TOM STONE sings the praises of one of the oldest open-air festivals in Britain
‘I am so thrilled that the four year nightmare of Trump's presidency will soon be behind us’
MARY HALVORSON talks to Chris Searle about what inspires her music and has a tender word for Robert Wyatt
Mary Halvorson
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Chris Searle speaks to accordionist KAREN STREET
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BOB NEWLAND reviews a book that will take many back to the final years of apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE examines the fatal relationship between environmental crimes and politics in Brazil and the inspiration provided by Indigenous people
MARY HALVORSON, born in Boston in 1980, her mother a nurse, her father a landscape architect, has become one of jazz’s prime guitarists.
She began on the guitar at 11 with early influences from Hendrix to the Beatles to Monk, Coltrane, Miles and Ornette, became interested in free improvisation at school and after studying with alto saxophonist Anthony Braxton has been “working as a musician my whole life.”
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