Our World Music Beginners' Guides

Rich Ward (l) and Marcos (r) follow a variety of world music

What lies at the heart of the Greek blues? What defines North Indian Classical Music? What exactly is Flamenco?

The Global Echoes team bring you much more than just a world music programme.

They are introducing a series of Beginners' Guides, with everything you wanted to know about instruments from the charango to the mbira (African thumb piano).

Find out about genres from Flamenco through Fado to Carnatic music...

Join Rich Ward as he enlists the help of the experts for the Global Echoes Beginners' Guides - he'll start with the basics and build on them to create a comprehensive guide to various world music topics.

We'll keep adding guides to this page (see top right) so be sure to bookmark and hit this site on a regular basis.

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