Joseph Tawadros has managed to raise the bar yet again, as if the latter wasn’t already elevated enough. Permission To Evaporate completes a trilogy of…
Aussie Oud Maestro Shines Again
Author: Tony Hillier
Tony Hillier is an Australia-based freelance music writer, broadcaster, musician, MC and band leader. He writes album and concert reviews and feature articles for The Australian (the country’s only bona fide national newspaper) and Rhythms (Australia’s only dedicated national roots music magazine) and prepares/presents weekly programs for the national broadcaster (ABC) and community radio. He is also a member of the Transglobal World Music Chart (TWMC) panel.
A Stellar Strings Quartet
Two of the British Isles’ most renowned folk duos, joined by holy matrimony and the spirit of musical adventure, are an exemplar of stringed…
Ozomatli’s Place in the Sun
Ozomatli are guaranteed to be the life and soul of any festival, a band that’s truly earned its place in the sun. It’s no…
Milestones in Martin Carthy’s stellar career
Martin Carthy’s certainly not known as the guv’nor of British folk for nowt, as a richly deserved Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual BBC…
The new Chinese cultural revolution
They might not be the Central Politburo’s pin-up boys, but a brace of charismatic Beijing-based bands from far-flung regions of China that blend contrasting ethnic…
The flagbearers of traditional Irish folk
In the pantheon of Irish folk music, Lúnasa and Altan rank among the proverbial High Kings of Tara, adjacent to such immortal acts as The…
Meet the Iberian divas
The European music media has tagged them the new queens of flamenco and fado, the soulful Iberian counterparts of blues. They’re both extraordinary singers, blessed…
Moana’s on a mission for Maori culture
In her native New Zealand, Moana Maniapoto has long been beating the drum on behalf of Maori culture. In recent years, she has taken her…
Shellie Morris & The Songwomen on a mission
For millennia, song has been the principal conveyor of language and story in Aboriginal culture. Thanks to a visionary project hatched only a couple of…
Sierra Leone All Stars in the ascendancy
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars’ success story is one of the most inspiring in the annals of world music. It is a tale of indomitable…