Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Kizzy Crawford: ‘I am part of two worlds, in both I will thrive’
The singer-songwriter tells Chris Searle what inspires her great new album Can Yr Adar (Birdsong)
PIC CAP Deep roots: Kizzy Crawford Pic: Rhys Thomas/Ochr 1/Antena
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
“WELSH, English and Barbadian — I have a fantastic cultural heritage to be proud of,” Kizzy Crawford declares. And her love of nature, musicianship and language is what inspires the jazz of this gifted Welsh-Barbadian.
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