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A Spell in Time
  Groundbreaking Bulgarian performing arts company A Spell in Time can take you from a Maiden's Love Spell (which will genuinely terrify any men in the audience) to a Hero's battle with just a story, a song, an autoharp and two gudoulkas (Bulgarian nail fiddles). Founded by British-Bulgarian storytel ...
 
Abdullah Chhadeh
  Syrian composer Abdullah Chhadeh didn't start playing the Qanun (Arabic plucked zither) until the age of 20, but knew immediately that it was the instrument for him. "I was playing the oud at a concert which featured a qanun player. I watched him all night, and nearly forgot what I had to play... ...
 
Acquah Brothers
  Teenage brothers Victor and George Acquah mix gospel and jazz and trace the music back from the southern states of America to its African roots.

They were born in Britain to parents who came from Ghana. "My main thing is singing," says Victor. "When I was small my m ...

 
Ademola Akintola
  Ademola Akintola has a calmness and kindness that strikes you immediately. Setting out at eighteen from his native Nigeria to travel the whole of Africa (it took five years), Akintola is a visual artist who has always gone his own way just for adventure's sake. He says of that epic journey "I wan ...
 
Africa Jambo
  Kawele Mutimwanwa was discovered aged 18 years and has been a professional musician ever since. "My mother ran a bar, so I used to go play guitar to the customers. One day these people came and one of them was a musician. He said, 'You can come to play in our band!' They gave me the day, and I ...
 
African Egomei Band
 

The Egomei band comprises eight musicians, over seven languages, an array of both modern and traditional instruments and music inspired by North, South, East and West African culture and tradition.

The manager of the group George Ocloo explains, " ...

 
Akash Sultan
 

Akash Sultan is only 28 years old, but has already established himself as a musician to be taken seriously. Born in the UK but brought up in Sylhet, in northern Bangladesh, Sultan combines traditional Bengali music with studio dance music techniques to create a unique sound whic ...

 
Al-Babilly
 

Asked how long he practices, Alfred George Al-Babilly proudly displays the indentations on his arm caused by continual positioning of his lute "I can play for hours and not even realise" he declares.

Born in Baghdad to a Christian family, Alf ...

 
Al-Zaytouna
  Al-Zaytouna is a UK based Palestinian Dabke dance group, that aims to provide diverse audiences with the opportunity to experience Palestinian Dabke in performances, workshops and classes. Dabke is the national dance of Palestine. Originally, the inhabitants of the Levant lived in houses built f ...
 
AlasVALS
  The brainchild of Argentinean singer Silvia Demetilla, alasVALS are a folk/trip-hop experimental collective based in London and Buenos Aires. The core members joining Silvia are David Aguirre, who controls the programming, synthesizers, keyboards and arranging, and violinist Natalie Sedgwick, but th ...
 
Alexander D Great
  With Alexander D Great you may as well ask what he hasn’t done, as try and list all the things he has done! Notting Hill Carnival, the BBC, Cambridge Folk Festival, Ealing Jazz Festival, The Lyric Theatre, and hundreds of schools and venues have had the Great experience.

 
Alusine Sillah
  Arriving in the UK Alusine Sillah quickly found his feet, making plans to start new batik and tie-dye work. Trained by his father in Sierra Leone, Alusine says "I really love this tradition, because that's what my father did and he raised me in this kind of work. So I believe there is something in ...
 
Amabutho
  South African acapella group "Amabutho" (or gathering of regiments) is arguably Britain's best Isicathamiya ensemble and has performed throughout the UK, USA, Europe and Africa. The soft sounds of Isicathamiya, later popularized globally by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the meatier Imbube are forms t ...
 
Amanzi Healing Foundation - Asafo Gyata
  Poet, singer , drummer and martial artist Asafo Gyata always knew he wanted to do something creative. Asafo, whose parents are from Dominica, was brought up in Hampshire, but for a long time creativity seemed just a dream. Although he did in fact write one song when he was 13, it wasn't until he m ...
 
Ambaibo
  Combining Andean traditional music with contemporary influences Ambaibo is a band that presents itself as a community that wishes to integrate their Bolivian roots with the global world. Seven musicians from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Argentina are currently Ambaibo’s members. All of them were alre ...
 
Amber Khokhar
  As a visual artist who specializes in ceramic decoration that is deeply informed by traditional arts, I view my aesthetic as the product of a cross-cultural journey. I was born in Lahore, Mughal capital of Pakistan but have been based in London since the tender age of 2 where I came of age steeped ...
 
Ameer Khan
 

The brothers Ustad Haji Ameer Khan and Ustad Ali Hafeez Khan come from one of the Indian sub-continent's most ancient and respected musical families. Since coming to Britain in 1991, they have run one of the few groups in Britain singing traditional Qawaali, the intense devotion ...

 
Amel Tafsout
  Amel Tafsout, meaning ‘Hope of Spring’ is the most charismatic and acclaimed world performer and instructor of North African Maghreb Dance. Director of “The Tafsoutettes”, her Maghreb dance company, Tafsout has lectured, danced, taught, sung, and conducted anthropological research all over the wo ...
 
Ammy Coco
  With her broad smile and mischievous laugh, it's easy to see how Ammy Coco lights up the stage. Coco says that as her parents are from different countries - Togo and Benin - and as she sings in so many different languages - Swahili, Bumbara, Senegalese, Togolese, Benin, French and English - the tit ...
 
Anatolia
  Ismail Nacar of Anatolia describes himself as Kurdish, Alevi, Anatolian and Turkish, and sees Anatolia, the five-piece band he plays with, as a mixture of all these elements. Setting out to play the "people's music", Anatolia specialise in the folk music of the Anatolian region, rather than of a spe ...
 
 
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