Crouch End Festival Chorus will be performing Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert in a concert at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 17 July. In this preview feature, Russell Davies tells the story of how Ellington, “aware that he had not lived a [...]
AJ Dehany remembers the 2019 edition and looks forward to dipping a toe back in the water of music festivals: Styling itself as a Scottish Supernormal, the delayed third edition of the Jupiter Rising mini-festival is coming on 28-29 August. [...]
Alto saxophonist Lee Griffiths, originally from Northamptonshire, studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and is one of the organisers behind the Fizzle series of improvised and experimental music. He and Olivia Murphy will be taking over the running of the series from [...]
The planets align for a triple bill! I was all set to write this article solely about MAYDAY C4 – a hugely ambitious and worthy clutch of compelling talks about this precious planet and our responsibility to it…. As a [...]
Pandemic or no pandemic, London-based gig promoters Mood Indigo have not let the grass grow under their feet. With a series of streamed events over the last year, co-organisers Terence Collie and Janet McCunn have kept going throughout the lockdown [...]
LEAH WILLIAMS, Editor of UKJN’s 2021 International Women’s Day Series, writes: This weekend marks exactly a decade since we first published a special series for International Women’s Day and this year we’re excited to present our largest collection yet with [...]
