FOLK BRITANNIA AT BARBICAN - 21st Century Folk Music
(No ratings yet)
Loading ...
FOLK BRITANNIA provides an idiosyncratic snapshot of British folk music in the 21st century.
A year ago, the festival Jazz Britannia was such a success that the Barbican along with BBC Four are bringing to us this year, a 3 day festival which celebrates the evolution of British folk music from the end of the Second [...]
SLAVERY - 500 YEARS LATER
The film is a compelling compilation of testimonies, voices and opinions gathered around five continents.
The Live8 concert in July this year, in London’s Hyde Park was set up to raise awareness about the Black continent issues, but before the first guitar riffs, the gig highlighted one single home truth: Africans should do it for themselves! [...]
RAHMANIAN RHAPSODY - Letting his Work do the Talking
A. R. Rahman, having scored for over 75 movies and sold over 150 million albums, is almost worshipped as a god in some parts of India. However, despite his huge success he is ever the reluctant celebrity, preferring to let his work do the talking. Rahman will bring his Live, 3D Concert to Wembley Arena [...]
Artist, Bollywood, Classical, Concert, Director, Film, History, Lover, Magic, Movie, Music, MusicianNICOLA BENEDETTI - Young Musician 2004
17 year old Nicola Benedetti, who became the first Scot to win the BBC Young Musician of 2004, released her debut album recently on one of the most prestigious classical labels in the music industry, Deutsche Grammophon (a subsidiary of Universal Music Group).
The album is regarded as one of the most anticipated recordings of recent [...]
FLIGHT 5065 - Live Arts Festival at the London Eye
This is the first time ever that the London Eye has been used for a live arts festival and was sold out well in advance of its opening. It seems an African summer breeze has blown in over the UK, with weather temperatures soaring, bringing with it a feast of unforgettable experiences.
How ironic then that, [...]
Categories
Contextual
100 Tags
Activity Actor Architect Architecture Art Artist Audio visual Awareness BBC Beauty Biographer Bollywood Celebrity Cinema Classical Clothes Comics Communities Concepts Concert Contemporary Critic Culture Design Designer Designers Deviancy Director DJ Drama East London Editor Elusive Events Exhibition Fashion Festival Film Filmmaker Football Freedom Function Gallery Garments Global History Hollywood Horror Humanist Human rights Iconic Identity Illusion Illustration Independent Innovation Inspiration Installation International Legends Lover Magic Modern Movie Museum Music Musical Musician National Gallery Nature News Novelist Opera Painting Performance Performer Perils Philosophy Photography Poetry Political Power Professor Psychology Punk Radical Rap Religion Science Show Social Society Songwriter Spiritual Television Theatre Traditional Trendy War Writer
