Pioneers of folk-rock, Steeleye Span changed the face of folk music forever, taking it out of small clubs and into the world of gold discs and international tours.
Five decades on and the band, led as ever by the iconic vocals of Maddy Prior and a line-up featuring some of...
It's hard to overstate quite how massive R&B rockers The Animals were in the mid-1960s. And that torch is being kept lit to this day.
Amazingly, drummer and final remaining original band member John Steel is still smashing it on stage with the band’s current iteration at the age of...
A one-of-a-kind film and music experience: The Magical Music of Harry Potter - Live in
Concert, now with a Weasley - Chris Rankin!
The concert features the best music from the
films with the London Symphonic & Philharmonic Film Orchestra.
The Harry Potter films are some of the most successful in the history...
The first students to graduate from a North East music therapy centre have received a special message from the superstar who launched them on their journey.
The 10-strong group successfully completed the two-year Master of Music Therapy programme at the Nordoff Robbins centre, Jesmond, Newcastle - officially opened by music...
Brit Award winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne in this one-off BBC Four documentary.
Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius – the Alan Hull story traces the career of a man whose words and music put Newcastle and...
One of the UK’s most talked-about up-and-coming artists will be joining a stellar lineup at Hardwick Festival this weekend (Aug 21 and 22).
Newcastle-born singer-songwriter Andrew Cushin has been added to the list of big-name performers who will play on the first day of the event, held in the grounds...
The proposed relaxation of current restriction on 19 July will give everyone something to sing about – and they can do just that when a leading event returns to the North East later this month.
Kroud Karaoke – the popular mass singalong event – was a monthly occurrence at STACK...
A new folk song - telling the story of these times – has been created using traditional North East words and sayings.
Hadaway Ga’an Canny is one of a trio of songs, commissioned by The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, at South Shields and written and recorded by...
Ocean Film Festival World Tour sets sail for the UK! Virtual edition – October & November 2020
The Ocean Film Festival World Tour is bringing a brand-new collection of mesmerising ocean-themed films to UK shores this October and November, in its first-ever virtual edition!
The online film evenings involve a...
A New Tyneside business has bucked the trend by reporting an increase in trade – directly as a result of lockdown.
As concerns grow for the future of British retail following the economic impact of Covid, The Aviary art gallery, at Jesmond, Brentwood, is busier now than it was pre-lockdown.
The...
