fRoots
fRoots is the world’s leading magazine covering modern and traditional music with roots from around the globe, from Anglo-trad to Zanzibar pop
It has been at the sharp end of the folk/roots/world music scene for over 30 years, dealing with an incredible diversity of music from the latest fusions to the very ethnic. Its pages have featured artists from Ali Farka Toure to Robert Plant, from Ry Cooder to Devon Sproule, from Eliza Carthy to Youssou N’Dour, from the Mekons to the Copper Family, from Bellowhead to the Carolina Chocolate Drops, from young English folk names like the Unthanks, Jim Moray, Jackie Oates and Nancy Wallace to veterans like Cuba’s Eliades Ochoa and Algeria’s late Cheikha Rimitti, from Europe’s new wave of ethno-adventurers like Ojos De Brujo, Kristi Stassinopoulou and Kries to roots artists from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and beyond. fRoots is the first place you read about new names who later go on to establish strong reputations, and is often the first to highlight previously under-exposed local musics.
fRoots is also keenly activist, campaigning on numerous issues over the years and involved in live music promotion and music production. The magazine instigated the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music, was involved in the groundbreaking Europe in Union concert series, 2005’s massive Ceilidh Aid, has been hands-on involved in grassroots level tour sponsorship and artist development, and much more.
(Pronounce it “eff-Roots”).
