
ANNA TIVEL
How do we talk about destiny from the balcony of a nation in decline?

Blending Rumi with a bit of jazz, classical Persian sounds and Iranian hits from the 1960s and ’70s

African performer Dobet Gnahoré shook the Main Stage to open the 47th Vancouver Folk Music Festival

“Throat singing became a radical act of reclamation, music as cultural revitalization…”