C O NTE NT S

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Top of the World CD

08

What’s New

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Folk Focus

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Introducing… Juanita Euka & LYRE LYRE

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Songlines Encounters Festival 2022

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Spotlight: Yungchen Lhamo

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Simon Says

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Letters

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Songlines Music Awards 2022 ˜is year’s nominees

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Lido Pimienta Talking tough with the Latin-pop visionary

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Iberi Raise a toast to this all-male Georgian choir

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El Khat Israel’s own garbage pail kids with a DIY aesthetic

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Maya Youssef At home with the lauded Syrian qanun player

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Frigg

Meet the Nordgrass vets celebrating 20 years

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Africa

46

Americas

50

Europe

57

Asia

58

Middle East

60

Fusion

64

Classical & Jazz

66

World Cinema

68

Live Reviews

“While following a herd of lemmings over a cliff might feel safer at the time, the end ain’t pretty…”

Nick Hobbs gets a cob on for onstage clichés, see p89

˜ntti Kokkola

REGULARS

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My World: Mukoma Wa Ngugi

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Beginner’s Guide to Annbjørg Lien

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Quickfire

75

Dispatch from Porto, Portugal

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My Instrument: Antonis Antoniou and his tzouras

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Gig Guide

Charis Panayiotou