- 14 May 2025
No fuss, just a ripple of applause, a moment of calm, then fortissimo G octaves....
- 13 May 2025
It’s so lovely when talented youth teaches old ears wonderful new tunes. That’s exactly what...
- 10 May 2025
What nerve! For a happy troupe of mainly middle-aged men to adopt the label of...
- 10 May 2025
Anoushka Shanka’s curating of the Brighton Festival 2025 has divided opinion, whilst many of us...
- 8 May 2025
Five excellent musicians – that is three singers, one also playing a Vielle (an early...
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Stealth Aspies: Autistic People Speak Out
- 24 May 2018
Once seen predominantly as the inhabitants of films about sauvants or ‘challenging’ families, the spotlight...
Fretful Federation Mandolin Orchestra
- 24 May 2018
What a treat! Two groups of string trembling musicians playing diverse, eclectic, innovative programmes, and...
Shutte The Unromantic
- 24 May 2018
Seasoned comedy polymath, Katy Schutte, is querying the received norms and expectation of what qualifies...






