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The full programme for Edinburgh’s Folk Film Gathering has been announced ... with all screenings including live music and storytelling. The event will begin with two preview events at North ...
Algerian-French singer/songwriter Nassim ... we were quite taken by Estonian Mari Kalkun's reimagining of her country's folk music using both the traditional kannel (much like a zither) and ...
Bab l'Bluz has been the brainchild of French musician Brice Bottin and Moroccan musician Yousra Mansoor since they first met in 2016 as part of a music collective in Morocco that was combining modern ...
France is expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials as tensions between Paris and Algiers escalate, the French presidential palace said Tuesday.
Algeria has sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in prison on charges of “undermining national unity”. A court in Dar El Beida, near Algiers, sentenced the author on ...
TUNIS, April 12 (Reuters) - Algeria protested on Saturday against France's detention of an Algerian consular agent over an alleged kidnapping of an Algerian citizen in France, the latest tension ...
French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has been ensnared in an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between Algiers and Paris, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison for undermining ...
Algiers: The 14th International Cultural Festival of Symphonic Music will kick off in Algeria from April 17 to 23, with the participation of 17 countries, including Venezuela as the guest of honor.
The hour-long Candlelight set included a selection of tracks from the band’s debut album Parachutes, their second album A ...
In 2019, Grapefruit Records released a collection of artists who shaped British folk music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The compilation album Strangers in the Room: A Journey Through the ...
When I was a kid, my dad and I would drive out to the fallow fields of British Columbia’s Fraser Valley so he could pull off to the side of the road and take photos of nothing. For decades, my ...
France's President Emmanuel Macron is urging Algeria to free an 80-year-old writer who was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison, following accusations he had undermined Algeria's ...