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Published: 3:52 PM May 13, 2021    British Blues Rock husband and wife duo, Aaron and Grace Bond of When Rivers Meet. - Credit: Rob Blackham A British blues rock husband and wife duo with links to Norfolk have won four awards at the 2021 UK Blues Awards. Aaron and Grace Bond of When Rivers Meet are the first British blues band to win four awards in the same year. The couple, who met in Downham Market, picked up Blues Album Of The Year, Blues Band Of The Year, Emerging Blues Artist Of The Ye...

Multi-media artist Maria Rud creating images in Edinburghs St Giles Cathedral. Jazz musicians let rip while Russian painter and multi-media artist Maria Rud creates spontaneous images inside Edinburgh’s oldest cathedral in a series of live, online performances. Gayle Ritchie finds out more. It is billed as the most ambitious, multi-dimensional event ever staged by the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Where Rivers Meet, brings together live music, live painting and architecture in the strikin...

March 9, 2021 By Kristena Schutt-Moore This is the second year for students in the Inuit, First Nations, Indigenous Studies Class at North Hastings High School compete in the Taylor Reads Indigenous novel competition. Leading up to Wednesday, March 3 students had five weeks of reading and learning about their Indigenous themed novels. Students had to learn about their plot, the characters, the setting and atmosphere of their novels, elements of narration and litera...

BRIGHTLINGSEA WinterFest is on the crest of a wave with the renowned blues rock duo When Rivers Meet lined up for the festival’s next events. The eagerly-awaited online concert by the duo, husband and wife Grace and Aaron Bond who live in Brightlingsea, is set to get the town dancing tonight. Also ready to perform is poet and musician Martin Newell, who will be kicking off an afternoon of entertainment tomorrow from 2.30pm. The events are among the highlights of a packed programme of ...

BRIGHTLINGSEA’s own singing cabbie is set to banish the winter blues, hosting the first event for the town’s month-long WinterFest Neil Carlyle, 62, has kept the town and beyond entertained during lockdown by playing a different tune from his ‘man-cave’ every day on the Brightlingsea Spotted site. He will now be opening WinterFest 2021 at 8pm on February 4 with his expansive repertoire, ranging from 60s and 70s favourites to Scottish waltzes. The owner of NWC Taxis is a multi-in...

BRIGHTLINGSEA’s own singing cabbie is set to banish the winter blues, hosting the first event for the town’s month-long WinterFest Neil Carlyle, 62, has kept the town and beyond entertained during lockdown by playing a different tune from his ‘man-cave’ every day on the Brightlingsea Spotted site. He will now be opening WinterFest 2021 at 8pm on February 4 with his expansive repertoire, ranging from 60s and 70s favourites to Scottish waltzes. The owner of NWC Taxis is a multi-in...