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Congratulations to Bala Desejo for winning the Best Newcomer category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024 for the album SIM SIM SIM on
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Congratulations to Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabate for winning the Fusion category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024 for their album The Sky is the Same Colour Everywhere on Real World Records

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Congratulations to Yungchen Lhamo དབྱངས༌ཅན༌ལྷ༌མོ། for winning the Asia & Pacific category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024 for the album One Drop of Kindness on Real World Records

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Congratulations to LANKUM for winning the Europe category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024 for their album False Lankum on Rough Trade Records

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Congratulations to 🌞Luzmila Carpio🌞 for winning the Americas category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024 for the album Inti Watana: El Retorno del Sol on ZZK Records

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Congratulations to Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy for winning the Africa & Middle East category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024 for their album O Yinne on Philophon Records

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Congratulations to Mostar Sevdah Reunion for winning the Best Group category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024 for their album Lady Sings the Balkan Blues on Snail Records

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Congratulations to Badiaa Bouhrizi for winning the Best Artist category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024 for the album KahruMusiqa on Akuphone

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Critically-acclaimed saxophonist and composer Jowee OmiciL aka Mr.BasH!💜 brings his ceremonial homage to Haiti’s successful 18th-century slave uprising to London’s legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club songlines.co.uk/news/revolutio…

Off the back of releasing her third album with the Sahra Halgan trio, in the latest issue of Songlines this incredible Somaliland singer and activist tells Daniel Brown the story of chance which played a massive role in her music career songlines.co.uk/features/sahra…

In the latest issue of Songlines we chat to Dele Sosimi about his time spent in the bands of Fela (where he was musical director) and Femi Kuti.

Dele's latest album, with current band The Estuary 21, is out now on Wah Wah 45s songlines.co.uk/features/fires…

A key artist in the development of Algerian chaabi and rai music, Maurice El Médioni, the boogie-woogie maestro, has passed away songlines.co.uk/news/obituary-…

Los Angeles psych-soul superheroes Chicano Batman follow genre-hopping fifth full-length with debut UK live dates songlines.co.uk/news/chicano-b…

To celebrate #InternationalRomaDay , explore our resource on Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Archives efdss.org/learning/resou…

Our May 2024 (#197) issue is out today. As usual, it's packed!, with a series of articles focused on the Middle East and North Africa, the winners of the Songlines Music Awards 2024, and lots of features, news, reviews and more.
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EFDSS Songlines Magazine Eliza Carthy MBE Interesting to see there is some intention to set up a database of cultural heritage to include performers. How in hades is this going to happen? We don’t all belong to EFDSS or MU or Equity. We are not all gigging for a living.

Pleased to receive the new Folk Focus newsletter from Songlines Magazine (you can sign up at songlines.co.uk/newsletter) – including a link to Eliza Carthy MBE’s thoughts in News of the Whirl songlines.co.uk/features/eliza…