A world of music, arts and dance awaits at the world’s festival this year. Charlton Park will once again be visited by artists and performers from round the globe, for an extra special celebration in honour of the festival’s 40th birthday. Six stages will host over 150 acts across the…

Today, London-based Bengali composer, producer and sarod player Soumik Datta launches Silent Spaces, a brand-new multimedia project shaped in collaboration with his brother, the Award-winning filmmaker Souvid Datta. Silent Spaces is a 6-part series of videos that “sees the brothers join a diverse team of British Asian, black and ethnic…

The 2017 edition of the K-Music Festival is all about collaborations. It aims to show how diverse, innovative and dynamic South Korean contemporary music is; how it can be rooted in its own old tradition, yet open to the rest of the world and the future. A perfect example of…

[chimpy_form forms=”5″] They invited their fans singing “come see us play”. So we did it and enjoyed every single minute of it. Sidestepper brought their Afro-Colombian groove to WOMAD Festival and it was simply “chevere!” [justified_image_grid ng_gallery=261]   A few minutes later, we witnessed the brilliant 30-year reunion of Songhai – kora king Toumani…

For the fourth year in a row and five consecutive days, the London International Arts Festival showed its audience how to amalgamate distant cultures (like Indian Carnatic tradition and afro/Venezuelan jazz) with the London social fabric. Artists and bands from around the world musically interacted on East and North-East London…