There is a historic town in southern Estonia, population 17000, that every July transforms into a global cultural hub. For...
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In 1969 a young Zulu musician named Sipho Mchunu heard about a white teenager in Johannesburg who could play Zulu...
Event Preview: WOMAD 2026 @ Neston Park (Corsham, Wiltshire; Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th July 2026)
After a fallow year and seventeen summers at Charlton Park, WOMAD moves to Neston Park near Corsham in north Wiltshire,...
On 22 June 1948 the Empire Windrush tied up at Tilbury in Essex, carrying close to five hundred Caribbean migrants...
For one long Bank Holiday Friday, a stretch of east London turned unmistakably verde-ouro. Boa Nova Festival, the capital’s first...
The Estonian diatonic accordion (lõõtspill) has four rows of keys and can play only in major. Tarmo Noormaa studied it...
Olivier Araste does not travel light. Moving an eight-piece maloya ensemble from Réunion to the French mainland is its own...
Brazilian music has lived in London for years through Jazz Cafe residencies, samba schools in Notting Hill, baile funk nights...
Africa Oyé returns to Sefton Park on 20 and 21 June, and Liverpool gets it back after a fallow year...
Katariina Tirmaste was teaching at a traditional music camp in Estonia five years ago when one of her students, Kärt...
A Bakhshi or an Ashiq, in the old Iranian tradition, walks from village to village with a saz across his...
The ka drum holds the centre of gwo ka practice in Guadeloupe: one player leads, the circle answers, and the...
In 2016, MANANA became Cuba’s first international electronic music festival, pairing contemporary club producers with Afro-Cuban folkloric musicians in Santiago...
Six years into Zenobia, Isam Elias needed another way to keep working. The practical reality of touring an electronic duo...
Halfway through Wednesday’s set, Marlon Williams sent the Yarra Benders offstage and sat down at the piano alone. What followed...
Congolese-British collective KDN (Kongo Dia Ntotila) have been quiet for a while. That ends on Saturday 23rd May when they...
Marseille was voting, the far right was closing in, and Babel Music XP moved through a city with all of that...
Every April, Tallinn becomes a place where the question “what is music for?” gets asked in a hotel conference room...
By the time La Linea Festival closes in London on Wednesday 6th May, someone will have danced through La Yegros’...
Andes Collective & Secret Gem lands at Fox & Firkin in Lewisham on Friday with Secret Gem Session Vol. 2,...
