We have never made it a secret that we have a thing for London Remixed Festival. Every year, when February gets closer, we look forward to dancing its first weekend away and listening to some of the most exciting new sounds from London and beyond. February 2019 is no exception,...
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Wednesday 30th January sees the return of Imagining Ireland to the Barbican. Imagining Ireland exists to expose the hidden gems of Irish talent to a UK audience and to deepen the audience’s understanding of what it means to be Irish today. Their first show, which premiered at the Barbican in...
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After having sailed all along the Mediterranean musical Sea, now it’s time to go ashore and discover what continental Europe has to offer when it comes to notes. For the first Rhythm Passport’s Rootmaster appointment of 2019, we will visit the Balkans, Bulgaria to be more precise, with a good-and-proper...
Rapidly on the ascent of UK folk music scene over the last few years, Talisk have won a bunch of awards and conquered European audiences to become one of the Scots’ icons of folk music. Their non-stop touring has brought them in front of faithful fans and curious audiences through...
This year’s EFG London Jazz festival will bring together a wide range of international jazz artists, as well as top local talents. There aren’t many UK Jazz artists as important to the scene as Orphy Robinson; with a history of musical directing, performing and composing, asking one of the UK’s...
Our Rootmaster Goes Mediterranean events have one last docking for 2018, which is on schedule for Sunday 25th November, with Amaraterra and DJ Aly Prince spinning the Hootananny’s helm. The third episode of the series will release all the rhythmic and enrapturing power of Southern Italy and Greek traditional music enhanced...
It doesn’t happen every day that we have the opportunity to enjoy sounds coming from Korea. Luckily, once a year, Serious and the Korean Cultural Centre fill venues like Southbank Centre, Kings Place and Rich Mix with East Asian notes, offering to London the K-Music Festival. During seven shows scattered...
We are still following a strict Mediterranean music diet here at Rhythm Passport, and for the second of our Rootmaster Goes Mediterranean at Hootananny, we will present the full spectrum of South European folk music, from Andalusia to Turkey, stopping over in Southern Italy and Greece. That’s because, on the...
DakhaBrakha means ‘give/take’ in the old Ukrainian language. And it’s true, we see a real ‘give and take’ with the band’s influences – taking Ukrainian folk music and putting their own unique and theatrical spin on it. Often accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation, their music...
What Colour Is Jazz? @ Chats Palace (London; Saturday 23rd February 2019)
Gipsydelica @ Hootananny (Sunday 24th February) - FREE ENTRY -