Listen to the show here. This January was my first ever Celtic Connections in Glasgow – I was there playing with the perennially charming Sam Lee alongside Alice Zawadzki and Josh Green. Our second concert was recorded by Verity Sharp for Radio 3, and you can find it here. And if you ever have the good fortuneContinue reading “Folk Connections from Celtic Connections [Radio]”
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The Fox and The Eagle [short story]
by Jon Whitten and Cassandra Posada
gado blog 1 – Small
A couple of months ago, a crowd of music lovers packed the gunnels and stuffed the rafters of an east London annex for the first ever gado gado – a night of new compositions, dance, puppetry and visual art. I had the pleasure of premiering several chamber pieces, which I’ll be posting here as weContinue reading “gado blog 1 – Small”
30.6.15 [monologue]
Folk Music, Fossil Hunting and the Wild Sea
Four years after the blockbuster success of Les Miserables, exiled from France, living on the tiny island of Guernsey and exhausted of national drama and political polemics, Victor Hugo wrote a relatively straightforward love story – Toilers of the Sea. Relatively straightforward for Victor Hugo, anyway. It still weighs in at 150,00 words (more thanContinue reading “Folk Music, Fossil Hunting and the Wild Sea”
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Bio & CV
The first song I learnt to play was the Toploader version of Dancing in the Moonlight on piano. The first song I wrote came about two weeks later, and was very nearly the Toploader version of Dancing in the Moonlight. But despite limited creative input to my Opus 1, I couldn’t believe how much fun it wasContinue reading “Bio & CV”
either everyone should be fare-dodging or TfL should stop whinging about people who do
Note to non-Londoners: TfL is the umbrella organisation which runs London subways and busses, but the below applies to any system where fines are used to deter people from doing things which have the potential to save or make them money (fare-dodging, theft, tax evading etc) 1) Some people don’t buy tickets for their travel, effectivelyContinue reading “either everyone should be fare-dodging or TfL should stop whinging about people who do”
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