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...
Yesun-Erdene Bat was fifteen and in seventh grade at an ordinary school in Yeröö, a village in Selenge province in...
There is a historic town in southern Estonia, population 17000, that every July transforms into a global cultural hub. For...
In 1969 a young Zulu musician named Sipho Mchunu heard about a white teenager in Johannesburg who could play Zulu...