F is for Fado
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Songlines Encounters Festival returns for its ninth edition this summer. Do you know your kannel from your kora, your fado…
Songlines Encounters Festival returns for its ninth edition this summer. Do you know your kannel from your kora, your fado…
Our 2019 artistic programme started last week with a spectacular performance from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, launching…
Scottish singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Newton, curator of Trad. Reclaimed, puts together a playlist of artists featured in the…
American composer and co-founder of the innovative ensemble Bang on a Can Julia Wolfe shares her key musical influences with Helen…
Isobel Colchester is Chief Executive of Poet in the City, Artistic Associate at Kings Place, which promotes live poetry events…
Polly Bielecka, Director of Pangolin London, pays tribute to three formidable female sculptors featured as part of Venus Unwrapped this…
Amy Sibley-Allen, Jazz Consultant to Kings Place, reflects on the untold story of women in jazz
Award-winning composer Kerry Andrew performs with Juice Ensemble and alt-folk band You Are Wolf. Her first novel Swansong (Jonathan Cape) appeared…
Scottish singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Newton curates this year’s Folk Weekend for Venus Unwrapped, Trad Reclaimed. Here she speaks…
From the Dark Ages to the Baroque period, European convents provided a rare – though continually threatened – space for…
Since the time of Hildegard of Bingen, every century has had its share of exceptional female composers. So why aren’t…