C O NTE NT S
06
Top of the World CD
08
What’s New
14
Folk Focus
16
Introducing… Juanita Euka & LYRE LYRE
18
Songlines Encounters Festival 2022
19
Spotlight: Yungchen Lhamo
20
Simon Says
21
Letters
22
Songlines Music Awards 2022 ˜is year’s nominees
26
Lido Pimienta Talking tough with the Latin-pop visionary
30
Iberi Raise a toast to this all-male Georgian choir
34
El Khat Israel’s own garbage pail kids with a DIY aesthetic
36
Maya Youssef At home with the lauded Syrian qanun player
40
Frigg
Meet the Nordgrass vets celebrating 20 years
44
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
70
My World: Mukoma Wa Ngugi
72
Beginner’s Guide to Annbjørg Lien
74
Quickfire
75
Dispatch from Porto, Portugal
77
My Instrument: Antonis Antoniou and his tzouras
79
Gig Guide
Charis Panayiotou