festivals

Born in Scotland, raised in Denmark, and now based in Copenhagen, she’s a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a reputation for blending everything from William Blake’s poetry to French philosophy into her sound.

From the rainforests of Ghana, Alogte Oho brightens the rainy skies of Norwich with his enthusiastic Sounds of Joy.

This electric jazz performance had me shocked with how good it was.

Stunning semi-improvised sections made for a compelling listening experience, enhanced by some stunning solo singing.

However many N&N shows you see, at least one Toast session should be part of the mix, especially if you can top it off with a Song of the Bulbul.

With a ticket price of just £10, this turned out to be one of the best value-for-money shows in the whole of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival programme.

Apartment House's bold program of music spanned a hundred years of composition, each piece having an oblique but tangible connection with the next.

A compelling journey across soundscapes and styles.

Once again, NNF broadens Pavlis’ musical horizons. 

The upside of NNF is the chance to discover new and different things. The downside is that sometimes those things are just too different.

That audience, having clearly been won over by their winning personalities, lapped up every moment, hooted with laughter throughout, and repeatedly broke out into spontaneous applause, culminating in a standing ovation

An engrossing, excellently programmed, performed and contextualised, selection.

This is an absolute MUST SEE for the Spiegeltent. An hour of entertainment perfect for adults, young children and teens alike.

Once I settled down to the stop/start format and the realisation that this was essentially a juggling show with a few magic skills thrown in for good measure, there was much to enjoy. The cast were strikingly dressed throughout, the sound and lighting design was perfect, as was the far-reaching choice of accompanying music.

With a saxophone and a talented band, Emma Rawicz blessed the Octagon Chapel with fantastic jazz melodies.

A glorious start to NNF25

A journey across borders to explore a developing rock/metal festival in Nottingham.

Esfahani was our notional headliner, but one that seemed at his most content when playing with like-minded musicians, all of whom were playing at the top of their game.

The musicians’ performance was very respectful of the original album and largely managed to recreate its dark, chilling, chaotic quality while being able to add subtle touches of their personality

Baque Luar is all about the beat, and that is what their first visit to Norwich will be remembered for, long after this year's Norfolk & Norwich Festival has ended.

Given some of the impossible choices thrown up by the festival this year, it would be easy to miss out on the events centred around The National Centre for Writing at Dragon's Hall, and in previous years that's exactly what I have done - miss out. Determined not to make the same mistake this year, I dipped my toe into the series of conversations between authors taking place.

I’m not sure what I was expecting, but I assumed the show would operate on a primal, energetic, physical level as moshing. For me, it was quite the opposite.

The final words from Lewis Buxton lingered with me: “Poetry is a middle finger, it’s an orange with a knife in it, being drunk at a house party, almost kissing, a piano dropping from a 9th floor apartment"

Another wonderfully atmospheric music evening within the Adnams Spiegeltent.