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...
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...
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,...
On 22 June 1948 the Empire Windrush tied up at Tilbury in Essex, carrying close to five hundred Caribbean migrants...
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...
In 2016, MANANA became Cuba’s first international electronic music festival, pairing contemporary club producers with Afro-Cuban folkloric musicians in Santiago...
Congolese-British collective KDN (Kongo Dia Ntotila) have been quiet for a while. That ends on Saturday 23rd May when they...
Every April, Tallinn becomes a place where the question “what is music for?” gets asked in a hotel conference room...
By the time La Linea Festival closes in London on Wednesday 6th May, someone will have danced through La Yegros’...