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What's going Sunday? (Grateful Dead members, TOPS, Bernie Fest, Youssou N'Dour, Everything is Terrible!, more)

3314 days ago
Brooklyn Veganphoto: GD50 in Santa Clara (more by Jay Blakesberg) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... TOPS, Puro Instinct, Jerry Paper @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Montreal's TOPS make... more info

Womad 2014: Youssou N'Dour - Senegal's minister of sound

3777 days ago
The TelegraphWomad festival headliner Youssou N'Dour tells Mark Hudson about his journey from grooves to government - and back again more info

Youssou N'Dour and Kaija Saariaho win 2013 Polar Music Prize

4220 days ago
The IndependentSenegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been awarded the 2013 Polar Music Prize, Sweden's most prestigious award for musicians.      more info

Readers recommend: songs about bravery – results

4470 days ago
Guardian MusicHas your suggestion made the playlist this week? Gather your nerves and find outThis week's playlist has been selected by Magicman.• My favourite song title this week was Jetplane Landing's There Is No Real Courage Unless There Is Fear. As commenta... more info

Womad 2012 day one, live: Jimmy Cliff, Hugh Masekela, Lo'Jo

4504 days ago
Guardian MusicWelcome to our coverage of Womad 2012. Stay tuned for news, views and reviews from the festival site as some of the biggest names in world music take to the stage11.44pm: Good morning, Caspar Llewellyn Smith here, and welcome to what is undoubtedly t... more info

Youssou N'Dour at Womad festival - video

4505 days ago
Guardian MusicYoussou N'Dour is performing at this weekend's Womad festival at Charlton Park, Wiltshire. To get you in the mood, here's a video of a young N'Dour at an earlier Womad festival more info

The Fes festival resonates in the real world | Mary Finnigan

4535 days ago
Guardian MusicFaouzi Skali founded Morocco's spiritual music festival, a haven of peace among the bloodshed across the Arab worldThe Moroccan philanthropist Faouzi Skali founded the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in 1994. For the past 12 years the programme ha... more info

From afrobeat to zouk: the Mauritanian home of rare African sounds

4558 days ago
Guardian MusicMohamed Vall's Saphire d'Or record store helps melt divisions in a still-segregated society – and helps people track down that half-remembered tune. Hear some gems belowTucked down a sandy alleyway in Nouakchott, the desert capital of Mauritania, M... more info

Neneh Cherry: 'Jazz can be the way you make love'

4570 days ago
Guardian MusicNeneh Cherry, who stormed into the 80s with Buffalo Stance, is back – with an avant-garde jazz album. She tells Jude Rogers why it took her so longNeneh Cherry sits in her manager's fashionable office, wearing a necklace made out of a mousetrap tha... more info

All aboard the Africa Express!

4582 days ago
Guardian MusicA collaboration of African and western musicians, Africa Express is now headlining festivals and planning a huge train tour of the UK this year. Damon Albarn and Baaba Maal talk to Caspar Llewellyn Smith'It's always felt like a journey on an African... more info

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