(headline image: DakhaBrakha at Womadelaide 2024 – Photo by Chris Lambie) The Australian event is WOMAD’s longest partnership and its longest-running festival in the same…
Having performed at Port Fairy Folk Festival on four occasions (once with Snake Gully and thrice with Kamerunga), Tony Hillier returned to Australia’s premier roots…
Echoes of Earth, describing itself as ‘India’s greenest music festival,’ wrapped up its debut Goa edition this month. See our coverage of its earlier Bangalore…
Rightly hailed as an influential band themselves, Talking Heads was also a band that absorbed influences. Their 1980 album Remain In Light incorporated rhythms, arrangements,…
For the traditional close of Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) in 2019, technical director Niall Macaulay pressed ‘Play’ on Sister Sledge hit ‘We Are Family’.…
In our annual photo essay from one of the world’s top jazz festivals, we share a range of musical highlights across genres. The Montreal International…
Loulé, Portugal – While some performances at the Med 23 Festival were lackluster (very few), the opportunity was to take refuge in the most intimate…
At 8:30 p.m. on Thursday night, a voice in Portuguese and another in English introduced a Portuguese band named after the French father of chemistry…
Paul Winter and The Paul Winter Consort: Paul Winter: saxophone; Eugene Friesen: cello; Henrique Eisenmann: piano; and Ray Nagem: organ. Paul Winter and The Paul…
Womadelaide 2020 was the last major event in Australia prior to pandemic lockdowns. In 2021, a series of seated evening concerts presented local acts at…