Margareth Menezes, an icon of Afro-Brazilian music and Salvador’s carnival, talks to Oleno Netto about her European tour and her plans as Brazil’s new Minister of Culture
Folk & Festivals special featuring the most exciting new names in folk music, our extensive UK Festival Guide and an interview with Brazil’s Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes
After years of listening to traditional music and protest songs, Björk and Portishead, one of Portugal’s most exciting new singers tells Gonçalo Frota how she created a world all her own
With Cowley Road Carnival returning for the first time in five years, Fred Waine takes a trip to Oxford’s melting pot
The Guatemalan singer-songwriter tells Catalina Maria Johnson about her determination to represent women and carry the knowledge of her Indigenous heritage through music. “It’s a revolutionary act,” she confides
Olivia Cheves speaks to composer and musician Laura Cannell about her compulsion to make music, why she had to find her own traditions and why she’d love to record an album in an aircraft hangar
Belgian trio Avalanche Kaito, led by Burkinabé griot Kaito Winse, have driven their post-punk assaults to combustible extremes on their latest album
New Folk Special – into the hinterlands of modern folk with Laura Cannell, Daisy Rickman, Landless, Malin Lewis, Ian Lynch, Jacken Elswyth, Goblin Band and more
Margareth Menezes – from Carnival Queen to Brazil’s Minister of Culture
UK Festival Guide – extensive guide to the best UK festivals this summer
Avalanche Kaito – plotting the evolution of the Belgian-Burkinabe trio
Sara Curruchich – taking Guatemala’s Indigenous culture to the world stage
Sväng – the Finnish harmonica quartet are turning 20
Frank Cottrell-Boyce – the British screenwriter and author shares the soundtrack of his life
Festiwal Re:tradycja – we find out about eastern Polish folk traditions at the Lublin festival
+ 15-track Top of the World album (CD & download)
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