From Armenian Sacred Music to Leonard Cohen
An Unexpected Musical Feast
Articles by Geoffrey Butts
The Song Hunters – Suppression and Survival
The preservation of an ancient tradition of polyphonic singing.
Singing in Exile
Working to pass on an ancient Armenian form of music.
Armenia: Return to a Town That Died
A moving return to Spitak 30 years after an earthquake.
The Language of Passion
The Life and Work of a traditional Irish musician
The Sean Nos Tradition
A Living Traditional Music in Ireland
Songs of Survival
Field recordings of a living tradition in Georgia
This River
Four Short Poems
Pilgrimage
From the BBC Radio 4 Series “Something Understood”
From “The Places In Between”
Across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul