world music

• Music / improvised music

  Way Out West(port)

  A weekend for the musically open-minded is coming to Malmesbury

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• Music / world music

  Bristol’s month in World Music – October 2025

  Celebrate Black History Month with some tasty African and Caribbean grooves

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• Music / world music

  Review: Beat Frequencies, St George’s – an atmosphere of meditative tranquility was instantly established.

  We could all understand why the traditional music of Bali has such a pull on these players

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• Music / Jazz

  I’m really going to miss cheese!

  It's goodbye to cheddar as percussion virtuoso Harriet Riley swaps Bristol for Bali

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• Music / world music

  Bristol’s month in World Music – August 2025

  It's Jamaican Independence Day and dub royalty is in town

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• Music / world music

  Bristol’s month in World Music – July 2025

  No WOMAD but plenty of local world music action to compensate us

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• Music / Ethiopique

  Review: Fairfield House Ethio-jazz Project, Bristol Fringe

  They succeeded in refreshing the sound, reviving it rather than simply preserving it.

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• Music / world music

  Bristol’s month in World Music – June 2025

  A reggae superstar, a Colombian master drummer and Ghanaian Gospellers

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