Month: October 2014

31 October 2014

Stacey Kent Interview

You do a lot of touring and travelling. What have been your favourite places so far?     “I don't know if I have a favourite place, I love to tour the world. In this last year, we’ve been to 30 countries so far on The Changing Lights tour, including some places we’ve never been to […]

27 October 2014

An Introduction to…Stacey Kent

    Born in New Jersey on March 27, 1968, she shares her birthday with Sarah Vaughan. Whilst not from a musical family, her parents had a wide range of musical tastes and she grew up surrounded by music and enjoyed singing from a young age. At the age of 14 she was at a friend’s […]

27 October 2014

Launching ‘Into the Blue’ (part 2) by Lou Beckerman

Part 2: In the run-up to three album launch events Lou Beckerman and some of the instrumentalists reflect on their experience of participating in this project.   I’m writing this two days before the first launch (the stately one!) at gracious Danny House in Hurstpierpoint. It looks as though time spent publicising has been worthwhile […]

13 October 2014

An Introduction to…Tim Garland

An Introduction to Tim Garland     Tim Garland was born in Ilford, Essex on 19th October 1966, the same year as Julian Siegel, Julian Argüelles and Julian Joseph. He was raised in Canterbury, Kent in a musical family. His father was a cellist and music lover, his older brother played the drums and his older […]

13 October 2014

Launching ‘Into the Blue’ (part 1) by Lou Beckerman

  Part 1: Lou Beckerman reflects on wearing an independent recording artist/promoter’s hat to launch her new album.   The lorry arrives with a dauntingly high stack of boxes packed with CDs. They’re looking and sounding good – no major glitches. A certain sense of accomplishment prevails. The band has had a listening session and […]

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