Backstage: #Episode 28 Jon Hopkins, Gateshead Jazz festival and Holly Clarke
Backstage: #Episode 28 Jon Hopkins, Gateshead Jazz festival and Holly Clarke
Electronic music maestro Jon Hopkins; Gateshead Jazz festival’s Yazz Ahmed and Bex Burch of Vula Viel; and rising folk star Holly Clarke are among our guests this episode.
Electronic music maestro Jon Hopkins tells us how Brian Eno taught him to make mistakes on purpose; jazz trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed says that more needs to be done to give female musicians and composers the respect they deserve; Vula Viel band leader Bex Burch explains the title of their new album; young violinist Giulian Fabrizi describes what it’s like to perform on the stage of Sage One; folk singer Holly tells us how Summer Studios helped launch her career; and fledgling Silver Sambanista Elaine Henderson gives us a preview of a forthcoming performance.
Backstage is a regular podcast where we go behind the scenes for exclusive interviews and insights from leading and emerging artists who’ll be taking to the stage at Sage Gateshead, and discover some of the activities that take place, and the communities that meet there.