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From France, Nigeria

A founding member of the French hip-hop collective Saian Supa Crew, Féfé is best known as rapper and singer Fe2 or Feniski. He has now emerged as a s&hellip » read more

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From Australia

Fabio Robles and Ana Andre are recognised as the foremost exponents of Argentinian tango in Australasia. Fabio arrived in Australia in 1981 having alr&hellip » read more

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From United Kingdom

When Faithless released their first single, ?Salva Mea?, in 1995, they raised the stakes for other dance music acts. Here was a song with a huge range&hellip » read more

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From Pakistan

Nusrat's former understudy deserves his own limelight WOMAD has always been a welcoming territory for qawwali singers. Not only was Nusrat Fateh Ali &hellip » read more

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From Albania

Albania's first brass dance band bring an utterly fresh and exciting touch to the ancient and impassioned music of Albania, Europe's best-kept secret,&hellip » read more

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From Romania

Seven years ago, the Romanian group The Taraf of Haidouks was the sensation of the 1991 Rivermead festival, with crowds demanding unending renditions &hellip » read more

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From Burkina Faso

Biography by Andy Morgan, July 2000: Past their twentieth anniversary and still going strong, Farafina demonstrate that rhythm in west Africa is a lan&hellip » read more

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From Iraq

In the Arab world the word maqam (meaning situation or place) refers to a musical mode suffused with a particular mood or feeling. In the classical tr&hellip » read more

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From Norway

Free jazz takes a holiday in the Balkans While farmers' markets have become a ten-a-penny sighting, pitching up everywhere from New Orleans to Nempnet&hellip » read more

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From United States

In a time where many of the great rhythm-and-blues acts from the past seem to be fading fast into touring ghost band status, The Fatback Band has mana&hellip » read more

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From New Zealand

Smouldering and soulful dub visionaries There's almost 8,000 miles between Wellington, New Zealand and the Jamaican capital of Kingston, but when you &hellip » read more

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From Mali

Oumou Sangare's old backing singer takes her place in the sun Over the past 25 or so years, Malian music has dominated how Europe hears West African &hellip » read more

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From Algeria

Back in the late 1990s, rai music, that infectious hedonistic North African form of rock ?n? roll from Algeria, was undergoing what you might call a m&hellip » read more

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From France, Iraq

Biography supplied by management, March 2004: Fawzy is born between two rains at Basra (Iraq) towards 1950. He studied at the Music Institute of Bagh&hellip » read more

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From Spain

Felisa Vega recorded her first album Sueños y Alma and since then has not stopped performing throughout Extremadura and Spain. A singer living in Cáce&hellip » read more

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From Spain

This dynamic band from Asturias plays wildly exuberant music firmly rooted in the instantly recognisable bagpipe and fiddle-driven Celtic style of nor&hellip » read more

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From Nigeria

The world is full of celebrity offspring, yet it is almost impossible to think of one who lives up to expectations to the same degree as Femi Kuti, so&hellip » read more

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From Brazil

åo Paulo University. She has taught Body-Awareness and Afro-Brazilian Dance Workshops in many different situations, always setting out to encourage an&hellip » read more

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From Brazil

Fernanda is an extremely experienced and accomplished choreographer and dance tutor from Brazil. She has over 20 years of experience in teaching and &hellip » read more

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From United Kingdom

Biography By Andy Morgan, July 2002: Globalisation often stretches the imagination. Try and picture the King of Swaziland settling down to an educat&hellip » read more

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From South Africa

With their recent FNB Sama nomination for So Many Prophets, Fetish have proven to the South African music industry that a left-of-centre band has what&hellip » read more

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From United States

When Cajun met indie-rock "It's one of the most beautifully melodic records I've heard all year. There's an artistry to it that enables them to step &hellip » read more

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From Italy

2001 biography: I Fiamma Fumana nascono da un'intuizione di Alberto Cottica (fisarmonicista nei Modena City Ramblers), Fiamma, (un'affascinante canta&hellip » read more

