UPFRONT 06 Top of the World 08 The Source

Staples Jr Singers, In The Meadows, Meridian Brothers, Sufi Night, Moers Fest, Aidan O’Rourke 10 Introducing

Gambiana 14 Take Note

Romantica Milonguera 16 Spotlight

Jake Xerxes Fussell 18 Simon Says 19 Letters 21 Obituaries

FEATURES 22 Leyla McCalla 26 Ballaké Sissoko &

Derek Gripper 28 The Cavemen 30 Joe Boyd Island Culture 34 Malta 38 Rapa Nui 40 Channel Islands 42 Notting Hill Carnival

Lihou on the Channel Islands, p40

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REVIEWS 46 Africa 50 Americas 56 Europe 62 Middle East 63 Asia & Pacific 66 Fusion

REGULARS 70 My World

Billy Bragg 72 Beginner’s Guide

Kronos Quartet 75 Dispatch from

Naples, Italy 76 Festival Guide 79 Fireside Stories

Peter Gabriel 81 Eliza Carthy’s

News of the Whirl 82 Essential 10

Songlines Hidden Classics

Lankum’s Radie Peat at In The Meadows, p11

Jake Xerxes Fussell, p16

This issue we visit Rapa Nui , Naples, Malta, Belgium , Channel Islands, Dublin , Buenos Aires, Notting Hill…

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Għana performance in Malta, p34

Kronos Quartet perform Black Angels in 2013, p72

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