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In the delirious and exhilarating Sephardic dance that finished their concert devoted to the Jewish, Muslim and Christian music of…

There are few concert experiences as satisfying as hearing cornerstone works of the Romantic repertoire played with energy, commitment and…

Before last night's still-shocking saga of a downtrodden soul began, Southbank Artistic Director Mark Ball came on to tell us that while…

It must be exhausting to be a member of Belfast hip-hop crew, Kneecap. Having already recorded a debut album and fistful of fine singles…

In Mark Jenkin’s Cornish cinema, lost boats, drowned men and ways of life wash back in with the tide, nothing truly gone. Where his feature…

Last year, Paul Weller compiled a collection of his favourite soul tracks. A highlight of That Sweet Sweet Music was Jon Lucien’s affecting…

Decades are never neat: they don’t simply go from 1 to 10, or 0 to 9. So it is with the Swinging Sixties, which actually began – like…

I have to confess, I hadn’t been sure what to expect when I heard about The Art of Fugue staged with acrobats. This latest collaborative…

In an era of excessive production for live shows, it is striking to see a band of Big Thief’s stature walk onto a stage this large and…