“When you decide what you play you also decide what kind of life you lead.” Hélène Labarrière N’Diale is...
Two weeks have passed since the 34th edition of WOMAD UK, which was also the tenth anniversary of the festival’s residency...
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...