You just need three words to describe a Pascuala Ilabaca’s gig: alegría de vivir. The joy of life that infects...
Without so much as an introduction Angelique Kidjo and her musicians walked out on stage and embraced their instruments. As...
To demonstrate how much Namvula is absorbed in her music I shall recount an incident that occurred during her album...
Originating from Brazil, Badi Assad looks to push the boundaries of musical performance through a sense of freedom and experimentation...
The Senegalese Amadou Diagne and the Italo-Sudanese Amira Kheir mirrored two different aspects of Africa and its music, but the...
Rabindranath Tagore was the most important Bengali artist of the 19th and 20th centuries. He influenced and redefined not only...
Bebel Gilberto loves to be desired. She gives you an appointment, then lets you wait for her in company with...
Announced by a heavy downpour of Latin and African rhythms, Central and South American harmonies and lively up-tempo tunes played...
For the final night of the 12th London African Music Festival, we are treated to the high energy sound of...
Çigdem Aslan is a rising star in the revival of Rebetiko, the ‘Blues of the Aegean’, originally sung in the...
Many of us in the UK have memories of the iconic images of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990...
After the grand finale with the audience dancing to the unrestrained rhythms of the desert, then after the standing ovation...