Ian Anderson, Author at fRoots Magazine

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Easily the best part of this year’s Eurovision ‘Song’ Contest was the opening fado sequence, with...

To the list of entrancing women singers of Judeo-Spanish or Ladino music such as the more familiar...

As Private Eye’s spoof Jeremy Corbyn column always starts, “Hello, it’s me again.” Those of you...

In the 1980s, I used to make pilgrimages to West Africa and return with piles of cassettes bought...

Some of the most refreshing music to be heard around the clubs in the past autumn was provided by...

Shirley Collins’ career as a singer started in the late ’50s, with an initial leaning towards...

A quick potted history. The Copper family have worked in and around Rottingdean, Sussex, for...

We live, as the saying goes, in interesting times. Some things are very positive: for example you...

The morning after one of Nic Jones’s club appearances in North Hampshire this summer (a full house...

(First published in fRoots 201, March 2000.) Ever since World Music emerged as a useful marketing...