The Proms 2021: your complete guide on concert dates and how to book tickets
At last, the Proms will welcome live audiences back to the Royal Albert Hall. Here’s our selection of the best concerts of the 2021 season
3 June 2021 • 1:43pm
Finally: music returns to the Royal Albert Hall
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Hallelujah – the 127th season of the Proms, long rumoured and much hoped for, is actually happening. Given the present weird circumstances, in which the Proms along with every other festival had to be planned amidst ever-shifting goalposts regarding social distancing and travel restrictions – not to mention the problems for visiting artists brought on by Brexit – it’s a very impressive rabbit that Proms director David Pickard has pulled out of the hat. And unlike last year’s season, which was entirely online (much to music-lovers dismay, who pointed to the proper in-person concerts happening elsewhere in the country) this one offers concerts for
On a farewell album to his beloved son, Steve Earle reprises ten of J.T.’s songs.
Barry Gibb and a host of Nashville stars offer “beautiful” country takes on the Bee Gees’s greatest tracks.
And Schoenberg’s
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J.T.
Justin Townes (“J.T.”) Earle, who died of an overdose in August aged 38, was a talented singer-songwriter cut from “the same mould” as his more famous father, Steve Earle, said Neil Spencer in The Observer. J.T. had the “same mix of Americana influences, the same wearied twang to his vocals, the same inspired way with a lyric” – and, alas, the same personal demons. On this farewell album to his beloved son, Steve Earle reprises ten of J.T.’s songs, and the results are made all the more moving by the fact that he “delivers the songs straight, only occasionally letting a sense of loss intrude”.