Catch The Vocal Orchestra at E4 Udderbelly Festival at Southbank Centre until Sunday 27 May. Get tickets here. 

Popular nature and culture website Caught By The River celebrates it’s 5th year at Southbank Centre with a fantastic line-up of writers and musicians.

Caught By The River began in summer 2007 as a website based solely on a handful of passions shared by the people behind it. Angling, music, books, films, nature and pubs to name a few.

We’ll be posting passages, reviews, competitions and music over the next few weeks in the lead-up to the show.

Chris Yates – an angler, photographer and acclaimed writer will be reading from his new book Nightwalk, raises his gaze from his beloved rivers and ponds and takes us on a mesmerizing tour of the British countryside.

You can read an extract from Nightwalk on the Caught By The River website.

To buy tickets for this events and check out the full line-up, click here.

For a taste of the music, you can watch Eduardo perform on the BBC here:

And download the following tracks for a sneak preview of Eduardo’s unique sound:

“Rosie”

“Para Margarita”

“Saber Caminar con mi Soledad”

Hailed as one of the world’s greatest guitarists, the Spanish musician is renown for fusing his flamenco gypsy jazz roots with Arabic, Indian, classical and modern jazz influences to produce technically brilliant, unique and evocative music, and has collaborated with diverse artists from across the globe such as jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill, sitar maestro Nishat Khan, George Michael, Craig David, and trance group Juno Reactor.

Inspired by his gypsy upbringing, his adopted Yorkshire homeland and tours to India and the Middle East, Eduardo presents material from his latest album My Gypsy Waltz, released in January 2011, alongside music from his acclaimed 40 year career. Accompanied by his formidable trio, this is a chance to hear exquisite and world-class guitar playing at its’ best.

Eduardo Niebla, Friday 20 April, Queen Elizabeth Hall

For more information and to book tickets visit the website here.

Low’s most recent record C’mon was released in April last year, and garnered positive reviews across the board with Drowned In Sound praising it’s ‘impossible beauty and spellbinding drama’, while The Observer‘s 5 star review describes the band as ‘exquisite’.

Their last outing in London was a sell out show at Barbican Hall in April 2011, and was deemed a triumph by critics and fans alike, see Music OMH‘s 4.5 star review for proof.

You can hear a beautiful acoustic rendition of C’mon opener ‘Try to Sleep’ on the Soundcloud link below, exclusive to Southbank Centre.

Low also performed ‘Witches’ for The Guardian‘s ‘How I Wrote’ series, with Alan Sparhawk discussing the inspiration behind the lyrics and the instrumentation used in the song. Click here to watch now.

And if that’s not enough for your ears and eyes, here is a video of Alan and Mimi performing ‘Point of Disgust’ at Sacred Heart Music Center in Duluth, Minnesota.

Low perform at Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday 3 April, with support from Lanterns On The Lake. Click through to the website to buy tickets.

Anderson was nominated for a Best International Newcomer BRIT Award in 1995, she went on to tour alongside the hugely popular pop-funk-jazz group, The Brand New Heavies in 2000, and has worked with the likes of Paul Weller and 2008 Meltdown Festival directors, Massive Attack.

Sing Inspiration is put together by iGospel and has fast become the UK’s most dynamic soul & funk choral festival. Sing Inspiration Festival 2012 features 4 amazing concerts at Royal Festival Hall with over 3,000 young people and adults.

The two videos below should give you a little taster of what to expect.

You can buy tickets for the event by visiting our website.

In this intriguing clip, Micachu explains some of her innovative composition techniques…

Harmonic Series is curated by cellist Oliver Coates. The second of these concerts features the beautiful chamber music of Thomas Adès, complemented by the compositions and performance from Micachu. The concert is performed by Oliver Coates along with Micachu, Alexandra Wood, Tom Hankey, Max Bailie, Tom Lessels and Danny Driver.

Sunday 26 February, 7.45pm, Purcell Room

For more information please see the webpage here.

Listen to our Music Nation podcast giving you a taste of whats in store for Surrgoate Cities:

Also during the Music Nation weekend, experience a musical mash-up of jazz and classical with The Nu Civilsation Orchestra or enjoy a relaxed late-night concert plus DJ in the OAE’s The Night Shift.

If you thought you knew what orchetras were about, think again.

Living up to his father’s lofty reputation is no mean feat, but Vieux’s latest album The Secret has established him as an important artist in his own right. Often referred to as ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara’, Vieux heads up a new generation of contemporary West African music.

You can buy tickets for Vieux Farka Touré at Queen Elizabeth Hall by visiting our website.

We’re excited to announce one of two headline shows coming to E4 Udderbelly Festival at Southbank Centre in 2012.

The Vocal Orchestra, created by Shlomo, is a spine-tingling hour of incredible musical entertainment. A celebration of everyone’s favourite tunes using seven mouths, seven mics and no instruments!

Combining jaw dropping human beatboxing, glorious vocal harmonies and floor wobbling basslines, The Vocal Orchestra is a breathtakingly original show, written and created by internationally acclaimed beatboxer Shlomo, and performed by a company of the world’s most exciting beatboxing superstars.

This uplifting mash-up of intricate group beatbox routines and roof-raising interpretations of all-time classics will leave you whooping, clapping and dancing all the way home.

Check out this taster of what to expect…

Catch The Vocal Orchestra, created by Shlomo, at E4 Udderbelly Festival at Southbank Centre from Monday 9 April 2012. Get tickets here.

Here are some facts that you should know:

- He was an original member of  Magazine, a band that was at the forefront of the post-punk movement in the late 1970s;

- After the disbanding of The Birthday Party, Nick Cave asked him to become part of his new group Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and appeared on the first four NC&BS studio records;

- His tracks have appeared on soundtracks for David Lynch’s Lost Highway and Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, amongst others.

We are fortunate enough to have I Will Set You Free streaming from the Barry Adamson webpage, and you can also hear it below.

You can buy tickets for the show by visiting our website