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Festival of World Sacred Music, Fes, Morocco
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World Music Matters is RFI's weekly rendez vous with musicians making global beats.

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The last edition: Sunday 19 May 2013
Startijenn El-TaQa -   A fusion of North African and Celtic rhythms

Startijenn El-TaQa - A fusion of North African and Celtic rhythms

Startijenn means energy in the Breton language, and this young French band from Brittany in the north-west of France certainly ...

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Sunday 12 May 2013

Eurofonik festival celebrates the best of folk music

In World Music Matters today, RFI reports from the recent Eurofonik festival in Nantes – the only festival entirely devoted to folk ...

Sunday 28 April 2013

The joy of bows - the Tokso Folk String Quartet

Tokso Folk String Quartet - four talented musicians from Greece, Norway and France - talk about the joys of composing for each other and why the island of Crete lives and breathes folk music.

Sunday 21 April 2013

Canadian singer Mélissa Laveaux

Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Mélissa Laveaux speaks about her passion for killing and reinventing herself, as she brings out a new album Dying is a wild night.

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