Our Music Our Freedom - Wandsworth London Borough of Culture

BBC Radio presenter, music producer and co-founder of Oily Cart, Max Reinhardt, interviews celebrity artists and under the radar local legends, to tell the story of Wandsworth’s diverse communities through 50 years of music. From 1970s reggae, 1980s hip hop, Bhangra and 1990s grime, to 21st Century indie, rock and electronica - dive into our jazz, folk, classical and South Asian musical heritage through the stories and memories of Wandsworth’s vibrant and influential music scene. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Our Music Our Freedom - Wandsworth London Borough of Culture is a music podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Our Music Our Freedom - Wandsworth London Borough of Culture, a music show with 12 episodes published.

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  Episode #13

  The Music Goes Round and Round

  Feb 25, 202650 minS0

  <p>Presenters: Rita Ray and Max Reinhardt</p> <p>A delicious mixed bag of goodies ends the Our Music Our Freedom podast series. We’re Featuring some standout musical highlights from Wandsworth's year as London borough of Culture: a world of East Asian sounds from the Celadon Club at Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival, some classic cuts from Wandsworth Music at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, working on a programme devised by students with disabilities. Additional tasty musical revelations from over the last 5 decade - savour the flavour of more of the borough's most iconic musical happenings in...

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  Episode #12

  The Fayre Feld Full of Folk

  Feb 25, 202639 minS0

  <p>Presenter: Max Reinhardt</p> <p>A story of Folk music in the borough over the last five decades, told by one of the UK’s most outstanding performers and songwriters, Lisa Knapp. Lisa was born and brought up in Balham and Tooting, where she learned to play and where her love of folk music evolved. Along the way, there’s a few words and a little music from the late and legendary Bert Jansch who lived in Putney in the ’70’s, song extracts from Anne Briggs, Shirley Collins, A.L. Lloyd, Martin Carthy and Imagined Village , to name but a few. L...

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  Episode #11

  Wellbeing in Wandsworth

  Feb 25, 202650 minS0

  <p>Presenter : Rita Ray</p> <p>Rita visits a number of Creative Health and Wellbeing projects in the borough, a key focus of Wandsworth’s London Borough of Culture year. Sensory theatremaker, Arti Prahsar, talks about her work and the way music is part of her practice, with excerpts from her contribution to the Culture Box archive, a sensory resource for use at home, produced by the London Health and Arts research project. Interviews, music and poetry from staff and members of unique music and art centre, Sound Minds, who work with people with lived experience of mental health problems.  South K...

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  Episode #10

  Cymande: The Greatest Band You’ve (probably) Never Heard Of

  Feb 25, 202649 minS0

  <p>Presenter: Max Reinhardt</p> <p>Cymande are a British band from Balham, originally active in the early 1970s. With a membership deriving from several Caribbean nations, Cymande were noted for their unique eclectic mix of music they called "nyah-rock" (Funk, soul, reggae, rock, African , Guyanan, and Jazz). The two founder members lived in the same street in Balham, Byrne Road, discovered a mutual love of music and created a band that has adoring intergenerational fans. They formed in 1971 ,released three albums before disbanding in 1974, completing USA stadium tours with soul and funk stars like the reverend Al Green. After...

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  Episode #9

  Wandsworth’s Jazz Buzz

  Feb 25, 202640 minS0

  <p>Presenter: Rita Ray</p> <p>Jazz stories and music from Wandsworth Music Academy including CEO, Dan White; Olly Blackman, Senior Jazz Orchestra Tutor; and players from the Senior Jazz Orchestra, Cicely (Saxophone), Aiden (Trumpet) and Tom (Guitar). Hear from acclaimed jazz pianist and Wandsworth resident, Julian Joseph, founder of Julian Joseph Jazz Academy, Wandsworth born and patron of World Hearbeat Music Academy; Nathan Dawkins, bass and clarinet player, student at World Heart Beat Music Academy from the age of 8, interviewed at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in Greenwich, where he is studying; and Soweto Kinch, Jazz sax and hip hop supremo...

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