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,...
The cigarette was still burning between Mohamed Barsaoui’s lips when he got up from the table. There was gear waiting...
On 22 June 1948 the Empire Windrush tied up at Tilbury in Essex, carrying close to five hundred Caribbean migrants...
The polkas of Podlasie come with a warning from the people who play them: “dance to these the way you...
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...
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...
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...
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...