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 Celebrating Sanctuary, London: Eliza Carthy teams up with Refugee musicians to create a set specially commissioned by Radio 3 and performed at this Refugee Festival. |
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 On Your Street: Discover the music of the world on your doorstep. Try out the local venues suggested by visitors to this website. |
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 Angélica Lopez, London: 'The band I was playing with, Orquesta Original de Cartagena won a competition to represent Colombia at the Music Village festival in London.' |
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 Abdul Tee-Jay, Sierra Leone: 'I wanted to record this album just to keep palm wine music alive'. |
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 Dele Sosimi, London: 'See photos from Dele Sosimi's Fela Kuti tribute gig at the Fridge in London.' |
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 Dana Codorean Berciu
- Romanian folk / world fusion / klezmer: 'This great singer, our national treasure, would go to the river to wash the gypsies' shirts' |
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 Little George Sueref - London: 'Once I joined them, I knew there was no going back. There were no more day jobs.' |
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 Abdullah Chhadeh - Arabic / Middle Eastern: 'I started learning the qanun at the age of 22 with a master musician called Salim Sarwet' |
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 Azad Zahawy - Kurdish: 'I grew up in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan in a small city called Khanaqin, which is near the border with Iran.' |
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 Reem Kelani - Palestinian: 'My parents were extremely supportive of my music then, my father even had a piano shipped from England.' |
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 Rachel McLeod - world fusion / classical / jazz: 'What triggered all that off was my early school days, when a visiting music teacher left a big impression on me.' |
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 Mosi Conde, Traditional Manding: 'We started to travel all around Guinea, playing in various places, doing all sorts of functions such as weddings, soirées and also gigs in clubs' |
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 Ali Slimani, Rai fusion: 'It was a rai dub album and Sinéad and Natasha Atlas were guests, as well as all the Invaders of the Heart.' |
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 Adesose Wallace, Traditional African / Afro-Beat: 'I finished school in 1967 and started going out to clubs where bands play, and I became a big fan of one called The Heartbeats.' |
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 Ahmed Mukhtar, Iraqi: 'Iraq has a very rich musical culture and as a child there I always used to listen to famous oud players and singers' |
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 Sophie Solomon, Klezmer: 'When I lived in Moscow, as part of the third year of my degree course, I had a residency at a club called Propaganda' |
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 Athena Andreadis, Greek / World Fusion: 'Our music’s grounded in Greece but the central sound is infused with other cultures and musical styles' |
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 Abdullah Mufa - Malay: 'I would say Malay music has got its own blues kind of scale which is not exactly "the blues", but it's got the feel of a lament.' |
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 Billy Amstell - Klezmer/Jazz: 'We'd get to say Hoxton Town Hall (what a joint!) we'd play and they couldn't understand how a kid like me could read orchestrations.' |
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 Beena Valembia, Indian: '...but I've changed it into 'You have come into my life like a mountain, breaking things around the house and causing trouble' |
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 Ahmed 'Hudeydi' Ismail Hussein, Somalian folk
: 'I heard an Arabic man playing an oud. I liked it and knew I wanted to learn how to play.’ |
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 Amara Sheik, London: 'We perform for the Somali community in the UK at weddings, parties and festivals.’ |
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 Barak Schmool, African/Latin/Jazz: '..if you hear something that you don't understand and you're a smart, creative musician, you want to know more about it.’ |
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 Sirishkumar, Indian / World fusion: 'I was so touched by the tabla that all my life I wanted to play music driven by its energising beats.’ |
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 Malo Sonko, Mandinka Drumming: 'If I can't play I have to go somewhere where I canm. Drums are my medicine - music is my medicine.’ |
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 Modeste Hugues, Malagasy: 'Though I left Betroka as a young man, Malagasy music is embedded in my heart - it's in my blood. It keeps me cool and happy.’ |
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 Sonti Mndebele, South African: 'It was my dream to be a lead singer so I’d watch all the lead performers, especially Miriam Makeba and model myself on them’ |
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 Danny Shine - Jewish / Klezmer: 'We all sang round the table on a Friday every week to see the Sabbath in....' |
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 Davide Giovannini - Afro-Cuban drums: 'I went deeply into it - not as deeply as madness, but quite deep'... |
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 Dave Woodhead - South African / Kwela: 'By way of giving the lips a break from the trumpet, I’d play a few Spokes Mashiyane tunes on penny-whistle.' |
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 Bosco De Oliviera - Brazilian: 'I started the London School of Samba with Alan Hayman. It's a great thing as it's still going on with other samba schools springing up' |
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 Jummy's Hide-out - Nigerian Afro-beat: 'Jummy plays like a Lagos joint....' |
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 Yusuf Mahmoud - Afghan: 'We are a drip of water which has been separated from the sea...' |
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 The Stratford Rex, London - Kwaito: '..break dancing, body popping, karate chopping, flick flacks ...It's choreography of the highest order.' |
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 Ritu Sharma - Indian / Punjabi: '... I’m starting to realise that the group is quite a worldwide thing.' |
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 Yogeswaran - Indian / Karnatic: 'Even though I travel the world... I always take time to return to my root.' |
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 Lukax Santana - Chilean / South American: 'Pinochet's military coup of 11th September, 1973, ended that. I spent a year in jail...' |
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 Joseph Nsubuga - Ugandan / East Africa: 'I dug the club music so much that I just took the traditional music for granted...' |
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 Vanya - Bronislav Krawczyk - Roma / Polish / gypsy folk: '...it reminds me of my childhood back in Poland when I first heard my grandparents play the tune.' |
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 Téa Hodzic - Balkan: '... it brings back memories of beautiful days I had in Sarajevo, of all my friends who are there, of my first love...' |
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 Tara Jaff - Kurdish:'I just totally fell in love with an instrument when somebody lent me a record 'Renaissance of the Celtic Harp'...' |
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 Errol Linton - Blues / Reggae: 'It's a Brixton blues, that's all I'll say on it.' |
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 George Brade - Montserratian: 'I make and tune all
the pans for the band...' |
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 Usifu Jalloh - Sierra Leonian: 'I've learnt other styles, but I love to play High Life - it's nice upbeat music, pop music in the traditional sense' |
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 Abdelkadar Saadoun - Algerian / ¸é²¹Ã¯ : '¸é²¹Ã¯ means opinion - my opinion, your opinion - freedom of expression. What's inside my heart comes out.' |
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