The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
One of the UK’s most exciting young classical musicians will perform at Town Hall, a B:Music venue, for the very first time later this month. Isata Kanneh-Mason – who is the eldest of the seven musically prodigious Kanneh-Mason siblings – has won a place on ECHO’s Rising Stars touring series for the 2021-22 season, during…
A brand new jazz festival has been announced to be held in Birmingham this summer, along with the return of a free summer school course for local young people. The event is expected to bring live jazz to Symphony Hall’s redeveloped foyers in August, in partnership with Jazz FM.
The hotly anticipated fifth series of Peaky Blinders is returning to BBC One later this year, but for fans who can’t wait that long, BBC Birmingham and BBC One are hosting an exclusive world premiere in Birmingham. On July 18th, fans can come and watch the first episode before anyone else at The Birmingham Town…
Brothers Rizwan and Muazzam, nephews of the internationally acclaimed Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, exhibited a masterful qawwali performance at Birmingham’s Town Hall. Following on from their UK tour in 2017, the duo were back by popular demand and returned with new interpretations of qawwali – a form of Sufi Islamic devotional music.
Beatfreeks, the city’s art collective focused on increasing creativity amongst young people, has been celebrating six years of its monthly spoken word gathering Poetry Jam. Over 800 tickets were sold for the event in Birmingham Town Hall, where the main hall became a lounging chill-out zone for much of the night as spoken word performances and…
Birmingham-born and bred Saxophonist Xhosa Cole won this year’s BBC Young Jazz Musician over the weekend for what has been described as an incredibly “heartfelt” performance. The 22-year-old from Handsworth, Birmingham, played his way to victory beating four other finalists with a 16-minute set. Cole performed his own composition “Moving Ladywood” as well as “I Cover…