Review: BBC PROMS AT SAGE GATESHEAD: SELF ESTEEM & ROYAL NORTHERN SINFONIA, Sage Gateshead
by Bryony Rae Taylor - Jul 24, 2023
I like my orchestral music organised around Northern talent. An evening of two halves, this BBC Proms event saw Nottingham (which is geographically more North than South, so let’s forget for a moment that it’s in the midlands) was repped by four-piece band Divorce. Then, Rotherham-born Self-Esteem - or Rebecca Lucy Taylor, a seedling national treasure – performed an hour-long set “with some surprises”, primarily performing her own work with new arrangements by Colin Elliot.
Shakespeare's Globe Announces New Trustees
by Stephi Wild - Oct 7, 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe is announcing eight new Trustees joining the Board this year. Several of the organisation’s Trustees are retiring this year, with a combined thirty-nine years of service supporting the Globe most recently through successive lockdowns, through to reopening the theatre, and planning for the future.
Celtic Angels Ireland Comes to the Eisemann in March
by Stephi Wild - Jan 13, 2022
Direct from Dublin! Just two weeks after Saint Patrick's Day, the perfect show to round out Irish American Heritage Month is headed to the Charles W. Eisemann Center's Hill Performance Hall.