Reviews
Le Ballet National de Guinée Conakry invite Bertrand Renaudin
Le Ballet National de Guinée Conakry
Guinea’s Ballet National ensemble has existed since independence was won in 1958 and proudly stands as a symbol of Mande...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2010
The Playhouse Sessions
‘How should I behave when I have a violin in my hand?’ asks the dazzling Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike in...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2023
Dumnonia
He may be best known for his collaboration with the Essex folk quartet, Mawkin, but Jim Causley is very definitely...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011
En Vivo en el Norte: In Concert
Fifteen years have flown by since Scottish musician Toby Shippey and a group of Edinburgh-based musician friends began fusing Latin...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: July/2010
Sonho Real
It's ten years since Flavia Coelho moved from her native Brazil to Paris, where she created a reggae-tinged mixture she...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Every Bird that Flies
‘The Fall’ begins in paradise: lying on the ground on a summer's day, and a child running about. Suddenly there's...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
A Lifetime Isn’t Enough
Grammy-winning producer/conflict resolution specialist Ian Brennan and Italian-Rwandan photographer/filmmaker Marilena Delli Umuhoza have long provided platforms for the under-represented with...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2022
Baila Sahara Baila
Mariem Hassan & Vadiya Mint El Hanevi
This is the final album from one of the great voices of the Sahara: Mariem Hassan died in August 2015...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2016
Sorrows Away
The Unthanks have been closing their concerts with the title-track of their new album and finding that audiences are singing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2022
Shamrock City
In 1910, a young man named Michael Conway left rural poverty behind in Ireland and took passage across the Atlantic...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2013
