Tag: Music

Album Club: Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars

March 14, 2023

Who: The Civil Wars, a Nashville Americana band formed in 2008, and composed of country/rock singer and songwriter John Paul White, and Joy Williams, who started out as a contemporary Christian singer in her teens, before moving on to mainstream as adult songwriter. They met at a songwriting workshop organised by a Nashville record label, … More Album Club: Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars

Lately 

January 26, 2017

There haven’t been many weeks like this. Over the space of just seven days, I have seen Renee Fleming’s farewell performance at the Royal Opera, watched Simon Russell Beale play Prospero in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest, and finally listened to Martha Argerich play Prokofiev in the Sheldonian. I have been trying to write … More Lately