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Wychwood Music Festival 2022 daily capacity: 7500 last updated: Today, 03:05pm Wychwood Festival is a very family-friendly, intimate and inclusive for audience and musician alike, blending world, roots and contemporary music, and encouraging new collaborations. There's also comedy, workshops, lots of childrens activities, and more. Wychwood returns to Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire for its 16th year from Friday 3rd until Sunday 5th June 2022. Line-up Tickets Kids entertainment Wychwood offers fantastic fun for kids, and hosts a literary festival with authors and illustrators, kids' fa...

The Shake Keane riff: genius of Vincentian jazz musician Riff: The Shake Keane Story by Philip Nanton - Shake Keane is another musical genius, hardly known in his native Caribbean. He died in Norway in 1997, undeservedly unrecognised by most of us, because, like so many of our other impressive artists, musicians, writers and performers of the last century who strutted across the international stage, contributing to the new era of music and entertainment, he lived a life that was hard to keep track of. I only knew his name because I came across the ground-breaking Joe Harriot Quintet music of...

2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature: T&T writers dominate longlist Writers with roots in five different Caribbean territories have been longlisted for the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media, owner of the Express newspapers, TV6, and the OCM radio network. The 2021 NGC Bocas Lit Fest which runs from Friday 23 – Sunday 25 April will take place online. The OCM Bocas prize, now in its eleventh year, is internationally considered the leading literary award for Caribbean writers. The Prize recognises books in three genre categories — poetr...

Trinidad and Tobago writers dominate OCM Bocas award longlist Monday 15 March 2021 The book covers of the nine longlisted books for the OCM Bocas Prize 2021. - Five TT-born writers have been longlisted for the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. The other four authors represent Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica, and St Lucia. The OCM Bocas prize is now in its 11th year and is sponsored by One Caribbean Media. The prize recognises books in three genre categories – poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction – published by authors of Caribbean birth or citizenship in the preceding year, s...

Bocas celebrates Black Britain culture CLR James - EIGHTY-FIVE years after the UK publication of the ground-breaking Minty Alley, the only novel by CLR James, at a time when Caribbean literature is once again seizing the attention of British audiences, the Bocas Lit Fest has joined forces with British organisations to celebrate Black British culture. The Bocas Lit Fest, Your Local Arena and Penguin Books UK, will host a week-long programme (March 8-13), of literature, film and music, exploring the contributions of generations of people of African and Caribbean heritage to the rise of what is...