Say cheerio to summer and hello old pal to autumn as the Duke closes its garden for the year with a day-long party including all day BBQ. Music comes from Disco Volante DJs, taking you on a trip to the Balearic 90s, early 2000s classic house and Chicago house.
Hear the band’s rich sounds in this concert of American music. Broadway songs from Porgy and Bess, West Side Story, and Showboat sit alongside contemporary music like the haunting Seal Lullaby, and quirky A Londoner in New York suite. The Harry James trumpet concerto, a rollicking circus march, and the jazz of Stan Kenton plus … Continue reading "Redbridge Brass – Music from America"
Wanstead journalist Ted Kessler was the last editor of the great Q magazine before its untimely demise. The closure wasn't his fault - in fact he did everything possible to keep the title alive - but he was faced with immoveable forces. In Paper Cuts he talks about the death of the music press - … Continue reading "Wanstead Book Festival presents Ted Kessler"