world music Archives

Loreena McKennitt, folk singer and activist

31/08/2018

The Canadian Celtic diaspora (Loreena McKennitt) and the New World online...

Nomadic music and the convergence of style – Tengger Cavalry

05/03/2018

Sometimes, the tropes of contemporary Western culture can combine with the music of other eras and nations to turn up unexpected results....

Live at Ronnie Scott’s: Nitin Sawhney

01/12/2017

Heavyweight vinyl, heavyweight venue, heavyweight talent...

Portraits: Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Stephen O’Malley

15/09/2017

Sunn O))) guitarist and sonic adventurer Stephen O'Malley on his latest find: Dhrupad Music...

Loitered Lens: Womadelaide 2017

02/05/2017

After 25 years, Womadelaide still surprises. Photos from 2017's edition...

Slippers and Chardonnay Time? (Womadelaide Epilogue)

27/04/2017

25 years of festivals proves that, despite grumbles from the old 'uns, Womadelaide knows best....

Sunday Sparkles Sweetly in the Rain (Womadelaide 2017)

17/04/2017

Every festival draws a downpour - even in Southern Australia. Womadelaide's dreich day....

Sore Feet and Shambolic Frontmen at Womadelaide

10/04/2017

The scale and extent of Womadelaide can be punishing. Happily, the entertainment is worth the pain....

Womadelaide Walkies: Saturday Footmash

06/04/2017

Can an old fella still handle festivals? Fruitbats and foot care at Womadelaide...

Womadelaide Walkabout (Part Three)

31/03/2017

Clashes, odd formatting and muscle twinges get put aside for Oumou Sangare at Womadelaide...

Loitered Lens: Beyond the Beat at the Royal Albert Hall

26/03/2017

Previews of Julio Etchart's photography from the Beyond the Beat exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall...

Seven Stages of Sunny Fun: WOMADelaide

11/02/2017

Meet you under the Morton Bay figtrees. Womadelaide preview...

Paisley Prints and Polyrhythms: Goat (Live at The Coronet)

23/10/2016

Witchdoctors, Crusaders, Curses. Goat bring the hudu to the Coronet...

Loitered Lens: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016 (Part Two)

14/08/2016

Photographs of folk in the fens at Cambridge Folk Festival 2016...

Loitered Lens: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016

09/08/2016

Colours and curios from the UK's premier folk event - Cambridge Folk Festival, photos....

Dining out on Legba’s Feast (Vodun, The Lexington)

09/05/2016

More than soulful, Vodun are spiritual. The heavy psych trio shift paradigms at the Lexington...

Something of a mixed bag: Food Chain [London Afrobeat Collective]

05/06/2015

I can hear this on an sunny afternoon whilst the crowd are still working out the kinks from the night before, but headlining material it ain’t....

Ethno World at Tandem Folk Festival

27/05/2015

Ethno World returns to the UK to host one of their globally renowned music camps ...

Tinariwen : Emmaar

28/01/2014

Emmaar is a journey narrative, a walk with the Tuareg nomads through their desert home....

Womad 2013

09/08/2013

Has the cross pollination of sound led to a syncretic culture? True to form, WOMAD 2013 poses as many questions as it answers....

Manu Chao – Coronet,UK 23/10/10

23/10/2010

While many can answer the question of who the diminutive French/Spanish Singer Manu Chao is, for the general population the extent to which he is globally huge is unknown. Let's be frank, Manu...

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