Preserving and perpetuating traditions... Seun Kuti, the youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, is keen to preserve- and perpetuate- traditions. He was just 12 when he joined his father's group ...

In 2018, Salif Keïta announced that he wanted to put an end to his illustrious career. But now, to the delight of his fans, he has changed his mind. Now 70, the Malian musician continues to tour the ...

Watch ARTE Europe Weekly How is Russia trying to destabilise Europe? 11 min Watch the programme More convicts than cells, Europe’s prisons are facing a crisis and it’s forcing big questions about the ...

Cécile McLorin Salvant has been described as ‘the heiress of Billie Holiday’. When she sings, it's as if time and space ...

In Georgia, a former Soviet republic, the pro-Russia party Georgian Dream won the parliamentary elections, amid accusations of vote rigging and Russian interference. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin ...

Leave the dancers, lasers and other confections at home. In Kiev in 2017, Salvador Sobral won Eurovision with an appearance that was as wonderful as it was small-scale, where the Portuguese pianist ...

Cristina Branco does not define herself as a classic fadista, but rather as a ‘cantora de fado’, in other words, an artist who also sings fado. Whatever the labels: She has moulded this traditional ...

Watch KOMPROMAT ARTE Concert Festival 2024 71 min Watch the programme ...

During the Cold War, when Germany was split between West and East, people still fell in love across the physical and ideological border. Some risked everything to cross over to join their partners.

Surfing between pop, techno and krautrock, Kelly Lee Owens moves the crowd at the ARTE Concert Festival in more ways than one. Bringing material from her latest album Dreamstate, now is the chance to ...

Watch Mikhaïl Pletnev and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Rachmaninov's concertos: Nos.3 and 4 83 min Watch the programme More Jean-Jacques and Alexandre Kantorow interpret Brahms Concert ...