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Habib Koité (photo: Margot Canton Lamousse) Should you cross Habib Koité wearing a furrowed brow, ambulating through his ten acre field, 25km from his home/studio/refuge in west Bamako, he’s probably working on a new album. With giant strides, he paces back and forth before returning to his iPad and Godin guitar, resting up on one of the rare trees giving shade under a burning Malian sun. He’ll grab his iPhone to listen to the melodic line he just composed and re-record another version. Habib’s creative juices might be in full flow, ...

Celebrating homegrown talent as well as prolific folk musicians from across the seas, the 2022 Port Fairy Folk Festival will see Weddings, Parties, Anything, Emma Donovan & The Putbacks, Kee’ahn and Baby et Lulu joined by Eric Bibb, Courtney Marie Andrews, Eilen Jewell and Mandolin Orange from the US, Scotland’s Elephant Sessions and the UK’s Jon Boden. Tickets are on sale now so snap yours up over at the PFFF website. Proudly presented by PBS 106.7FM Related

The Malian singer-songwriter Habib Koité is also one of his country’s leading guitarists. Daniel Brown reflects on the artist’s recordings and career to date

By Ian Worpole, Contributor Music Columnist Ian Worpole chronicles his return to the Big Apple Having spent a rowdy ten years in a cheap loft in Tribeca, New York City (Cheap! It wasn’t quite yet an oxymoron twenty years ago), with two small children and an irate landlord, it was time to move north to Woodstock, a quaint hamlet known for its arts colony and a certain concert that took place in 1964. We had, in fact, missed the glory days, when Bob Dylan holed up with The Band and produced The Basement Tapes and three or four of the greatest albums ever recorded, and Van the Man [Morrison] ...

Port Fairy Folk Festival unveils the first look at its 2022 lineup Emma Donovan Look out 2022, Port Fairy Folk Festival is back. While Miss ‘Rona threw a spanner in the works for the festival’s 2021 instalment, the cherished Port Fairy Folk Festival has announced a triumphant full-scale return in 2022.  The 45th iteration of the festival will welcome some of the best musicians from home and abroad to its sunny Victorian shores, including Baby et Lulu, the UK’s Jon Boden, Scotland’s Elephant Sessions, as well as a full bill of US artists including Court...