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Author and journalist Chris Nickson takes a look back at the career of singer and guitarist John Martyn on the third anniversary of his death.

“Although I learned to play the guitar at summer camp when I was seven years old, music wasn’t yet the focus of my creative life. I also loved to write…

“Growing up in India I would listen to Indian film songs (Bollywood) on the radio.  When a song came on that I liked, I would run and get my mother….

In the wake of his highly acclaimed CD Europa, featuring prominently in the year-end album polls, journalist Jane Cornwell talks to Courtney Pine about his love of jazz and takes…

“I have always been surrounded by music from an early age. My father was a pop video editor (Stray Cats, Dave Edmunds, David Bowie, The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle)…

“What makes a classical violinist who has dedicated 15 years of her life to J.S. Bach, endless hours of painful practising, and the dream of one day playing in a…

Following the twentieth anniversary of the death of Peter Bellamy, journalist Colin Irwin takes a look back at the life and work of the folk singer extraordinaire.