French music arrived in California in style with the "Ooh la L.A." festival (23 - 25 September), showcasing a host of contemporary French artists in Los Angeles. As organisers whip up support...

A true authority on the trends and currents of Burkina Faso’s music scene, as well as a key underground figure, the young Camille Louvel has now moved into the production side of the business with the launch of Chapa Blues Records...

This year, the 34th "Musiques Métisses" festival held in Angoulême (29 May - 1  June), is flying the flag for Guinea, showcasing artists from across the generations. World ...

Morocco's capital city, Rabat, is normally a quiet, business-like place. But between 15 and 23 May 2009, the city has been partying to the "rhythms of the world" ...

A decade after their groundbreaking debut album, Racines, Bisso na Bisso are about to release a follow-up. Africa United is not due for release until June 15th, but RFI Musique brings you ...

Senegalese musicians in the old colonial city of Saint-Louis have had a hard time getting themselves heard. Local talents are regularly overshadowed by their more famous compatriots in Dakar ...

The Senegalese music scene has been buzzing in recent years as local rappers have forged their own unique style of flow with lyrics bordering on poetry.

On 13 November Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo played host to the final of the 2008 RFI Découvertes (new talent) Award. And it was a Madagascan, ...

The Cité de la Musique is currently celebrating the life and work of the influential French music icon Serge Gainsbourg. Apart from photos, film, video extracts and artworks owned by the late singer,...

Six weeks before the 30th edition of ADISQ (Quebec's mainstream music awards), underground artists got to stage their own indie celebration at the GAMIQ.

This year the Sakifo festival kicked off at Port-Louis, Mauritius, before moving to Saint Pierre on the south end of Réunion Island. The festival's six stages played host to over fifty different concerts. Sakifo's success ever since its debut is largely down to its balanced and consistent programming.

The 2008 edition of Francofolies is bigger, better and more charged with history than ever. RFI Musique joins in the fun as French Canada marks ...

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, ...