The Djoliba National Ballet, a veritable institution in their native Guinea, are currently back on stage with a new show, ...

Techno Parade, Paris’s annual procession of carnival floats pounding mega-decibels and explosive dance beats, wound up at Place de la Bastille early on Saturday night ...

On 6 July 2007, Senegalese m’balax idol Youssou N’dour made a radical departure from his usual style, opening the Montreux Jazz Festival with his Retour à Gorée Jazz Project.

One of the highlights of the 10th Gnawa Festival in Essaouira, Morocco, was the creation of Band of Gnawa, an ambitious project masterminded by one of the festival’s artistic co-directors, ...

Is there such a thing as the Malian blues? The question has been asked a thousand times.

With some forty concerts in its line-up this year, the 32nd edition of Angoulême’s "Musiques Métisses" (16 - 19 May) festival proved to be an intense experience.

A dozen talented young musicians got together in Central Brittany at the start of April this year. Their mission? To take part in the second session of the Kreizh Breizh Akadémi, a novel project...

Zydeco - the little brother of Cajun music, but played by black musicians -  emerged in French-speaking Louisiana in the 1930s. This accordion-led sound, more oriented towards the blues than white Cajun music, ...

Rokia Traore, one of the most popular artists to have emerged from Mali in recent years, has started experimenting with a more Afro-groove edge to her work. ...

One year ago, on 7 March 2006, Ali Farka Touré, the Malian “guitar hero”, died. In the small town of Niafunké, in the Timbuktu region, ...

A marathon week is in the making for Bélo. The Haitian singer-composer and winner of the RFI “Découvertes” Award landed in Paris in the early hours on Monday 5 February. ...

At the beginning of November, African music veteran Ray Lema, Cameroonian bassist Etienne Mbappé and French drummer Francis Lassus headed out to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, ...

Bélo, a talented singer, songwriter and composer from Haiti, triumphed at RFI’s “Découvertes” award ceremony staged in Douala, Cameroon, ...

Those who missed out on Serge Gainsbourg’s reggae period got a chance to make up for lost time last night at a special tribute organised at Glaz’Art, in Paris. ...

Between 18 and 20 September, Afro-American jazz diva Dee Dee Bridgewater will be taking to the stage at Le New Morning, in Paris, with the Malian musician Cheikh Tidiane Seck. ...

Music fans flocked to the Indonesian island of Bali between 24^th and 26^th August to enjoy an impressive array of electronica at the second edition of Junction. ...

The “Fnac Indétendances” festival brought happening indie sounds to the banks of the Seine on 29 July, wowing the crowds at the city’s summer beach known as “Paris Plage.” French act Jack The Ripper and Belgian group Venus ratcheted up the decibels down by the river.

Four days of concerts, an impressive musical line-up and record-breaking attendance figures: the 6^th Banlieue Rythme festival, staged in Senegal, in Dakar's north-eastern suburbs (4-7 May), ...

Now and again a truly unusual album surfaces on the music scene, leaving listeners wondering quite how it ever came to be made. The debut album by Baka Gbine, a group of Pygmy musicians from eastern Cameroon, ...

On his superb new album Fragile, French composer and harmonica virtuoso Jean-Jacques Milteau pursues his exploration of music from the U.S. He is now about to tour excerpts from the album, ...