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Jodie Comer’s Prima Facie set a record with its cinema screenings – but where did it place on our critic’s top 10 list?

"Im going to be 60 one day at one of these singings, and no one in my family is going to know what Im on about," said Mars Hill student Taylor Zima.

A slightly seasonal edition of the most eclectic regular record reviews in the universe. By Thomas H Green.

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Theatre emerged from the pandemic into a year of high drama at home and abroad. Why are our dramatists failing to address it?

Donna Ray Norton is no stranger to the musical community of Western North Carolina. She’s an 8th generation ballad singer who grew up in the legendary Sodom community of Madison County, a county which folklorist Cecil Sharp likened to “a nest of singing birds.” Her grandfather was Byard Ray, a fiddler, and singer who took his style of mountain music across the globe. Her mother, Lena Jean Ray, carried on the Ray musical legacy. We sat down with Donna Ray to learn more about her new album, ...

Celebrating Vaughan Williams' substantial and lasting contribution to 20th-century hymnody

As October begins, Littleport is gearing up for this month’s quota of enjoyable and interesting events.

In reviving local and popular musical traditions, the composer found haunting new expressions of Englishness

In 2021, Erland Cooper hid his new album in the wilds of Orkney with no backup just to see how nature warps sound. And now it's been found