Four Hungarian Groups Selected for English Folk Expo 2021
Four Hungarian groups including renowned Muzsikás have been specially selected to represent the Hungarian folk music sector at this year’s English Folk Expo (EFEx) and give a performance at the Manchester Folk Festival in October, the Hungarian Heritage House said on Friday.
Organised annually, EFEx and the Manchester festival are major international music industry and cultural events which promote professional folk music groups with focus on a country each year. The festival organisers officially announced on Friday that the focus of this year’s event will be on Hungary, the Heritage House said in a statement.
Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Sengalese kora player Seckou Keita will perform live at PAC next spring. This critically acclaimed and multi award-winning collaboration will be live at PAC on Saturday May, 21 next year at 7.30pm. PAC Director, Janet Farmer said: “Having seen this superb world music duo at English Folk Expo in Manchester in 2018, it is a privilege to welcome these BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners to PAC next year. Following the success of their debut release Clychau Dibonback in 2013, their long-awaited second album SOAR launched in April 2018. The album was nominated for ‘Album of the Year’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019, where Catrin and Seckou won ‘Best Group/Duo’ and Seckou was named ‘Musician of The Year’.
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Five Rochdale organisations to receive grants from govt Culture Recovery Fund Date published: 06 April 2021
Link4Life has been awarded grant funding from the Culture Recovery Fund. Pictured - Touchstones Rochdale, the borough’s Arts and Heritage Centre
Five Rochdale organisations are to be given a boost with government grants from the Culture Recovery Fund, to help the culture and heritage sector reopen and recover.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has announced that more than 2,700 cultural and creative organisations are to receive a share of £400 million as part of a vital financial boost from the government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund – which has been awarded through Arts Council England, Historic England, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the British Film Institute.
Lizzy Hardingham to play Folk at the Maltings online gig hertsad.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hertsad.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.