GEORGE FOGARTY reflects on the politics expressed at this year’s festival where contradictions abound, but the music kept it real

GEORGE FOGARTY is dazzled by a breathtakingly skillful puppet version of Shakespeare’s greatest love poem

GEORGE FOGARTY is unsettled by a brilliant concert that stands on the shoulders of immigrant Jamaican heritage without reaching out a hand to the Jamaican people

GEORGE FOGARTY wallows in a celebration of music as a community practice

GEORGE FOGARTY is captivated by a brilliant one-man show depicting life in HMP Strangeways

GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism

GEORGE FOGARTY falls under a spell of an unpretentious gathering that is as edifying as it is entertaining

GEORGE FOGARTY is stunned by the epic and life-affirming sound of an outstanding Palestinian musical collective