum, Toronto’s Kazdoura arrive at Oslo Hackney on Sunday 19 October with momentum built...
Bristol’s riotous seven-piece Ushti Baba return this weekend with the launch of their new album Flora, Fauna, Fight & Feast,...
With WOMEX just a week away, the sixth chapter of our Musical Road to WOMEX heads to Taranto with Yarákä,...
