Zando no longer exists. The market at the centre of Kinshasa, a city inside the city, where hundreds of thousands...
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The London Choro Festival returns for its second edition this weekend, from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th October, at Copper...
It all began with a box nobody wanted. In 2004, digging for jazz and funk at Casablanca’s Derb Ghallef flea...
What happens if the sun disappears? The question lingered over the stage at Viljandi Folk Festival on the morning of...
Her grandmother had run out of stories for the night. Go to the cow pen, she told six-year-old Kasiva Mutua...
La Feria returns to Liverpool this October for its eighth edition, spreading five days of Latin American music, theatre, dance,...
In a house in Lomé, a woman kept a set of ceremonial pots she used for preparing potions for the...
Faris Ishaq‘s uncle had got hold of some reed cane from Jericho and asked Faris’s older brother to cut holes in...
For the fourth episode of our Musical Road to WOMEX, we head to a village room in southern Taiwan, where...
Four years ago Intibint started making a record she wasn’t sure anyone would fund. Last July she threw a fundraiser...
For the third episode of our Musical Road to WOMEX, we travel not only in place but also in time:...
For generations a woman in the Zawose family was allowed one instrument, the muheme, a small drum within the ngoma...
For the second episode of our Musical Road to WOMEX, we go from Caracas to Berlin by way of a...
Gelareh Pour and Brian O’Dwyer build each show live, on the spot, from a kamancheh, a voice, and a drum...
The ruins of Pompeii, Buffalo mozzarella from Caserta, the switchback drop of the Amalfi Coast, a sfogliatella still warm from...
It is Monday morning, checkout time at Grand Hotel Viljandi, and a German festival goer with his wristband still on...
There is a certain tenor a WOMAD stalwart comes to expect: a practiced routine, a beaten track past well-known landmarks,...
Benga runs on interlocking guitars and a rhythm that does not let up, the sound that owned Kenyan pop for...
Ten years is a long time to leave a dancefloor waiting. Buraka Som Sistema have spent most of that decade...
Karate Boogaloo have been playing together since they were schoolboys, in the same Melbourne high school maths class, which is...
