Rodney Crowell describes himself as “the songwriter’s songwriter” and reckons there’s every chance that your favourite country song came from…
Browsing: Howard Assembly Room
Opera North’s programme took a rare dip into the jazz of the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of The…
Composer: David Fennessy Libretto: David Shrigley and Nicholas Bone Conductor: Garry Walker Director: Nicholas Bone Pass the Spoon is described…
Penguin Café was formed by Arthur Jeffes in 2009 to play the music performed by Penguin Café Orchestra, composed by…
Guitarist Tom Ollendorff’s rise has been meteoric: two years ago he brought out his first CD, now he visits Leeds…
This is a typical example of the ambition and enterprise shown by Opera North’s planners for the Howard Assembly Room.…
The “Distilled” concerts are fairly short informal afternoon concerts in the Howard Assembly Room, given by groups of musicians, mostly…
Seckou Keita is noted as a virtuoso of the kora, a West African instrument resembling the harp with 21 strings…