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Dubliners get into shape for anniversary year

WHILE 2012 will be remembered for the London Olympics, the year also promises to be memorable for a musical milestone.Read

Dubliners get into shape for anniversary year

WHILE 2012 will be remembered for the London Olympics, the year also promises to be memorable for a musical milestone.Read

Music: Kate's collection of 'swell' songs!

CREATIVITY can come in many shapes and guises when you’re a songwriter looking for inspiration.Read

A NEW women’s choir with 18 singers who are based at Birmingham Conservatoire will give a free concert next week.

Thaleia will perform romantic music by Brahms, Schubert, Berlioz, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn at St Paul’s Church in the Jewellery Quarter at 7.30pm on Thursday.Read

Folk: Old and new from Fairport Convention

SOMETHING old, something new – that’s the theme of Fairport Convention’s current tour that visits Leamington Assembly on February 6 and Birmingham Town Hall on March 5.Read

Music: Inspiration from beyond the grave for folkie Alasdair Roberts

FOLK singer Alasdair Roberts is used to receiving advice from people – but he didn’t expect to hear words of wisdom from beyond the grave!Read

Music: New album goes like a dream for Richard Thompson

AFTER recording over 40 albums in more than four decades, folk-rock legend Richard Thompson devised an ingenious way to make his latest disc.Read

Music: Hate at first sight for Smoke Fairies

THEY are the best of friends but when future Smoke Fairies Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire first met, it was hate at first sight!Read

Music: Northfield folk duo are over the moon

A BIRMINGHAM music duo are over the moon that one of their songs will appear on folk act Fairport Convention’s new album.Read

Beabes take a theatrical turn

THE Mediaeval Baebes return to the West Midlands this Christmas but if their show is a little different from usual that is because they have been taking a new direction this year.Read

Cecilia favours opera over flamenco

WITH her glamorous Italian looks, it is hard to see the comparison. But Cecilia Bartoli believes she is the Indiana Jones of the opera world.Read

Jazz: Young talent plays intimate Birmingham show

THE Hare & Hounds, in Kings Heath, is the place to be tomorrow to hear one of the best young jazz musicians to come out of the USA in recent years.Read

Music: Pianist is Radiohead and Coldplay fan

COMPOSER Ludovico Einaudi is loved by fans of classical music – but he hates to be pigeon-holed as ‘classical’.Read

Classical: Russell Watson's talking Italian

RUSSELL Watson is back – and he’s talking Italian!Read

Music: It's Mud, son of Muddy

MUD Morganfield may not be a name that is instantly recognisable – until you know that his father is McKinley Morganfield, aka the legendary Muddy Waters.Read

Review: Nightmare on Broad Street

FOR their latest Friday Night Classics concert, with a Halloween theme, the CBSO could well have been renamed the City of Birmingham Scary Orchestra! Chilling stuff from start to finish.Read

Music: Too royal to play music!

 ONE of the true giants of African music performs for the first time in Birmingham at the Town Hall on Monday but Salif Keita’s climb to the top of his chosen profession was not an easy one.Read

Music: Mary Duff's in festive spirit

A TOP orchestra has helped make a dream come true for Irish singing star Mary Duff – and her thousands of fans will be delighted.Read

Notebenders jazz it up at Artsfest

THE mighty BBC Big Band tonight joins forces with Ladywood’s The Notebenders for an Artsfest special at Birmingham Town Hall.Read

Busking Brummies Strumpit heading for the big time

THINGS are looking up for Gypsy Jazz trio Strumpit who impress whenever they busk around the Midlands.Read