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From United Kingdom

Ever-eclectic sounds from the musical maverick It may be a decade since his explosion onto the UK music scene (a multi-platinum album in Maverick A S&hellip » read more

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From Sweden

As standard-bearers of the new folk idiom, young Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg strike clean harmonies atop simple guitar, autoharp and k&hellip » read more

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From United States

The king of conjunto made his first WOMAD festival appearance 12 years ago. His rippling accordeon style, jazzy runs and seamless blend of rock with t&hellip » read more

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From Australia, Bahamas, United Kingdom

The FlameOz Fire Show is an unforgettable, awe-inspiring experience. A high-impact blend of beauty, dance, power and energy combined with feats of s&hellip » read more

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From Ireland (Irish Republic)

?Sheer musical magic?.stunning technique, impossibly agile rhythm work and virtuoso flights of jazzy improvisation add up to one of the most enthralli&hellip » read more

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From Sicily

Mediterranean notes without borders. A re-reading music, as well as being a tribute for the period, often contains the genes of an unspoken past, a pa&hellip » read more

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From United States

2001 Biography "Rescue me and take me in your arms....RESCUE ME!" How many unstable angst-ridden adolescents have had their sanity rescued on the dan&hellip » read more

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From Brazil, United States

For those who don't already know, forró is the hip-swiveling, dancefloor-filling, rural party music of Brazil's northeastern states. And Forro in the &hellip » read more

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From Australia

?More Metallica than Mozart ? the first string quartet to have inspired moshing and crowd surfing? The Sydney Morning Herald Eclectic Electric Stri&hellip » read more

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From Angola, France

Born in Valence in the south of France in 1969, Frédéric Galliano developed a great passion for music in his teens. The young music fan quickly acquir&hellip » read more

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From Dominican Republic

Francis Angol hails from the Dominican Republic and has worked in dance for over fifteen years. This performer, tutor, Assistant Artistic Director/Ch&hellip » read more

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From United Kingdom

Biography by Andy Morgan, June 2002: Francis Dunnery is man who?s been to the very heart of showbiz Babylon and returned with a sackload of gruesome &hellip » read more

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From Australia

A traditional Pitjantjatjara man from Australia's central desert, Frank Yamma writes brutally honest songs of alcohol abuse, cultural degradation, res&hellip » read more

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From Norway, United Kingdom

Enthralling Nu-Nordic folk summit An Edinburgh kitchen table is perhaps an unlikely place for an international summit, but it's where the historical &hellip » read more

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From Finland, Norway

Kaustinen, a cluster of villages on the slow-winding River Perho in the western Finnish region of Ostrobothnia, has long been famous for its fiddlers.&hellip » read more

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From Angola, Ghana, United Kingdom

Information provided by artist management, July 2002: Frititi Traditional African Drumming and Dance Company HISTORY Witnessing a world where there &hellip » read more

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From Australia

Band's own biography from Sue Arlidge Arts Management - June 2000 Australian music sensation, FRUIT are on their way to becoming one of the biggest &hellip » read more

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From Switzerland, United States

This unlikely mix of naughty New York glamour and Swiss countryside naivete throws up cultural clashes, polyglot puns, improbable balancing acts and f&hellip » read more

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From United Kingdom

An audio-visual barrage of amphetamine intensity, Fun^Da^Mental hit the stage and explode into a tumbling ball of fury that takes on all-comers with i&hellip » read more

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From United Kingdom

A Reading based musical collective comprising of vocalist and songwriter Dionne Williams, Richard Quittenton on bass, producer Lawrence Green on keys,&hellip » read more

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From United Kingdom

FWF is a global pastiche of rhythms and sounds, fusing musical elements of Latin, African, Indian, Arabic and Caribbean with breaks, beats and grooves&hellip » read more

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From Australia

One of the nation's most respected live reggae acts, Fyah Walk from Byron Bay has a uniquely Australian roots reggae flavour that fuses authentic Virg&hellip » read more


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