Showing posts with label World Musics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Musics. Show all posts
Saturday, 29 December 2012

Buskers on the Tube

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Ted Emmett, TfL busker Hearing music floating up the escalators on London's tube always gives me a lift, even when going down, not u...
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Thursday, 15 March 2012

Update on Chewing Gum: songs, even!

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Suddenly within the last couple of weeks, new posters have appeared on the underground tube stations ('subways' to all you out the...
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Sunday, 4 March 2012

"Refined Pleasures": Korean music at Musicon

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The last concert in the Musicon Festival of East Asian Music featured Korean music performed by the impressive ensemble Jeong Ga Ak Hoe. Wha...
Friday, 2 March 2012

Musicon Festival: Chinese flute music

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True to its title, "Birds in the Shade", this lunchtime Musicon concert in Durham began with an incredible chirping, cheeping flu...
Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Leap Day in Durham: The Musicon Festival of East Asian Music

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Leap Day today; I asked my husband to marry me, and he said, "What? Again ?". Well, if not leaping into marriage, there are other ...
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Monday, 13 February 2012

'Morning Doves' Duo

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The 'Morning Doves' at the Shakespeare's Head, Islington Two young women are making the rounds of pubs and clubs in London,...
Saturday, 11 February 2012

SOAS has a ceilidh band!

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SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Music at the University of London, focusses its research and teaching on Africa and Asia.* Big surp...
Friday, 10 February 2012

"The Floating Palace" at the Barbican: featuring Martin and Eliza Carthy

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One of the golden rules states that "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all". But where would we be wit...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

Table Rock blues

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Just what you've all been waiting for: Why, oh why, does the table rock? Makes my food fall off the top. Coffee spills all ov...
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

Sessions at two Shakespeare pubs

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I've heard "The Swan" is the most popular name for a pub, but there are a lot of Shakespeares around, too. We've just been...
Friday, 23 December 2011

Steeleye Span at the Barbican!

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The announcer said it was the wish of a lifetime: to see Steeleye Span at the Barbican. And we did it. Great stuff – Maddy Prior can still b...
Sunday, 11 December 2011

Roots & Branches with Boys of the Lough

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Alistair Anderson and Annie Whitehead on the cover programme for "Roots & Branches" Alistair Anderson, former head of Fol...
Sunday, 20 November 2011

Bill Frisell at the South Bank

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Tonight we caught the last installment of the London Jazz Festival this year: Bill Frisell with his string quartet playing to a packed audie...
Friday, 11 November 2011

Making music at the Elm Tree

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I wrote earlier about the Durham University Folk Society getting together on Wednesday nights at the Market Tavern to play music o...
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Music at Ye Old Elm Tree

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The Elm Tree pub has been listed as the "best pub in Durham" – why, we don't know. This was in the advertising booklet publish...
Thursday, 6 October 2011

Northumbrian Music at Market Tavern

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More than thirty musicians and who knows how many onlookers gathered at the Market Tavern in Durham's Market Square Wednesday night for ...
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Monday, 3 October 2011

Gamelan Welcomes New International Students to Durham

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The Durham University Gamelan Society played 3 hours of soothing background music in the café of the Calman Learning Centre last Friday a...
Sunday, 2 October 2011

Northumbrian Voices

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Fantastic concert Saturday night at The Sage music venue in Gateshead by Kathryn Tickell and her father Mike Tickell plus four more musician...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Okinawan Music at the Japan Matsuri

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We did it again! The London Sanshinkai did a half hour's performance this past Sunday at the 2011 Japan Matsuri (Festival), singing slow...