This Month we are teaming up with Upstairs At The Ritzy’s night JUJU to put on a club night packed...
We’re backstage at WOMAD 2016 drinking mint tea with Kel Assouf, a group of musicians who describe themselves as playing...
The Omara Portuondo & Diego El Cigala concert at the Barbican Hall to celebrate Portuondo’s 85th birthday and 70-year musical...
In 1998, Victor Tavares, known as Bitori, released an album of what is considered to be the very best Funana...
The Grammy award winning group Konono No. 1 was formed in Congo in the late 1960s. Their distinctive sound is...
More like The Brother from planet Niburu… The Brother Moves On begun their Jazz Café headline show with a spoken...
The Grit Orchestra was an unusual treat for the WOMAD 2016 audience on the Open Air stage on Friday afternoon....
If baile funk has invaded Europe and become a thing on the Old Continent too, you need to look at...
It’s been a few years since Konono No 1 first burst onto the WOMAD scene straight from the streets of...
In a gig that oozed class and revitalised my Sunday, Sidestepper brought the verve of late night Candelaria to a...
I recently spoke via email with Franketienne about Haitian music through an intermediary, his wife Marie-Andree. Franketienne is Haiti’s greatest...
[chimpy_form forms=”5″] They invited their fans singing “come see us play”. So we did it and enjoyed every single minute of it. Sidestepper...