Saharan blues never sounded so rocky! This Toulouse-based group plays with spirit and energy, and for a trio their sound...
Month: August 2015
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!...