After 28 years of playing together, and a number of world tours, it is not surprising that the eight members of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain know how to
I know the weather isn’t strictly a bookable Festival event, but it certainly contributes a certain something to the general atmosphere. So it must just be coincidence that EU
High energy jazz, Cuban roots music, virtuoso musicianship and a lot of sonic experimentation when the pianist and composer Roberto Fonseca bough his band to play as part of Lichfield
Standing in for the advertised speaker Dame Harriet Walter, Robert Winston, Professor of imperial College London, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and politician brought a refreshing breeze of opinion, innovation
With a cast of four and spontaneous audience suggestions, School of the Night is one of those shows where content and quality can veer of in unsuspecting directions. If you
One of the greatest things about Festivals is having the chance to sample stuff you’ve never heard of and in the process finding new enthusiasms.
I’m ashamed to
A reclusive and once-famed singer, mysterious deaths, roadkill, the social life of the moose, flamboyant pop starts, Nordic walking, jumpers, Ikea and Swedish thrash metal were all part of
Almost unbelievably it was a hot night in Lichfield after a sweltering day and suddenly the cathedral seemed the city’s cool and welcoming heart for this magnificent orchestra and
This was a truly wizard wheeze, a programme celebrating the output of Bloodaxe, purveyors of quality poems to the gentry i.e discerning modern poetry readers everywhere. But there was
So summer’s finally come to Lichfield just in time for the opening of the Festival (clever staff for arranging it) but on a warm July morning the cool of
Birmingham Royal Ballet has never been more audience-friendly. They continually present cutting-edge new works either by visiting choreographers or BRB’s Director David Bintley himself, but they’ve
There are a handful of tales from the last few decades that belong to British culture so much their very titles are shorthand for the stuff we care about. Shirley
