Music festivals
Latest news, reviews and blogs from music festivals around the world
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Frank Ocean to headline Lovebox 2017The enigmatic musician will play in Victoria Park in London in July next year, the first confirmed UK date following the release of Blonde
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T in the Park festival to take a year offOrganisers blame the decision not to go ahead with the music event in 2017 on regulations imposed in the wake of a change of site in 2015
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Wayne Shorter review – living embodiment of jazz geniusShorter’s quartet was delectable and articulate, then merged with Poland’s LutosAir for deft swaps between ensemble passages and improv
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Mullum music festival review – folk and fun amid a sea of dreadlocksNut farmers, Indigenous musicians and alt-pop pantsuit wearers share the limelight with a faux Russian folk choir at this small-town festival that spans Mullumbimby’s main street
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Herculanum/Vanessa review – Wexford makes a strong case for Barber's uneven operaThe Wexford festival opened with two contrasting works. Félicien David’s overblown opera about the eruption of Vesuvius was the less distinctive
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Five of the best young female jazz musiciansMatch&Fuse festival’s Dave Morecroft picks five women currently lighting up the contemporary jazz scene
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Christoph Prégardien review – an object lesson in Lieder singingThe great recitalist, with pianist Christoph Schnackertz, brought compelling weight to Oxford Lieder festival’s demanding Schumann Project
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Radiohead are confirmed as first headliners for Glastonbury 2017Band to make their first Pyramid stage appearance at Worthy Farm since 2003
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Bringing the hills to life in VerbierA music festival in stunning countryside makes the Swiss resort a great summer destination, says Gareth McLean
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Blick Bassy / Ngawang Lodup review – soulful African fusion and offbeat Tibetan storiesThe Kings Place festival hosted an intriguing jazz experimenter from Cameroon, then served up a football-mad Buddhist monk turned music star
Justin Bieber to headline British Summer Time festival 2017