What happens if the sun disappears? The question lingered over the stage at Viljandi Folk Festival on the morning of...
Interviews
For generations a woman in the Zawose family was allowed one instrument, the muheme, a small drum within the ngoma...
Karate Boogaloo have been playing together since they were schoolboys, in the same Melbourne high school maths class, which is...
Yesun-Erdene Bat was fifteen and in seventh grade at an ordinary school in Yeröö, a village in Selenge province in...
The cigarette was still burning between Mohamed Barsaoui’s lips when he got up from the table. There was gear waiting...
The polkas of Podlasie come with a warning from the people who play them: “dance to these the way you...
The Estonian diatonic accordion (lõõtspill) has four rows of keys and can play only in major. Tarmo Noormaa studied it...
In the Sambla villages near Bobo-Dioulasso, in south-west Burkina Faso, the balafon speaks: Sambla players use it to address people...
Olivier Araste does not travel light. Moving an eight-piece maloya ensemble from Réunion to the French mainland is its own...
Palestinian vocalist and musicologist Salwa Jaradat has spent years recovering voices that history almost buried. The women she went looking...
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...