Ashley Maher’s Music of Hope and Beauty
In the midst of stressful times, why not take a break, relax, sip some tea, and listen to Tree to Tree. This is Ashley Maher’s…
Fiddlers’ Bid and Frigg Double Bill at Celtic Connections 2018
Shetland’s Fiddlers’ Bid will headline a Main Auditorium concert at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Fiddlers’ Bid formed during playing lunchtime sessions at high school. Fiddlers’…
3MA at the Top of the Transglobal World Music Chart in January 2018
Anarouz (Six Degrees), the latest album by 3MA, a group featuring three high profile African musicians Ballaké Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi, Rajery, is the number…
Artist Profiles: Zein Al-Jundi
Zein Al-Jundi was born and raised in Damascus, Syria. She began singing professionally at the early age of five and over the next 12 years…
Artist Profiles: Yungchen Lhamo
Yungchen Lhamo was born near Lhasa, Tibet at a time when the isolated ‘forbidden kingdom’ was caught in the ravages of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.…
Artist Profiles: Yat-Kha
Yat-Kha started in 1991 in the hyper-industrial Siberian steel-belt city of Boris Yeltsin’s then home-town of Sverdlovsk. Albert Kuvezin – taking a holiday from the…
Artist Profiles: Yange Yange Trio
Yange Yange Arts is a Wagogo cultural group from the central Tanzanian region around the city of Dodoma. Tanzania has some 12 ethnic groups none…
Artist Profiles: Yulduz Usmanova
Uzbek singer Yulduz Usmanova was born on December 12, 1963 in Margilan, Uzbekistan. She was a unique phenomenon in the global pop culture of the…
Artist Profiles: Yalla
Yalla is one of the leading popular music groups in the former Soviet central Asian republic of Uzbekistan. The band is from Tashkent the capital…
Artist Profiles: Xuacu Amieva
Piper Xuacu Amieva was born October 12, 1954, in Llanes, Spain. He’s one of the acknowledged figures in the field of Asturian traditional music. His…
Artist Profiles: Wolfstone
Fiddler Duncan Chisholm and guitarist Stuart Eaglesham first met in the late 1980s at a pub session in Inverness, Scotland and formed a band for…