Jazz icon Louis Armstrong spent much of his childhood with the Karnofsky family, Lithuanian Jews who even bought him his ...

Grimethorpe Colliery Band principal cornet Jamie Smith will head to Japan for a performance tour this Easter. Grimethorpe ...

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REVIEW BY Richard Amey - ‘Braimah Kanneh-Mason plays Mendelssohn’ – Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra at Assembly Hall, Sunday 8 February 2026 (3pm), leader Rebecca Bell, conductor Dominic Grier.

This year Friends of Harrogate Hospital are celebrating the 60th Anniversary of supporting Harrogate Hospital. The Friends continue to be a volunteer led ...

Partly housed in the former Old England department store, a landmark 1899 Art Nouveau building, the Musical Instruments Museum (also known as the "MIM") is located about a half-mile from the ...

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for cool, widely learned or otherwise interesting musical instruments. However, we’ll be omitting instruments that are the only one of ...

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With the death of Ralph Towner (1940 – 2026) contemporary jazz lost one of its most prolific and distinctive voices. How many ...