TUSK
Festival's tenth edition is almost upon us. A key difference this year is the virtual character
of the event. Its regular home for some years, Sage Gateshead, is currently
closed with the ongoing pandemic putting paid to any notion of 'business as
usual'. The festival will run from Monday 28 September through to Sunday 11
October. 
TUSK's
entire programme will be free to view online with a huge range of performers
contributing from across the globe plus hours and hours of films screened
during the fortnight. The jazz content is likely to be minimal, at best.
Several of the participants will be familiar to BSH readers including Roscoe
Mitchell (Art Ensemble of Chicago), Angela Bat Dawid, Matana Roberts and, from
closer to home, a quartet billed as Alderson/Champion/Gilby/
BBC
Radio 3, Arts Council England and Sage Gateshead are three of several
organisations supporting this year's TUSK Festiival. Corey Mwamba's APPJAG
award-winning programme Freeness (Radio 3, midnight Saturdays) and Late
Junction (Radio 3, 11:00pm Fridays) will showcase some of the many events
beginning with Late Junction's Friday 18th September broadcast looking at 'the
phenomenon of remote performances that have proliferated over lockdown'.
Further details of this year's TUSK Virtual Festival are
available at www.tuskfestival.com
Russell
No comments :
Post a Comment