Lockdown has scuppered the sheer visceral excitement that artists and audiences share in any live performance, forcing creatives to look...

Online arts are playing a vital role in keeping up our spirits and feeding our souls during the Covid lockdown. And while no one would...

It was a daunting task – to cover 900 years of western music from 12th century sacred monophony to 21st century jazz in one afternoon...

There’s so much to love about the annual London International Festival of Early Music – amazing musicians, an astonishing array of rare...

The annual Blackheath Halls Opera is always a highlight of the cultural year in south-east London and it’s also a favourite with readers...

Major world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a...

What could be musically more exciting than a live jazz-funk gig? One featuring James Taylor on Hammond organ, that’s what. His show at...

If anyone ever doubts the contemporary relevance of what’s played and displayed at the perennially marvellous London International...

I’m not given to rating events out of 10 but if I had to I wouldn’t hesitate to award Trinity Laban’s Shapeshifter and Contemporary Music...

Get it wrong and comic opera can be a disaster. But get it right, like this year’s sold-out Blackheath Halls opera La Belle Hélène, and...

Sweet Charity has a heck of a musical pedigree – the original director was Bob Fosse, the book was by Neil Simon and the near-perfect...

If you want a quick-fire guide to world music the Budapest Café Orchestra is just the ticket. In a 90-minute set at Blackheath Halls the...

He may be 75 but guitar genius Albert Lee shows no signs of slowing up, either in his touring and studio schedule or – as those of us...

A drag queen outSummering Donna Summer, a Dutch jazz trio jamming with Donald Trump, a Brahms’ hymn and an anti-Brexit rant set to Handel...

Trinity Laban is right in the middle of a season of concerts celebrating women composers. The series is called Venus Blazing, the title...

The annual International Early Music Festival returned to newly revamped Blackheath Halls this year with its usual array of the unusual....

The children of jazz legends who choose to follow in their parents’ footsteps have to face a lifetime of comparisons, often to their...