- 1 April 2022
With spring in full bloom the season of festivals is about to start. Over in...
- 31 March 2022
Bess Atwell’s 2021 album ‘Already, Always’ packs the softest punch. Appearing on the horizon in...
- 28 March 2022
Local entrepreneur Steve Barrey has his fingers in many pies and one of the tastiest...
- 25 March 2022
Ben Solomon’s 2003 album ‘Torrington Haze’ is, in some ways, aptly named. It evokes the...
- 22 March 2022
Can there be art about Auschwitz? Of the 1.3 million people sent to the concentration...
Reviews
Huw Wiggin (saxophone) & James Sherlock (piano)
- 8 May 2015
Sometimes a concert can be so original, daring & musically dazzling that it takes one’s...
The Lads In Their Hundreds: Comèdie de Picardy
- 7 May 2015
With only schoolboy French I was worried that this might be a tough act to...
Louise Alder (soprano) and James Baillieu (piano)
- 6 May 2015
Louise Alder began with Gypsy songs by Schumann, one bright-voiced and the second beguilingly plaintive....






