There are few but well preserved mysteries in the musical world. One of them will be unfolded at Southbank Centre during 2015’s edition of Meltdown Festival curated by David Byrne. Next to a stimulating show, “Atomic Bomb! The Music of William Onyeabor” is also an attempt to explain who William Onyeabor is and...
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EVENT – 17/08/2015 – London, Southbank Centre, Meltdown – Estrella Morente Estrella Morente Carbonell is little more than 30, but she’s already a polestar for the flamenco scene in and outside her native Andalusia. However, if you are the daughter of the celebrated artist Enrique Morente and the graceful dancer...
In few days time, The Nest Collective and Southbank Centre will bring a touch of hot and spicy tropical summer on the The Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden. For the second appointment with the unplugged music series called Folk with Altitude, they have indeed in store one of the most...
Dr. Funkenstein is back in town and you’d be pretty sure that he has packed in his luggage some jazzy suits and overwhelming rhythms. George Clinton, frontman of the legendary bands Parliament and Funkadelic, needs no introduction: he has made the history of funk and it won’t be exaggerated to...
Sadly it’s the last day of Womad today. But there is lots of good acts on. Here are our Recommendations for the day: Noura Mint 13.00-14.00 OPEN AIR STAGE http://womad.co.uk/lineup/noura-mint-seymali Kocani Orchestra 14.00-15.00 SIAM http://womad.co.uk/lineup/ko%C4%8Dani-orkestar Dona Onete 15.00-16.00 OPEN AIR STAGE http://womad.co.uk/lineup/dona-onete Ghostpoet 16.00-17.00 SIAM http://womad.co.uk/lineup/ghostpoet Violons Barbares 16.00-17.00 RADIO 3...
Another good lineup today, here are our picks of the day: Cheikh Lo -13.00-14.00 OPEN AIR STAGE http://womad.co.uk/lineup/cheikh-l%C3%B4 Hands-on with Fin & the Moog Sound Lab – 14:00-15:00 Bowers & Wilkins Sound System Criolo – 15.00-16.00 OPEN AIR STAGE http://womad.co.uk/lineup/criolo Mbongwana – Star 18.00-19.00 SIAM http://womad.co.uk/lineup/mbongwana-star Ezza – 18.00-19.00 RADIO 3 CHARLIE GILLETT STAGE...
Lots of Interesting acts today, here is our not so short list: Sona Jobarteh 13.00-14.00 – ECOTRICITY STAGE http://womad.co.uk/lineup/sona-jobarteh Mahotella Queens 13.00-14.00 – ECOTRICITY STAGE http://womad.co.uk/lineup/mahotella-queens Toto La Momposina 15.00-16.00 – OPEN AIR STAGE http://womad.co.uk/lineup/tot%C3%B3-la-momposina Nazim Ziryab 16.00-17.00 – RADIO 3 CHARLIE GILLETT STAGE http://womad.co.uk/lineup/nazim-ziryab Pascuala Ilabaca 17.00-18.00 – ECOTRICITY STAGE...
The last few years have seen remarkable line-ups at WOMAD Charlton Park. Featuring at some point nearly all the greatest and leading exponents of African and Asian music at the festival this year’s line-up shows the care and wealth of love for the music that is reflected in the programming....
For the thirty-third year in a row WOMAD will let the world play. From the 23rd to the 26th of July Charlton Park in Wiltshire will entertain hundreds of thousands of world music fans, charming and inspiring their senses. …And so the musical atlas of WOMAD 2015 begins to take...
Everything has a cost except Walthamstow Garden Party! Because Barbican Centre, Walthamstow Forest and CREATE have joined their forces to offer you “music, theatre, dance, circus, film, spoken word, crafts and family fun” for free… That’s what Walthamstow Garden Party will bring to Lloyd Park this weekend. The North-East London...