As part of David Byrne’s ‘Meltdown’ festival, one of flamenco’s leading lights, Estrella Morente, opened her concert standing solo on...
This is only the third year that Walthamstow Garden Party has lit up the North London borough, but it could...
WOMAD and Bristol have developed a tight-knit relationship. The festival has always hosted many bands from this southwestern city on...
Violons Barbares, as their name suggests, are indeed a wild trio. To say these guys are virtuosic would be an...
Hailing from Guinea, West Africa, master kora player N’Faly Kouyate took to Camden’s Jazz Café stage last night. Reminiscent of...
At the age of sixty-six, Kassé Mady Diabaté is one of the living greats of Malian music. His nickname Kassé derives from the...
Like most minorites, Garifuna people hardly ever make the news. The Garifuna people are six-hundred thousand souls who inhabit a...
From South Sudan, the world’s newest country, came Acholi Machon – and what a remarkable story they had to tell!...
Rhythm Passport was delighted to be offered an interview with Mauritanian singer and ardin player Noura Mint Seymali after her set –...
If contemporary Brazil had a voice, it would be Criolo’s. The São Paulo MC/songwriter brought not just the sound of...
On the last day of its 2015 edition WOMAD UK raised the curtain to present some hugely talented women artists...
The sun came out – and so did the WOMAD crowd, to enjoy some truly spectacular and brilliant performances from...